There are many acts of betrayal that occur throughout Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The most significant betrayals occur between Hamlet and his family members and close friends. Hamlet is betrayed by his mother, Gertrude, when she remarries his Uncle Claudius just two months after Hamlet’s father, King Hamlet, dies. Hamlet is also betrayed by his best friend … Read more
Clip 1, “Task 2 Engaging Class Discussion,” illustrates a time during my lesson that I engaged students to construct meaning from two film adaptations of the same scene, Act 3 Scene 4, from Hamlet. I engaged the class by asking questions to draw inquiry, and it initiated a class discussion, where students were drawing on … Read more
‘A View from the Bridge’, by Arthur Miller, is a play which explores the theme of obsession. Set in 1940s Brooklyn, the play is based upon the lives of the Carbone family and, in particular, focuses upon longshoreman Eddie Carbone’s unhealthy obsession with his seventeen year old niece Catherine. A modern version of a Greek … Read more
Smiles that Faded Deception that Killed William Shakespeare utilized acts of unforetold love, treachery, revenge, and deception that helped to develop works that have been highly praised for centuries. In Shakespeare’s drama Hamlet, he continues to use these tools to unfold a story that reveals the questionable sanity of the main character, Hamlet. While Hamlet … Read more
As the final scene comes into play, we are introduced with Hamlet and Horatio in a hall in the castle. In the hall, Hamlet tells Horatio what had happened while he was away at sea. He tell him that for some time, he could not sleep due to his curiosity over Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s cabin. … Read more
The root of the madness of Shakespeare’s Hamlet has been debated by literary scholars for centuries. There have been scholars who believe Hamlet is an ignorant child who acts based on his emotions. Others say Hamlet was actually cunning by using his madness as a cover for his revenge, or Hamlet might not have been … Read more
The world is constantly destroyed externally by environmental factors, yet it is also destroyed internally by acts of evil. While there are only so many ways humans can mend what those external factors inflict on the world, there are concrete measures humans can take to restore what evil does to this world. One of those … Read more