Essay 3: Hamlet

Throughout Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the main character (Hamlet) refuses to let go of the belief that his uncle killed his father so he could marry his mother. He only happens to believe this because at the beginning of the book his fathers ghost comes to him to tell him about the horrible crime and how to get revenge on this unspeakable human being. He carries on with this belief through the story, although toward the end the specific consequences for his actions will come into play.

Firstly, he holds a play and asks the actors to reenact his uncle murdering his father just so he could see Claudius’s response.  Seeing that his response was to leave the room and make details to send him to England, Hamlet is indeed correct in the details of the crime. Secondly, Hamlet is so strung out on killing his uncle that when he goes to speak to his mother, the Queen, there is a noise behind her curtain and Hamlet automatically assumes Claudius is eavesdropping. Immediately, he stabs Polonius through the curtain and he dies. This is consequence number one.

The next consequence is Ophelia. Hamlet acts to crazy toward her that she eventually drowns herself to get rid of the pain.

Next, Claudius talks Laertes into a fencing match with Hamlet. The plan was to kill Hamlet by taking the stopper off of the tip of Laertes sword and put poison on it and also if that didn’t work they were to put the poison in Hamlets water so he would drink it and die, either way. In the end, everyone else dies as a consequence.

Realism

George Eliot’s essay on realism is that of depression, sympathy, and the difference between the real picture and the one that most artists portray. The goal of realist artists was to show how life really was, as opposed to seeing a depressed person and possibly painting them happy. The author uses lots of detail throughout his essay that also gives great imagery and gives a kind of depressed attitude about the economy and the peasants and how the artists tend to portray them.

In the first paragraph George uses the description of what artists would like to capture, “the notion that peasants are joyous, that the typical moment to represent the man in the smock-frock is when he is cracking a joke and showing a round of sound teeth and that cottage matrons are usually buxom, and village children necessarily rosy and merry, one prejudices difficult to disslodge from the artistic mind.” Compared to what they really capture, “the slow gaze, in which no sense of beauty beams, no human twinkles, -the slow utterance, and the heavy slouching walk.” Everyone always takes pictures of people and peasants who seem happy but it’s very rare when the pictures show how depressed, heavy, hardworking, and tired they look.

The imagery throughout the entire essay is exquisite. When the reader reads the essay he/she can literally see the differences, see the peasants and duchesses, they can see everything, Especially

Lyve Lyfe

First, Carpe Diem stands for Seize the Day or Live Life. The two poems together talk about the fact that no matter how much you wish you were older, eventually you’ll regret wanting to know what’s going to happen in life. Also, they both say to live life with no regrets because once you get older you could look back on your life and wish you had made a different decision, done something daring, or even not done something. Carpe Diem has end-rhymes every line whereas To Virgins, to Make Much of Time has them every other line. The way Horace and Robert Herrick wrote their poems sounds like they are almost urgently trying to instill upon young people to live their life and seize the day before it’s too late to do those things. One main difference between the two is that Carpe diem seems to be more calm, depressing, and cautious about how it explains itself while Herricks’ poem is much more cheerful and uses lots of imagery while also talking about life and explaining that you should also fall in love before you get old because once you get old you will wish you had done things differently, too.

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