Abstract
This paper is written in the form of a personal letter to Hamlet from Shakespeare's tragedy "Hamlet". The letter is designed to persuade Hamlet not to engage in his duel with Laertes, as it represents a passive-aggressive form of suicide and will damn his soul for eternity.

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"Dear Hamlet, I am writing to let you know I disagree with your seeming willingness to commit suicide. You are the Prince of Denmark and the presumed heir to the throne so I beseech you to find another solution to your problems than to seek vengeance on Claudius by engaging in a duel with Laertes. I think your view that your life is not worth a pin's fee is wrong and your death will doom your soul to damnation as it is a passive-aggressive act..."

Tags:Claudius, heaven, hell, revenge, forgiveness, betrayal, God

Abstract
This paper is written in the form of a personal letter to Hamlet from Shakespeare's tragedy "Hamlet". The letter is designed to persuade Hamlet not to engage in his duel with Laertes, as it represents a passive-aggressive form of suicide and will damn his soul for eternity.

From the Paper
"Dear Hamlet, I am writing to let you know I disagree with your seeming willingness to commit suicide. You are the Prince of Denmark and the presumed heir to the throne so I beseech you to find another solution to your problems than to seek vengeance on Claudius by engaging in a duel with Laertes. I think your view that your life is not worth a pin's fee is wrong and your death will doom your soul to damnation as it is a passive-aggressive act..."

Tags:Claudius, heaven, hell, revenge, forgiveness, betrayal, God

Abstract
This paper is an argumentative essay in the form of a personal letter to Hamlet, the protagonist of William Shakespeare's tragic drama. The argument tries to convince Hamlet to abandon his thoughts of suicide and take his rightful place as God's divinely chosen king of Denmark.

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"Dear Hamlet, The recent loss of your father and spectacular revelation that his brother, the very uncle who married your mother, is responsible for his murder has thrown your world into near madness. Thomas Marc Perrot maintains you are a perfect example of what can happen to a very young man who sees his entire support system disintegrate within a single moment. Your youth confuses you as you confront the death of your father and its implications. You believe your life is not worth a..."

Tags:betrayal, support network, immorality, sin, forgiveness, self-esteem, murder, heaven, eternity, psychology, grief, loss, secularism, Protestantism

Abstract
The paper analyzes Macbeth's letter and paints a picture of a loving husband being brutally honest about his feelings and desires to his wife. The paper then focuses on Lady Macbeth's response to this letter and shows how it reveals her greed and ambition, how she is smart and manipulative and prepared to do anything to get what she wants. The paper also highlights how Lady Macbeth knows that she is very much a powerful and influential force in this relationship.

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"Macbeth's letter to his wife and their response to it reveal much about the character of husband and wife. With Macbeth's letter, we see a loving husband corresponding with his wife being brutally honest about his feelings and desires. Macbeth sheds some light on the world he knows by allowing us to see his love, his ambition, and his intrigue with the Weird Sisters. Lady Macbeth's response to this letter reveals the dominant traits of her personality, which are greed and ambition. There is no doubt that love exists between these two people but we know from Lady Macbeth's reaction that it is not completely necessary. This couple works best when they feed on ambition and Lady Macbeth knows just how to get her husband to move."

Tags:ambition, manipulation, greed, cruelty, throne

Abstract
This paper examines William Shakespeare's comedy "Twelfth Night" and comments on the social context of Elizabethan society and the degree to which revenge is taken upon Malvolio. It looks at how Shakespeare makes fun of the Puritans, whose Christianity opposed the festivities so loved in Elizabethan society in "Twelfth Night" through Malvolio, the stuck-up steward that is totally opposed to fun as festivity. It analyzes the various forms of revenge as devised by Maria, Olivia and Sir Toby and discusses whether their actions do indeed go too far.

From the Paper
"Madness is a continuing theme throughout the play of Twelfth Night. Maria, Sir Toby and Fabian try to trap Malvolio in madness by acting in such a way as to convince him that they are right. Olivia, already distressed by Malvolio's actions towards her, believes that this might be true. In Elizabethan times, it was thought that to cure a mad person, they should be shut in a dark room until their sanity returned to them, and this is exactly what the plotters do in Act 4, scene 2. They treat Malvolio as though he is actually mad, and Feste joins the scheme, disguising himself as curate Sir Topas to torment Malvolio with his quick-witted tongue."

Tags:olivia, sir, toby, maria, revenge, letter, puritan

Abstract
This paper is an attempt to support the thesis that Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" is chiefly an exploration of the problems of existing in a deceptive and uncertain world. Through examining the strong plot of mistakes and concealments, the recurring themes of lying and error, the concerns of the supernatural and the afterlife, and the ending where only truth triumphs, the author attempts to prove his thesis.

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"In the realm of the rest of the world, there is also an overwhelming atmosphere of uncertainty. The political situation is discussed by all the main military leaders, as in Act I Scene ii, where Denmark has just come out of battle with Norway and may be attacked again by Fortinbras.
There is nothing stable in the outside world and Hamlet himself now knows that there is nothing stable in the Danish monarchy. The unrest of battle makes Hamlet's world even harder to live in.
The clearest statement of Hamlet's dilemma is in his most famous speech in Act III scene i, where he decides whether it is better 'to be or not to be'. He is considering the question of suicide and whether this is better than suffering a miserable life. However, even this is based in uncertainty, because there is always the possibility of the afterlife, which the Ghost, Old Hamlet hinted at as something terrible:"

Tags:hamlet, shakespeare, plot, murder, king, darkeness, father, death, ghost, mother, married, norway, battle, monarchy, danish, dream, madman, irony, ophelia, king, queen, letter, rosencrantz, guildenstern, victor, lying, motive, structure, language

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This paper explains that Lady Macbeth is essential to William Shakespeare's play "Macbeth" because, by using manipulations and love, she pushes Macbeth to commit his crimes. Next, the author analyzes the play to reveal Lady Macbeth's plan to reach the throne. The paper concludes that, even though there is no doubt that Macbeth is the villain in this play, Lady Macbeth is just as responsible for the murders because of her influence over her husband.

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"This is a clear example of how she will do whatever she needs to do to reach the throne even if it means belittling her husband. She knows that he wants to be perceived as a strong man rather than a weakling that is afraid of anything. Later in the play she tells him, "But screw your courage to the sticking-place/And we'll not fail" (I.vii.64-5). Here she attempts to convince him that the two of them are in this together, even though he will be the one responsible for the actual killing. This allows us to see how she is convincing him to act because he will be doing it for the two of them and they will enjoy the fruits of the kingdom together."

Tags:stronger, evil, letter, throne, murder

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This paper explains that, in Chapter 7 of "English in Practice", Peter Barry alludes to how much psychoanalysis is employed in literary analysis and especially the way detective work involves psychoanalysis, as exemplified in Edgar Allan Poe's detective story "The Purloined Letter". The author points out that psychoanalysis bridges the gap between fiction-reading and comprehension, which involves a kind of detective work, especially in the reading of detective fiction. The paper relates that Barry's allusion to "The Purloined Letter" in his interpretation of "Sonnet 73" shows that the connection between literary analysis and detective work is strong and important. The paper contends that Barry uses the prefect's methods of detection in "The Purloined Letter" in his analysis of "Sonnet 73" to say that the poem is about climate, nature and death.

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"The Prefect and his associate, the failed detectors, also appear as failed readers in their inability to "read" (analyze) the Minister D-- and his intellectual nature. Conversely, the Minister D-- appears as an astute reader and detector of the Queen's unusual behavior and literally an instant reader and interpreter of her lette. D-- also figures as a writer of the disguised letter. Dupin, the successful detective, is a successful reader of the disguised letter, and then figures as an equivalent author of a forgery or substitute signed by way of a literary allusion."

Tags:identification, reader, allusion, imaginative, seduction

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This paper examines "Romeo and Juliet", written by William Shakespeare, which is set in Verona Italy, where two feuding families, the Montagues and the Capulets, produce a pair of "star-crossed lovers". It looks at how within the play there are five events that drastically change the course of Romeo and Juliet's love: Romeo and Juliet's meeting; their marriage; the death of Tybalt and Romeo's banishment; Friar John being detained with the letter allowing Balthasar to inform Romeo of Juliet's death; and Romeo killing himself before Juliet awakens. It attempts to show how these events could be classified as the direct results of a character's action, an act of fate, or a combination of both.

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"Romeo and Juliet's first meeting is completely due to fate. Their families hate for one another would have made it impossible for them ever to meet unless there was another force at work. Romeo was originally infatuated with Rosaline, a woman who did not belong to either the Capulet or Montague family, and who would have nothing to do with Romeo. If the Serving Man of the Capulets had not approached Romeo to read the list of guests he was to ask to the party, Romeo would never have been aware that Rosaline was invited, which is the reason that induced him to enter the home of his enemy. This string of events and coincidences could not occur in a situation without fate, which sets up the rest of the play around the delicate relationship of Romeo and Juliet that under normal circumstances would not exist."

Tags:friar, john, montagues, capulets, tybalt

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"The Twelfth Night" is an example of how a play can function both as theatrical performance, and as literature. The Twelfth Night is a play based on gender impersonation and openly mocks the assumptions about feminine and masculine behavior or expectation. This paper focuses on Viola, and Olivia, as they are so clearly designed to complement and contradict (even through the names, which are different arrangements of the same letters.) As Viola impersonates the young man with whom Olivia has fallen in love, the differences in how Viola manages to speak as a man are as varied as Olivia's relations for speaking as a woman in relation to men.