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MAJOR WORKS DATA SHEET (MWDS)
Title:

_________Hamlet___________________________

Author:

_________William Shakespeare__________________________

Pub
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In his
“Alas, poor Yorick”
speech, Hamlet is
realizing that death
is a part of life, the
skull being a symbol
of death
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In the end of the
play, all of the main
characters die,
which is supported
by the skull as a
symbol of death
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Poison can also
represent death as it
is the main murder
weapon in the play
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The poison is a
significant symbol
because it was used in
the first murder
and in the last
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Hamlet’s
original plan is to act
mad so that he can
kill Claudius;
however, as the play
progresses it
becomes difficult for
the audience to tell if
Hamlet is actually
going mad or not
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Gertrude truly
believes that Hamlet
is mad because he
appears to be talking
to thin air, proving
that she cant see the
ghost, and at this
point it is a figment
of Hamlets
imagination
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Hamlet seeks to
avenge his father’s
death by killing his
uncle, Claudius,
which sets most of the
following events into
action
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Also
Fortinbras seeks to
get revenge on
Denmark for its old
king killing his
father and taking his
lands by going in
with his army to take
his land back by
force
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Madness is a major
theme in Hamlet
because both Hamlet
and Ophelia are
considered mad at some
point in the play
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Also when he is
able to see and hear the
ghost of his father when
other people cannot
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Her madness
leads her to commit
suicide, and Hamlet’s
madness leads him to
consider it, thus suicide
is also a reasonable
theme
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The play
begins by telling the
audience of how King
Fortinbras dies in the
duel between him
and King Hamlet, as he
lost the duel
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Polonius dies when
Hamlet stabs him for
snooping
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Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern die when
Hamlet switches the
execution order to
their names
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!STYLE/ELEMENTS OF LANGUAGE: (minimum 3)
Element of Style
Example/Discussion

Element of Style
Example/Discussion

The simile in Hamlet's The use of
personification in Act 1,
soliloquy in Act 2,
Scene 2 is an example Scene 1 is an example of
an element of language:
of an element of
language: "Must like a “Frailty thy name is
woman!” Hamlet gives
whore unpack/ my
“Frailty” a name as if it
heart with words
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Again,
Through this simile,
Hamlet is using women
Hamlet is not only
insulting women, but to explain something
weak and powerless,
he is also criticizing
thus insulting women in
himself for being so
general
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He feels that he is “incestuous” in
his eyes for marrying
letting his father
his uncle
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strong
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” This
metaphor compares
sleeping with death
because when one
sleeps, they get a
temporary relief from
their problems, while
death would offer a
permanent relief from
their problems
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