Essays on Hamlet

The Shakespeare’s play Hamlet opens with the appearance of the ghost and it plays an important role throughout the performance. The role of the ghost is to sustain the plot because it is notified only by general terms “ghost”, ”spirit”, “it”, “this thing”, “goblin”. The...

Hamlet is a play written by William Shakespeare in the year 1601. The film illustrates the director’s interpretation which is seen for example Hamlet. It then influences the audience understanding of the play and its plot or genre, because they now see and understand the...

Shakespeare’s literary works are notorious for being complex in nature and with many layers of meaning hidden within characters actions, motifs, and the nature of the genre. Reality, like Shakespeare’s works but on an elevated level, is likewise very complicated and difficult to understand, because...

William Shakespeare is one of the most influential writers of his time. His ability to make a connection to the real world through the themes of his plays, is what makes him a master of literature. Throughout many of William Shakespeare’s plays there is a...

Both «A Raisin in the Sun» and «Hamlet» share one aspect of their plays in common: main protagonists with dead fathers and being in a conflicted relationship with their mothers. Without this particular part, the entire story will not make a sense to the main...

Antigone, Everyman, & Hamlet, each character from their own respective plays set out to accomplish a goal. Each of their goals differ greatly from each other and yet they all share a core theme; the inevitability of death. Each character, Antigone, Everyman, and Hamlet relate...

When applying the concept of hamartia to both plays, Antigone and Hamlet, it leaves to question what are the fatal character flaws in both writings that lead to such tragic endings? Antigone is by Sophocles and was performed during the time when the Athens and...