Harrison Friday Mr. Lamb 1/25/09 English 11 Honors Hamlet, in regards to the consistency of the character Hamlet is not nessicaily a flawed one but just an overly complicated one. There are so many drives and emotions pushing him in different direction that he eventually becomes misunderstood. Luckily with a large amount of thinking on the perplexing motives of Hamlet, one can certainly figure out that Hamlet character is a constant one, changing only in small and necessary ways. Hamlet, in most respects is just a product of his environment, contrary to the popular belief of Hamlet being a product of a poor character development. According to many writers and scholars Hamlet changes from a slightly melancholy character into a gloomy depressed character.
Both of these films, in particular the 2006 version, feature contrasting elements to the original play written by Shakespeare. Slight alterations to the plot, sometimes to give the storyline a more dramatic feel, are evident. A stark difference in the 2006 adaptation was the costumes and setting of the story. Instead of Scotland, the play is based in Melbourne’s modern underworld gangster setting. This essay will discuss in detail the differences between the three aforementioned versions of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Canterbury Tales Political Project: The Doctor for District Judge The tale the doctor chooses to tell is grim, and more than anything, depressing. He changes the theme of the tales from comedy to realism, possibly to show the harsh truth of the world around the pilgrims. The other pilgrims prior to the doctor had told narratives that were unconventional, but still contained some good-naturedness or comical acts. However, this was not the case for the doctor. It was evident that he wanted to pass off the message that the real world is not simply fun and games, and that “shite” happens.
Pamela Lora Ap Literature Period 2 10/29/09 “Oedipus Rex” Previously I have mentioned we have common flaws, one flaw that was pionted out in the play was selfishness. One of the characters that had that flaw was Teiresias, the soothsayer. In the play Oedipus calls Teiresias to come and see if he could see who was the murderer of king Laios. But Teiresias saw more than that but he didn’t want to be the one to tell Oedipus the truth. So Teiresias kept rebelling against Oepidus to let him go and not to bother him.
Although Hamlet’s thoughts and moods only got better with Horatio for other characters such as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Ophelia, and for Polonius and Gertrude, Hamlet’s mood and thoughts were drastically changed due to their spying. For Rosencrantz and Guildenstern they may be seen as receiving the worst
Of course MAAN follows Shakespeare’s traditional comedy structure but modern critics have their own agenda that a comedy, being such a complex genre, should conform to. Since the time of the ancient Greeks critics have struggled to define it, Plato described it as a series of events you would ‘blush to practice yourself’. Susan Snyder who writes for the Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Company, states that - ‘Comedy involves men of middling estate, its perils are small scale, its outcomes peaceful’. This is an excellent summary for the majority of Shakespeare’s plays; however it is not necessarily accurate in relation to MAAN. It is true to say that a comedy involves ‘men of a middling estate’, in MAAN the protagonists share the company of the Prince Don Pedro, and are socially superior to the watchmen such as Dogberry and Verges.
When English sonnets were introduced by Thomas Wyatt in the early 16th century, his sonnets and those of his contemporary the Earl of Surrey were chiefly translations from the Italian of Petrarch and the French of Ronsard and others. While Wyatt introduced the sonnet into English, it was Surrey who gave it a rhyming meter, and a structural division into quatrains of a kind that now characterizes the typical English sonnet. Having previously circulated in manuscripts only, both poets' sonnets were first published in Richard Tottel's Songes and Sonnetts, better known as Tottel's Miscellany (1557). It was, however, Sir Philip Sidney's sequence Astrophel and Stella (1591) that started the English vogue for sonnet sequences: the next two decades saw sonnet sequences by William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, Samuel Daniel, Fulke Greville, William Drummond of Hawthornden, and many others. This literature is often attributed
The Outcasts: The Stranger and Notes from Underground In The Stranger by Albert Camus and Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, we can see that the main characters in both novellas are outcasts; however, they are outcasts in different ways. In The Stranger, Monsieur Meursault is an outcast because he is indifferent to people’s feelings and to what happens in the world. In Notes from Underground, the unnamed narrator is an outcast because he has difficulty communicating with people. Unlike Monsieur Meursault, the narrator of Dostoyevsky’s novel is not indifferent to people or the world because he wants to be accepted and loved; whereas Monsieur Meursault does not care about what others think about him and he is unable to show any emotion. In Notes from Underground, the narrator shows emotion from the beginning of the story.
Hamlet is astronomically more thoughtful than Laertes, he thinks far too much before he acts, and it often leaves him with thought, but no action. Laertes is quite the opposite, he decides to act without thinking enough, he is rambunctious though well educated and sophisticated; he acts on internal instinct, and often forgets societal instinct as a means of reasoning. Evident of Hamlet’s ability to think and manipulate the emotions is during scene two of act two when he
The Impossibility of Certainty relating to Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead By: Isaiah Thomas Kolundzic The central theme revolving around Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is the impossibility of certainty. In Hamlet, the action and consequence the audience is expecting to happen is continually pushed off by the main character in order to gain more certain justification for what he is doing. The same concept is shown in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead with both characters not able to make meaningful choices due to the uncertainty of the overwhelming confusion of the world around them. Both plays approach this issue from different angles. Hamlet attempts to question the resources of information that we take for granted.