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Hamlet - College Essay

Hamlet

Great literary works retain their popularity as a result of many different factors. One such factor which can lead to popularity of a work, current or consistent discussion of a work's merits, can come into play when an author or playwright leaves questions unanswered in his work. In , William Shakespeare creates such a situation. As a result of the ambiguity of clues given throughout this play, critics may argue for or against the idea that Prince 's "antic disposition" put on as a facade to mislead the royal family pales in comparison to the disposition of 's lunatic mind, or in other words, that in fact truly succumbs to insanity. Evidence for this opinion can be derived from 's ...

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easily spawns such dramatic alterations in the prince's attitude. For example, when first suspects Ophelia acts only as the pawn for Polonius's ploys, he reacts rashly, bitterly denying that he ever loved her. "You should not have believed me, for virtue cannot so / inoculate our old stock, but we shall relish of it. I loved / you not" (3.1.117-19). This massive reversal in disposition is later contrasted by another reversal when leaps into Ophelia's open grave at her funeral to dispute Laertes and claim, "I loved Ophelia, forty thousand brothers / Could not with all their quantity of love / Make up my sum" (5.1.252-54). These abrupt mood changes also appear in 's relationship with his mother. He seemed to believe in his mother's purity and goodness, but eventually seems to hold a great mount of contempt for Gertrude, especially when he mocks her words, and then snidely proclaims: "You are the queen, your husband's brother's wife, / And would it were not so, you are my ...

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Added: 3/1/2008 09:06:55 PM
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