Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Hamlet Transformation

Hamlet makes a personality transformations in the play. When Hamlet first suspects that Claudius killed Old Hamlet, his father, he pretends to be angry. He pretends to be angry so the people around him will be scared. People around him find it normal and adapt to it though, they figure that since he did just loose his father and his mother just married his uncle that it was normal behaviour. The eventually believe that this is his normal personality, even though he is faking the whole thing. They all believe he is grieving and angry about the events, and that his personality changed when really he is just acting this way cause he suspects Claudius of killing his father

Hamlet Essay Outline

Thesis: Hamlet was mentally unstable.

Reason: He always wants to kill Claudius throughout the play, normal people to obsesses about killing someone.

Example: he keeps thinking about killing him, wondering about it.

Example: He won’t let it go, and in the end actually kills him.

Reason : He portrayed a wide variety of strange behaviour throughout the play, making him seem mentally unstable.

Example: A lot of people noticed he was acting strange, almost insane.

Example: He wanted to kill Claudius and he saw ghosts.

Reason: At one part of the play, he sees the ghost of his father, most sane people cannot see ghosts.

Example: Sees his fathers ghost at the beginning of the play.

Example: Later in the play sees him yet again, no a stable person.

Conclusion: Most sane people wouldn’t dream of killing someone, or seeing ghosts…

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Sunday, December 14, 2008

Essay

Hmm...8-12 page essay..almost done, will be posted in the following week, sorry for it being late but i hade trouble finding a thesis... Thanks :D