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        <title><![CDATA[Shakespeare's audience loved supernatural events, especially the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/hamlet/group/discuss/old-hamlet-an-hallucination-64741#4</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Shakespeare's audience loved supernatural events, especially the appearance of ghosts. The ghost of Old Hamlet must be accepted literally because it is through the initial appearance of the ghost that the antecedent action of the play is revealed to Hamlet, which acts as the inciting incident that puts the plot into motion. Hamlet could not have hallucinated the very specific information the ghost of his father communicated to him.
The ghost...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[So here's the end of the act:

 
HORATIO:
O day and night, but this is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[So here's the end of the act:

 
HORATIO:
O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!
HAMLET:
And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
But come!
Here, as before, never, so help you mercy,
How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself—
As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
To put an antic disposition on—
That you, at such times seeing me, never...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:33:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[At the end of Act 1, do you think Hamlet is responding normally or is he...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[At the end of Act 1, do you think Hamlet is responding normally or is he on the brink of insanity, would you consider him complex at this Point? Why?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 13:49:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's important to remember that, during Shakespeare's time, ghosts and...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/hamlet/group/discuss/old-hamlet-an-hallucination-64741#3</link>
        <description><![CDATA[It's important to remember that, during Shakespeare's time, ghosts and witches were believed in by lots of people. Don't take your skepticism about such apparitions with you when you go to see or read a play or other literary work of the sixteen hundreds or before. And let's face it; there are still plenty of people today who believe in the existence of witches, ghosts, demons, angels, etc. Yes, plenty.
The fact that Marcellus, Bernardo, and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 22:40:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hamlet is upset and feels his father's memory has been betrayed because...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/hamlet/q-and-a/how-does-hamlet-feel-about-his-mothers-choice-113791</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Hamlet is upset and feels his father's memory has been betrayed because it had only been 2 months since his father's death and she wants to marry his uncle. In addition he criticises her as being frail that she would need another man in her life so soon. He thinks her tears and mourning were fake. In addition, her new husband is not at all like her dead one. Hamlet is questioning if she really and truly loved him at all. And there is the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:04:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[From Hamlet's very fiyrst appearance in the scene, all dressed in black,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[From Hamlet's very fiyrst appearance in the scene, all dressed in black, we can tell that the prince is none too happy. And we can infer that he is not just upset and gloomy about his father's death, but also his mother's hasty narrige tot his uncle Claudius. Listen to this exchange between mother and son (Note, the little play on the word "common," delivered as a veiled slur to his mother) :

QUEEN:
Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:56:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does Hamlet feel about his mother's choice to marry his uncle? Why?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does Hamlet feel about his mother's choice to marry his uncle? Why?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:35:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[
Hamlet," in my opinion, is a language play; or, in other words, there...]]></title>
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Hamlet," in my opinion, is a language play; or, in other words, there are a lot of examples in this play where there are plays on the English language: Polonius' oratorial treatise on contemporary drama is a good, hilarious example. As to why Shakespeare indulges in so many puns, so many twists in word meanings in the play is a very, very interesting question. But I won't go into that. For now, let's concentrate on irony.
A definition of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:51:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[sorry, double post]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/hamlet/q-and-a/who-consider-soldier-play-hamlet-113621</link>
        <description><![CDATA[sorry, double post]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 17:50:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[As the play begins, it is nighttime and very cold, and two named...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/hamlet/q-and-a/who-consider-soldier-play-hamlet-113621</link>
        <description><![CDATA[As the play begins, it is nighttime and very cold, and two named characters (Bernardo and Francisco) and two unnamed sentinels are on watch on a platform of the castle of Elsinore, Denmark. Francisco, who was just relieved by Bernardo exits after speaking only a few lines. We never see him again in the play.
Strangely and ironically, the only other single soldier referred to in the play is Hamlet, who is not really a soldier. So we have...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 17:50:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Irony is typically manifest when you see something occur, or someone...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Irony is typically manifest when you see something occur, or someone behave, in a manner that is opposite to what we expected.  Irony in this speech can be seen in Hamlet's own musings as he reflects on his cowardly will to revenge his father, and on the army's brave will to die over next to no reason at all.  For a 5 paragraph essay, you will want to come up with three instances of irony, to discuss, one each, in the body paragraphs.  One...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:56:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In this speech, Hamlet is struggling with his own disgust for his own...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/hamlet/q-and-a/discuss-internal-conflict-dilemma-that-hamlet-113729</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In this speech, Hamlet is struggling with his own disgust for his own inaction in the matter of revenge against his uncle.  For the entire play, Hamlet has been procrastinating, hesitating, over-analyzing, backing out of opportunies, and coming up with excuses not to kill his uncle.  He could have done it over and over again, but did not.
So, as he stands on the battlefield and watches "twenty thousand men" go to their deaths over next to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:40:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Hamlet" discuss the irony in Hamlet's "How all occasions do inform...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "Hamlet" discuss the irony in Hamlet's "How all occasions do inform against me" (IV.iv.32) speech.
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:16:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Hamlet" discuss the internal struggle that Hamlet deals with in the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "Hamlet" discuss the internal struggle that Hamlet deals with in the "How all occasions do inform against me" (IV.iv.32) monologue.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:14:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[who is consider a soldier in the play of hamlet??]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[who is consider a soldier in the play of hamlet??]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:01:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The speech you cite occurs in Act IV, Scene 4 of Hamlet.
Just before...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The speech you cite occurs in Act IV, Scene 4 of Hamlet.
Just before Hamlet speaks these words, he has been talking a captain from Fortinbras' army.  He learns from him that Fortinbras and the army mean to fight over a worthless piece of land in Poland.
Upon hearing that, he starts to scold himself in the speech you're talking about.  His internal conflict is whether he wants to avenge himself for his father's death and his mother's dishonor...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:48:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Discuss the internal conflict/dilemma that Hamlet struggles with in this...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Discuss the internal conflict/dilemma that Hamlet struggles with in this speech.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:34:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You will find many answers and similar questions at the link below. Good...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/hamlet/q-and-a/hamlet-mad-113503</link>
        <description><![CDATA[You will find many answers and similar questions at the link below. Good luck!]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 07:04:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is Hamlet mad?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is Hamlet mad?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:38:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[If you would like to argue this point, it is necessary to account for...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If you would like to argue this point, it is necessary to account for the fact that, in the opening scene,  Horatio saw the ghost as well.  Throughout the play, Horatio is presented as a credible witness: philosophical, rational and knowledgeable;this makes it hard to claim that the ghost is just an illusion, but not impossible. For instance, one could claim that Horatio 'sees' the ghost in the beginning as an act of loyalty to Hamlet, but...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:51:29 PST</pubDate>
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