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    Somniloquy, also known as sleep-talking, can vary depending on the person at rest. Sometimes it consists of mumbling, incoherent sentences—but in Tom’s case, it includes literary analysis accompanied by bleeding from his eyes (“Sleep Some”) . Tom’s parasomnia is only one example of the peculiar situations found in The Truth podcasts. Each episode is based a short story akin to The Twilight Zone: the tales are dark and suspenseful, survey unusual circumstances, and incorporate thought-provoking…

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    In his play, Hamlet, Shakespeare expresses his worldviews through Hamlet’s thoughts. Hamlet’s first soliloquy in act one, scene two takes place after the decease of King Hamlet. At the age of sixteen, Hamlet is depicted as a young scholar who is sensitive about moral rights, but after his father’s death he is not given enough time to grieve as the world changes before him. After his mother marries his uncle Claudius, Hamlet has unnatural feelings towards his new parents. The unnatural…

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    This dialogue, spoken to herself after reading Macbeth’s encounter with the witches, plays on the importance of soliloquies and thoughts spoken out loud to characters themselves. This line from Lady Macbeth shows the viewers for the first time a look at her devious ambitions for her husband and her doubt in his ability to do what she believes needs to be done. She speaks that she fears the nature of his character is ‘too full’ of human kindness. This initial assumption is later solidified for…

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    Today I gave my daughter and son some advice on how to lie their lives to the fullest. I told my daughter to wait for marriage to lose her virginity and not to be a whore and not give it up just yet, I also told my son once he was off to college to stay true to himself and don’t to show off so others can like for the thing he has and to focus on his studies so that he can have a better life than mine. It’s been a month or two since the death of my best friend and King, his wife has moved on so…

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    William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a play full of madness, mystery, and death. Act I Scene II takes place in a hall in the palace where the king and queen’s recent marriage is being celebrated. At this time, it has not been revealed to Hamlet that Claudius killed the previous king. Queen Gertrude asks her son, Hamlet, why he is still wearing black and acting like he is still in mourning on such a “joyous” day. Hamlet’s reply not only reflects his feelings but also the atmosphere of the play and…

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    After murdering Duncan, Macbeth remained feeling distraught brimming with affliction shown in his soliloquy “Is this a dagger which I see before me” (II. i. 33) Shown in the soliloquies are the characters true inner most thoughts and imaginations. While Addition to feeling so guilty from his actions, Macbeth’s minding began to project voices that condemned him. Nearly no longer the frenzy of ambition and desire for power that originally shown in Macbeth’s plan to killing Duncan. In advance to…

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    Questions 1. Why do you take from this quote where Hamlet says “To be or not to be –that is the question:/ Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer/ The slings and arrows of outrageous fortunes,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles/ And, by opposing, end them.”(3.1.64-68). Here in this instance Hamlet is considering if life is worth living. He is weighing the options between life and death, with life being a dreadful mess that is cold in everywhere, and death being an escape from the…

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    Transparancy To Say less or to say more Barker being a student of History brings forth the crucial problem of revelation of Shakespeare in Hamlet and also knows the revealing face of murkiness of the story in Elizabethan culture. He uses powerful imagery of mirror throughout the play, mirror which is made of glass questions the truth in Elsinore. This mirror reflects the image that can not be seen It allows to see without being seen. Here Hamlet affirms the impotence of words : “ I’m saying…

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    were times, however, when Shakespeare failed at yielding such relationships. In regards to Julius Caesar, many agree that the soliloquies were not the most compelling (Shapiro, 292). Therefore, in this play, they were arguably less valuable. This is reasonable because many soliloquies in Julius Caesar (though not all) were heavily logos. For example, Brutus possesses a soliloquy in which he contemplates a sensitive topic, the murder of Caesar. However, rather than undertaking this reflection…

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