.... seeing the ghost of the ex-King of Denmark, Hamlet’s father. The ghost becomes Hamlet’s counselor, guiding him through his everyday maze of depression and confusion. It is through the ghost of his father that he learns that Claudius, the new King of Denmark, is solely responsible for his father’s “foul and most unnatural murder” (I.v.26). He claims that he is told to seek revenge on his father’s murder by murdering Claudius. Hamlet sees the ghost at various times over the course of the play, appearing when he is in need of help. Hamlet’s condition persists, gradually getting .....

.... this state of madness...his intellect remains clear, his discourse sound and comprehensive,” (Harris, p. 129). Hamlet reveals to his friends and his mother of his plans to pretend act insane. He tells Horatio that he is going to "feign madness," and that if Horatio notices any strange behavior from Hamlet, it is because he is putting on an act. (I, v). Hamlet also tells his mother that he is not mad, "but mad in craft." (III, iv). In addition to his confessions, Hamlet's madness only manifests itself when he is in the presence of certain characters. When Hamlet is around Polonius .....

.... order to kill Antigone.  But then, Creon orders to take Anigone to a locked-tomb.  A blind prophet named Teiresias go with a boy visit Creon and told him what he did was wrong.  At first Creon did not agree, but then after Teiresias gone.  He realized what he did was wrong so he called his servants to release Antigone.  But it was too late, a messenger came with the bad news that Creons son had killed himself.  The story did not stop there, another terrible news came to Creon that the queen is dead.  When Creons wife heard the news of her own son killed himself, she put violence upo .....

.... free weekly and college newspapers across the country. It even developed a cult status (Varhola, 50). Life in Hell drew the attention of James L. Brooks, producer of such works as Taxi, The Mary Tyler Show, and Terms of Endearment. Brooks originally wanted Groening to make an animated pilot of Life in Hell. Groening chose not to do so in fear of loosing royalties from papers that printed the strip. Groening presented Brooks with overweight, balding father, a mother with a blue beehive hairdo, and three obnoxious spiky haired children. He intended for them to represent the typical Ame .....

.... and sadistic she was. She had absolutely no self- conscience, and thought nothing about the wrong they were soon to commit. Later on, after the murders, she, unlike MacBeth, still shows no signs of a conscience. She is very cool and collected, while MacBeth hallucinates and goes temporarily mad. Lady MacBeth on the other hand, takes everything calmly. She takes the daggers back to the King's room, smears blood on the drunken guards, and attempts to destroy all evidence of MacBeth ever being there. She knows what needs to be done and does it without any hesitation or fear. However, it .....

.... more real with characteristics like actual people instead of just actors. This however is not the only time that Shakespeare uses such a smart and original technique, although the second one is a little different than the first. At the end of the play one of the main characters, Horatio, begins to tell the story of to a group of soldiers. The audience can also be considered part of the group who he is talking to. This raises the question of whether the whole play was just Horatio telling the story and we were just being brought full circle. This is a nice touch to add, especially at th .....

.... for their influence, then Macbeth would have never turned his desires into reality. At the very beginning of the play Macbeth is nothing but a general fighting for his country. His fellow fighter's admire Macbeth, for in their eyes, and even in the eyes of the highest of authority, his nobility and couragousness is looked up to. His success for his acheivement is rewarded, and his confidence is made stronger because of this. But this is only the beginning, and soon these good fortunes will come to a tragic end. The audience is then introduced to a group of witches. Three witches wh .....

.... were out of harms way, namely his, he knew that his prophecy would not come true. He knew that as long as his father was still alive and he was married to a woman not even related to his mother, he would not bear the offspring that ³men would shudder to look upon.² It was the epitome of irony for Oedipus to know his fate, and try to avoid it with the ³knowledge² that he had obtained: "My father was Polybus of Corinth, my mother the Dorian Merope, and I was held the foremost man in all that town until a thing happened- -a thing to startle a man, though not to make him angry as it .....

.... of introduction; this creates a less obvious, yet more intimate initial interaction between the characters on the screen and the viewer in the seat. Foremost, Welles's legendary long shot opens the film. These three minutes and twenty seconds have many effects upon the viewer in introducing this movie. The primary purpose of this shot is to slowly draw the viewer in to the story by limiting the viewer's role in the film; he doesn't allow the viewer to actively enter the world of the film. Rather, he constrains the viewer to simply observe the actions presented without allowing the vi .....

.... can be a person or thing, that starts everything, and sometimes people don’t even realize that they are playing this part. In Romeo and Juliet, one of the causes is the ancient feud between the families. Tybalt says “What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues and thee.” (1.1.61-62) The second is the instigator, who is usually very mean, and something that they do or say, is usually the cause of conflict. What this person does or says is meant to provoke someone. Tybalt says to Romeo “Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford No better term than thi .....