Essays on Ophelia Page 3

Act 1 scene 1. Hamlet, Claudius, Marcellus, Horatio, Barnardo. This is where the ghost is first seen by Horatio, Marcellus and Barnardo, representing that the King’s spirit is still alive as he is not yet at peace. I feel sympathetic for Hamlet as in the next scene everyone is mourning over the King’s death and…

Psychoanalytic Criticism According to a popular Freudian theory, children are sexually attracted to their parent of the opposite sex. Most of the time, the child ends up getting into relationships with people that are reminiscent of their parent of the opposite sex. In Hamlet, the main character, Hamlet, seems to be following this Freudian theory….

Evil For Evil’s Sake: An Analysis of the Nature of Evil In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet Jake West What is it to be good? What is it to be evil? The more important question would more than likely be whether the two are decided by man’s society, or worse, man’s morality. At one point in time…