Mousetrap

As a child, I have always found joy in helping others out. After school, my friends and I would always roller skate and play street hockey for fun. I always wanted to be on Neil’s team as he was the best at roller skater out of our friend group. I remember on a Thursday evening, as the our street hockey match intensified, Neil skated aggressively and as a result ended up tripping on a rock. I saw his face clench as his elbow scraped the concrete floor. My impulse kicked in and I frantically…

This work, from the Early Renaissance period, ca. 1400s CE, titled Mérode Altarpiece is possibly by Robert Campin. Renaissance means rebirth. Instead in the natural and secular world after 1000 years of dictated Christian Church doctrine. Three goals of Early and High Renaissance are to represent the material world, to portray the human body accurately and to reproduce the appearance of the natural world in scientific ways using linear perspective and atmospheric perspective. During this period,…

performance starts in the context of Gertrude’s and not Claudius’s betrayal. This insistence on the behavior of the player-queen creates “an image of the moral censure passed on Gertrude by both Hamlet and the Ghost.” Correspondingly, during The Mousetrap play in the scene where the role playing the queen promises her husband that she will never remarry someone else and to love him forever, Hamlet responds to staged declarations “wormwood, wormwood” (3.2.180). Hamlet’s words refer “to the…

the hidden connection. One of the most notable examples of double entendres in Hamlet is the particular play that the players perform for the King. The entire play portrays precisely what Claudius did to Hamlet's father. Hamlet calls the play, "Mousetrap," inferring that Claudius is the rat. This gives the reader a look at Hamlet's more conspiring side, proving he may be capable of the retribution of Claudius.…

Yang 1 Angela Yang Mrs. Powers English AP 20 October 2017 The Play Within the Play Hamlet uses the play-within-a-play strategy to expose Claudius for the murder of the King. Hamlet is still unsure of Claudius being his father’s murderer so he plans a play, The Murder of Gonzago. Using this strategy, Shakespeare exposes the audience to how determined Hamlet was to find out the truth and how he manipulates the human mind to “give up” a reaction. Shakespeare adds this “inner” play to bring…

The king of Denmark is now dead, a new king has risen with the greed for power, and one child stays pure and gentle prince of Denmark. The kingdom of Denmark is now in the hands of King Claudius. However is he the rightful ruler of this beloved country? Or would the late king’s son makes for a much better king of Denmark? Hamlet would have made a great king of Denmark because he believed in his people, was not obsessed with power, knew what he believed in and sticks to it until it was achieved.…

Lying is something that we have all done, at one point or another in our life. Whether small or big, we have all lied either to protect ourselves, to spare someone else’s feelings, or to conceal an even greater act of deception. Some may even say that ling is an essential part to maintaining peaceful relationships. Though this, to a certain extent, may be true, it is also important to recognize the tragic consequences that lying can have. A lie, whether intentional or not, can become the source…

Throwing a Bone: 2001 There are some powerful scenes that precede the bone throw in Kubrik’s masterpiece, 2001. A man-ape learns to use a bone casually. The man-ape uses other bones to clobber things—this is intercut with images of huge animals falling--and suggests the man ape realizes a bone can be a hunting tool. During an intertribal intimidation fest, a bone is used to intimidate and then to kill a man-ape from an enemy tribe. The users of bone win the battle. As the winning tribe revel…

anything he can do about Hamlet’s madness to make it better. Hamlet is spying on Claudius to see in what way can he make Claudius figure out that he knows and make him feel guilty for killing his father. He does this with the play by renaming it “The Mousetrap” and adding the scene that very closely resembles how the murder happened.…

fully awareness of what is going on and is just toying with Claudius for his own personal pleasure. 2. Hamlet says: “The Mousetrap. Marry, how? Tropically. This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna” (3.2.261-262). When Hamlet is asked what the play is about, he gives this response. The significant part of what he says is in the title of the play, The Mousetrap. The name is actually quite clever, since it subtly gives away Hamlet’s true reason for showing the play. He wants to use…