What do you find interesting about the Imagery in Hamlet Metaphor's, similes and personification are common to Shakespeare's art in general and Hamlet is no exception. The imagery in Hamlet is the vehicle Shakespeare uses to create interest for the audience, and is the fundamental part ...

A tragedy can be defined as, out of the ordinary events that happen to ordinary people with extraordinarily negative consequences. Tragedies deal with the faults and weaknesses of men, and how these can bring about a dangerous, desperate end. Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, is a perfect example of...

Hamlet vs. The Lion King vs. Gladiator The idea of revenge has existed in human nature since the dawn of man. It is human instinct for a person to want justice served on another person who has hurt, physically or mentally, that person. Many literary works use revenge as a main theme for the ...

• The soliloquy begins with Hamlet's thoughts on how time is running by and he still hasn't done anything. He says:And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,If his chief good and market of his time (Hamlet IV.iv. 32-35) • In these lines Hamlet is thinking about all the time he has wasted i...

Hamlet infamously declared 'Frailty, thy name is woman' (1.2.146). To a modern audience this may seem deplorable, however Elizabethan philosophy relied heavily on the grossly misogynistic Great Chain of Being. Gertrude and Ophelia, as the only female characters in the play, provide us wit...