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    After reading "The Author to her Book," it helps to know about the author's background. Anne Bradstreet wrote this poem after she had received her recently published book. The problem was that she did not want her book published. In her eyes, it was unfinished and full of mistakes. In the poem, she treats the book as a child and uses a satirical tone. Her choice of words and tone are very important to the theme of the poem. Some readers, mainly logical, would think that the author is simply talking

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    In "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" by Andrew Lang and "The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Anderson, both protagonist's pursue the object of their desire. In "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp," there's a protagonist named Aladdin, who is the son of a poor tailor. One day a magician approaches Aladdin by disguising himself as his uncle. The magician ends up taking advantage of Aladdin by using him to get a wonderful lamp. Aladdin without not knowing anything about the wonderful lamp goes with the

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    time when Shakespeare's wrote the play "The Tragedy of Hamlet'", madness had already been established as an element in several revenge tragedies. Hamlet's revenge tragedy is unique as it is clear that he has a motive. Hamlet is a threat to Claudius' authority whether sane or insane and his assumed madness gives justification for his actions. Helmet obviously has some planned tricks and has thoroughly considered his feigned madness. Although Hamlet had gone through tragedies of his father's death

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    In the play “Hamlet”, Shakespeare portrays the series of unfortunate events that develops into tragic characters and illustrates the symptoms of madness through Prince Hamlet and Ophelia while identifying the difference between genuine madness and feigned madness. The difference in madness and sanity is subject to change depending on the circumstances and one’s actions depicted through Hamlet’s tone in the play. Hamlet confronts his mother, Queen Gertrude, on the actions and decisions that she made

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    Madness in Literature In literature, madness is portrayed in different ways through the unique lens of an author’s analysis. Many times, the narrative exemplifies the intersection of sociocultural themes or attitudes of the era in which the story was written. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman both demonstrate this effect through their depictions of exclusion from society. Each of these fictional stories represent a type of madness that occurred

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    The definition of madness is as stated " The state of being mentally ill. Exsteremly foolish behavior. Or a state of frenzed or chaotic behavior." Have you ever exspirenced any of this symptoms? One would hope not. Clearly being mad is a dangerous state of mind. This dangerous and foolish behavoir that gradually turns into an illness of the mind is exsactly what Shakspear tackles and presents through out his works in Hamlet. In a personal perspective it is believed that Shakspear made Hamlets actions

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    Denmark, trying to figure out the mist behind his father’s death. By talking to his father’s ghost, Hamlet realizes that his father, King Hamlet, was killed by his own uncle, Claudius” (Kara 2). Throughout the play, the theme of madness often occurs from multiple characters. Madness can be defined as a mental disability or a pathological condition of the mind eliminating all rational thoughts caused by an unthinkable injury. These injuries could sometimes be hard to understand, but they can occur in a

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    Madness Vs Madness

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    1. The entire relationship of mental illness and madness and where they stand can be easily identified the past versus the present. Mental or psychological illness, is more commonly seen in today’s society and norm’s, where as madness still occurs yet has a completely different meaning. Madness originally took on the role of a disability, and madness was a concept, that those before us thought, which answered what mental illness truly was. The relevancy between these two concepts are important too

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    Polonius’. This act articulates Hamlet’s madness in his seemingly dismissive response to his murder of Polonius and the contemptuous treatment of his body. Hamlet through characterisation dehumanises Polonius as merely a “wretched, rash, intruding fool” who he will “lug the guts [of which] into the neighbour room”. Ultimately, Shakespeare characterises Hamlet as mad through his lack of remorse over his murder of Polonius. In these Scene, Hamlet’s madness is further conveyed in his verbal engagement

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    However, Hamlet still did not reveal the main cause behind his madness to them. Furthermore, Hamlet was not very open to their questions. Because of this, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were not able to achieve much from their visit. Polonius gives Ophelia a book to read. The book will make Ophelia appear like she is alone in the room. In addition, Polonius believes that Ophelia being alone will make Hamlet less suspicious of his surroundings. Polonius states that people often sugar themselves by

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