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• Answered a Question in Hamlet

  This question, whether or not to trust the ghost, is in one sense, the central question of the play because so many layers and aspects...

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  I think that one of the underlying intentions of Orwell, despite the harshness of the overall tone of the novel, is that he intends to...

• Answered a Question in Young Goodman Brown

  The forest setting and the path become increasingly symbolic with details such as " the dark wall of forest, an altar like rock,...

• Answered a Question in Hamlet

  Yorick was King Hamlet's jester. When Hamlet learns of this from the gravedigger and Shakespearean clown, this amazes him because of...

• Answered a Question in Hamlet

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