Mousetrap

“I mean the catapult already looks bad, it couldn’t get worse, right?” But as it goes, of course it would get worse. On the third launch, the spoon snapped off, and due to the amount of power the mousetrap brings, it sent vibrations to the rest of the foundation of the catapult which ended up making it fall down and break. Talk about unlucky. We kind of didn’t know what to do. The catapult was due the next day, there were ten minutes left to the period…

and say, “Yes, sure. Partly.” Lets say Hamlet is about indecision? Of course. Partly. But what does Ophelia’s “O what a noble mind” speech have to do with indecision? Some will argue the play is about decay. Sure. At some points. But what does the Mousetrap have to do with decay? So I set down and I made a list of some of the major topics the play explores: 1/ Revenge. The play begins with a request from the ghost of king Hamlet; it ends with that action completed (Claudius's…

Both Hamlet and Laertes strive to avenge their father’s demise. Hamlet’s father, the previous king, was killed by his brother Claudius. Despite his initial drive to take revenge, Hamlet tiptoes around his current course of action for quite some time. He conjures up some detailed and heart-wrenching soliloquies as a result of this. Hamlet is resentful at his own reluctance to act. He blames it on his cowardice. Although Hamlet believes it is his pusillanimity at work, it seems as though his plan…

Captivating, the only word that comes to my mind when I think about “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. This twisted tale has captured my eye and is a great page turner. This story is about an average village with an uncommon ritual. At one glance a reader might misinterpret the story. To understand the message that the author is trying to send, you must re-read the story multiple times. After numerous reads I have come to a conclusion regarding the theme, repetition of tradition forces you to…

“To be or not to be: that is the question” (3.1.56) when analyzing the appearances of the characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. A major theme that encircles is the discrepancy between what something appears to be and what it is in reality, or what is false and what is true. This is mainly apparent in Hamlet’s character that is very complex due to the perception on whether he is mad or not. The theme of semblance is heavily intertwined throughout the play because each character portrays a…

calendars. Another stereotype was the Mafia, shown when Alberto gets transferred to the south to Castellabate. Alberto loaded his car with fire extinguishers, a sunscreen with a high protection (for the sun), body armour (for the mafia and theft), mousetraps (for the “giant” rats), and have hidden the wedding ring of gold, and its clock value. Alberto discovered that the post office opening hours catered for the…

Dial R for Revenge Revenge is a model embedded in our society since the earliest of times. It is a justice that evades the bounds of formal law and almost always undertaken responding to a grievance. To break revenge and its justice down to its simplest terms would be to illustrate the act as a cycle imposed with the result becoming an alliance with power. One character loses control, eventually taking this affair into their own hands, performing the act of revenge, which causes the one whom…

king, however, he sometimes appeared to get a little too caught up in his act of insanity. At times, though it may seem that Hamlet has gone truly mad, he is still aware of his actions. When he is talking to the Queen after the performance of The Mousetrap, he stabs and kills Polonius. Though he meant to do this, he wasn’t aware that it was Polonius behind the curtain - he thought it was the King listening in on their conversation, instead. As much as he disliked Polonius, he wasn’t aiming to…

regards to the play, the characters’ thoughts, convictions, and ultimately, their actions, is revenge a good act. Hamlet decided to stall and investigate before taking any actions after knowing the truth of his father’s death. Hamlet plans the Mousetrap to determine whether Claudius is guilty of murdering Old Hamlet, “The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps, Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent…

A mouse or rat, drawn to heavily resemble the racist stereotypes of Japanese appearance, is trapped and presumably killed by a mousetrap labeled “Material Conservation”, with the caption of the poster being “Jap Trap”. The message is simple; if Americans wish to put a stop to the “yellow peril” after Pearl Harbor, then they should conserve more of their goods and be less wasteful. This War War II propaganda poster was created by the United States Information service, and was probably put into…