Shakespeare by Hayden Sherwood

Modern Pop Culture (The Lion King) 🦁

Addie230 — 2024-02-23 21:27:05 UTC

The classic Disney movie, The Lion King, is not exactly based on Hamlet, but they do draw similarities. The King of the land gets killed, King Hamlet and Mufasa, by their brother Claudius and Scar. Both brothers then cover up the murder and are able to rule. Scar makes Simba leave, and Claudius marries the Queen. Both of the dead father's also appear as ghosts, Mufasa is telling Simba to follow his birthright and King Hamlet is telling Hamlet to kill Claudius. There are differences though, in The Lion King Simba is sane, whereas Hamlet is teetering on the edge of sanity. Another massive difference between the two is that Hamlet dies and Simba does not. Though Simba was supposed to die in the original writing. While the two definitely have similarities, The Lion King was not Based off of Hamlet.

Character Connections Analysis

sherwoodhr — 2024-02-23 21:27:36 UTC

Hamlet is mad at Claudius, his uncle, because he thinks he murdered his father, Old King Hamlet. Because of this Hamlet hates/despises/is against Claudius and creates tension between them. This impacts Gertrude, Hamlets mother and now Claudius's wife., because she has to deal with the tension and being in the middle.

Polonius doesn't trust Hamlet because he doesnt think that he truly loves Ophelia, his daughter, and he tells Ophelia to be careful. This impacts the dynamic between Ophelia and Hamlet.

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Post Colonialism theroy (Addison lesher)

lesherag — 2024-02-23 21:47:13 UTC

The Post-Colonialism lens through Hamlet by Shakespeare. The main part of this analysis is the abuse of power, injustice, and conspiracy. This is shown a lot through the main character Hamlet who shows lots of those attributes.

Analysis on Ophelia

Addie230 — 2024-03-03 19:05:29 UTC

Ophelia is Hamlet's love interest throughout the play, and the daughter of Polonius. Throughout the play we don't see a lot of her. When she looses her father, she starts to go "insane". She sings to Gertrude and Claudius, and then dies in a lake. Throughout Hamlet Ophelia is put under more and more pressure. Her father, Polonius, gets angry with her, she is used as a spy, and Hamlet becomes hostile with her. All of this leads to her suicide.

Rosemary Etymology

sherwoodhr — 2024-03-04 21:41:21 UTC

In Act 4 Scene 5 Ophelia is essentially taking about the sweetness of life and how she misses her father. Everyone is talking about how she's essentially gone insane but she's just in her own little world. The she says "There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember." This is one of the very last things she says before she dies. According to Online Etymology Dictionary, "rosemary is a symbol of death and mourning, and so foreshadows her impending death". I feel like this was her way of saying goodbye.

Poem Connection (Addison Lesher)

lesherag — 2024-03-06 17:00:21 UTC

This poem talks about how people all want to be Hamlet or they all want to play Hamlet. Not really in the sense of getting on stage and playing Hamlet speaking his lines and having a crowd cheer for them. It is more in the sense that these people who love Hamlet look at him because his story is sad. His life is a heart-wrenching story. While many people may not have had the things he had done to him they seem to be able to relate to his pain. They want to play him because they can relate or maybe they are already playing him.

Setting Analysis (Addison Lesher)

lesherag — 2024-03-08 19:38:13 UTC

Hamlet takes place in Denmark around the late medieval times. Denmark around this period was finding their social classes so it was a great time to be a kingdom or a prince like Hamlet was. This meant that the royalty was at the top of the social class right below the gods. The only big difference between Hamlet to the real world was that almost everyone still believed in Norse mythology. While in Hamlet they talk a lot about Jesus and God.

Claudius Character Analysis

sherwoodhr — 2024-03-08 20:52:29 UTC

Throughout the play Claudius hurt many people, both emotionally and physically. Before the play even started, Claudius killed his very own brother, which we can only assume was due to either wanting the power of being king or to have Gertrude. It does seem like he loves Gertrude, but he cant be completely honest with her because he killed King Hamlet. In order to keep his secret, and power as king, Claudius ends up both physically and emotionally hurting multiple people. He sends Hamlet away, which couldn't have felt good to Gertrude even if she "agreed" with sending him away because he's crazy. In the last few scenes he is plotting Hamlets death, which doesn't go to plan and Hamlet, Gertrude, Laertes, and even himself ends up dying.

Feminist Critical Lens

Addie230 — 2024-03-09 20:04:24 UTC

Throughout Hamlet we see how all of the characters interact with one another, in specific we see how Ohpelia and Gertrude get brushed to the side. In the play Hamlet often refers to women as “frailty”, Hamlet has a whole soliloquy called “Frailty, thy name is woman”. In the soliloquy Hamlet is saying that his mother has weak morals since she married her late husband's brother. Before his father had died Hamlet had been with Ohpelia. After King Hamlet died Hamlet was in shock that his mother could be so weak, he started acting cold towards Ohpelia since he saw all women the same now. He begins to act more and more violent towards Ophelia, and as all of this is happening Ophelia begins to be put under more pressure. She is used to spy, she is manipulated by Polonius, and now Hamlet is cruel toward her; someone who has always been sweet to her. All of this leads to her suicide. Throughout Hamlet the woman, Gertrude and Ophelia, are constantly seen as weak and frail.

Hamlet Character Analysis (Addison Lesher)

lesherag — 2024-03-12 15:46:25 UTC

Hamlet is known as a tragic character. Hamlet is the prince of Denmark and is the son of Gertrude. Hamlet is known as this tragic character because of the recent death of his father. He is full of hatred because his mother shortly after his father's death got together with his uncle making his uncle the new king. Hamlet is driven by the madness of seeing his father's ghost and trying to prove that his now stepfather killed his dad. He used to be known as a thoughtful and smart young man but after his father's death, he started to be very rational and impulsive.

Art Analysis (addison Lesher)

lesherag — 2024-03-12 16:08:33 UTC

This art piece was created by John Everett Millia. This piece is known as an iconic piece representing Ophelia. This painting was made in 1852. He wanted to represent the death of Ophelia in his eyes. The model in this painting also had a tragic death eventually as well she had overdosed on opioids in 1862. As well the model almost died from how cold the water was while the artist was painting this.

Analysis on Gertrude

Addie230 — 2024-03-14 21:43:37 UTC

Gertrude is Hamlet's mother and the wife of recently passed King Hamlet and Claudius. Throughout the play Gertrude uses the men in her life to fulfill her self-preservation instincts, which has made her super dependent on the men in her life. In Hamlet's soliloquy, "Frailty, Thy Name is Woman", Hamlet talks about how the women in his life are morally weak. Gertrude fits this stereotype, she never exhibited the ability to think critically in any situation; instead she would stick with the safe and easy options. Overall Gertrude was a woman who had weak morals.

Opinion Piece

Addie230 — 2024-03-14 21:55:56 UTC

Throughout Hamlet the women are seen as morally weak or just weak. Hamlet was written in 1600, in the 1600s women at the time were also seen as weak. A lot of what people believe is based of off social media, these plays were that form of social media. Since people saw that the two women in this play are both frail and made to be smaller, this probably led to many people seeing women as being weak. Since it was the 1600s women were supposed to be quiet and polite, Gertrude and Ophelia both held up to that. Neither of them had much to say, they would just take it.

works cited (all three of us)

sherwoodhr — 2024-03-14 22:00:00 UTC

“'Frailty, Thy Name Is Woman': Meaning & Context Of Phrase✔️.” No Sweat Shakespeare, https://nosweatshakespeare.com/quotes/famous/frailty-thy-name-is-woman/. Accessed 8 March 2024.

Gillespie, Tim. “Hamlet, A Feminist Lens - 890 Words.” Bartleby.com, https://www.bartleby.com/essay/Hamlet-A-Feminist-Lens-FKB4UXADCKDQ. Accessed 8 March 2024.

Shakespeare, William. “Gertrude Character Analysis in Hamlet.” SparkNotes, https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/hamlet/character/gertrude/. Accessed 14 March 2024.

“PSYCHOANALYSIS AND HAMLET.” Blogspot - STEPHANIE TRINIDAD, 3 June 2009, https://stephanietrinidad.blogspot.com/2014/12/psychoanalysis-and-hamlet.html. Accessed 11 March 2024.

“Rosemary.” Online Etymology Dictionary, 3 June 2009, https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=rosemary. Accessed 4 March 2024.

S., EMILY. “In William Shakespeare's Hamlet the character Hamlet can be described as a Renaissance Man. Why?” MyTutor, https://www.mytutor.co.uk/answers/25801/A-Level/English-Literature/In-William-Shakespeare-s-Hamlet-the-character-Hamlet-can-be-described-as-a-Renaissance-Man-Why/. Accessed 14 March 2024.

Shakespeare, William. “How the Renaissance Affected Hamlet | Free Essay Example.” StudyCorgi, 21 March 2023, https://studycorgi.com/how-the-renaissance-affected-hamlet/. Accessed 14 March 2024.

Steven, Isabel. “Rosemary for Shakespeare – The Rosenbach.” Rosenbach Museum, 22 April 2022, https://rosenbach.org/blog/rosemary-for-shakespeare/. Accessed 5 March 2024.

Psychoanalysis Critical Lens

sherwoodhr — 2024-03-14 22:24:58 UTC

The Id in Hamlet is impulsiveness and his desire to kill Claudius to avenge his father and when he murders Polonius.

Superego is the logic and reasoning psyche and it is what prevented hamlet from taking drastic measures and to put on the play to see if Claudius actually did kill King Hamlet.

The Ego is the part of Hamlet that protects himself and prevents him from doing all the impulsive decisions from the Id. One example of this in Hamlet is when Hamlet decides to not kill Claudius while he is praying.

Hamlets connection to the Renaissance Era (Non-Fiction Topic Connection)

sherwoodhr — 2024-03-15 00:34:05 UTC

Hamlet was written during Renaissance, and while Shakespeare tends to stray away from his time period, the Renaissance time period can be seen in multiple aspects of Hamlet. Hamlet is more "Renaissance" than the majority of the other characters. This can be seen especially in his ways of thinking. An example being his Humanistic and nihilistic views. Humanistic views is a philosophy that was becoming popular in the Renaissance, essentially "the belief that man has beauty, worth, and dignity." Nihilistic views is the "Renaissance perspective that sees life has having no purpose". His nihilistic views can best be represented in his to be or not to be soliloquy.