Hello! I'm having a little trouble on my Hamlet essay and was wondering if any could help. The question is "whose mind is pulled in conflicting directions by two compelling desires, ambitions, obligations, or influences." Then I have to identify those 2 conflicting forces. I didn't read Hamlet that well so if anyone could tell me which character best matches that, I would really appreciate it! Thank you!
Do your own homework.
Originally Posted by Night_Lamp
yup. yup.
lmao
I'll give you a clue for the first half of the question, it's in the title.
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
I was also gonna say: do your own homework.
One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.
"Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)
Go back and read it again, more carefully. Read some analysis of it, you can find a lot online, to help you understand it. You probably should have paid more attention in class.didn't read Hamlet that well
Bottom line:
Agree!!
The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.
- Margaret Atwood
Read a synopsis, a summary of what happened, then read the play again. I'm sure you have notes in your Hamlet copy. Watch a film if you're further confused.
I'm sure you could guess at least one character, nudge nudge...
Hamlet is about a little pig that is eventually dethroned by King James Dean.
I wanna go with Polonius
do what I did in college and buy the Cliff's notes, bulls**t your way through the paper, and slam a Dew
(don't you love how these thread starters have 1 post and 1 post only on Lit Net?)
LOL
j/k
OP: the easiest way out of your dilema is to go to the online source Sparks Notes. Very helpful.
The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.
- Margaret Atwood
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Of course - they don't come here until they need to, and are then instantly put off by a lot of abuse from bunch of prigs. What a welcome.
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