Nothing is simple and direct in Hamlet. Explain

Unlike the other major tragedies, Hamlet poses certain grave problems. Dowden says that “it must not be supposed that any ...
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The play Hamlet is a problems. Discuss

Shakespeare has not removed the superfluity. “Both workmanship and thought are in an unstable condition.” Shakespeare, Eliot thinks, must have ...
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Character Analysis Of Ophelia in Hamlet by Shakespeare

Hamlet made love to Ophelia in an honourable fashion but he seems to have made a wrong choice. Ophelia could ...
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Explain The Comic Element In Hamlet

The classical critics never encouraged the mingling of the tragedy with the comedy. Philip Sidney condemned the practice of the ...
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Character Analysis Of Horatio in Hamlet by Shakespeare

“…. For thou hast been As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing; Hast ta’en with equal thanks; and blessed ...
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Character Analysis Of Laertes in Hamlet by Shakespeare

Laertes would be a Polonius but more sagacious and shrewder if he were to grow old. Polonius might have been ...
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Character Analysis Of Polonius in Hamlet by Shakespeare

Polonius is a blundering, blithering fool, though he knows himself to be a very wise and astute politician. He has ...
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Character Analysis Of Claudius in Hamlet by Shakespeare

Claudius is the villain of this Play. He murders Hamlet’s father. Seduces his mother, and ascends the throne to the ...
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Character Analysis Of Gertrude in Hamlet by Shakespeare

Gertrude is again a woman without character and individuality. She might seem to be partly responsible for the course of ...
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Character Analysis Of Hamlet in Hamlet by Shakespeare

We have covered the many-sidedness of Hamlet’s character above. That Shakespeare put something of himself into Hamlet is not an ...
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