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Stereotypes In Shakespeare's Hamlet

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No. Page # Evidence/Quote Analysis Classification 1 Pg. 2 “Slowly, a bit distracted, he would get up and move among his men, checking the perimeter, then at full dark he would return to his hole and watch the night and wonder if Martha was a virgin.” This one quote shows the mindset of young boys back in the day. The purity of a woman showed her value and innocence. He thought of Martha so highly, but if she were to not be a virgin he would think differently perhaps. This shows how there wasn’t gender equalities. The male is having impure thoughts about her, which seems to be okay, but yet she isn’t allowed to have those same thoughts. It shows the old fashioned morals, revealing that this was written about a time when virginity was a big …show more content…

Throughout the entire play of Hamlet we hear from his dead father, supposedly. We aren’t given enough information to determine if it is actually his dad or his own conscious, but as far as we know it is his father. In this quote we hear that everyone “carried ghosts”. To me this is referring to the guilt of the men. They all carried around their pasts, which could relate to the use of the word ghosts. Making ghosts a symbol of the lives they left behind when they went to war. What type of ghosts they are carrying around must be determined later on. Whether or not they are good spirits or demons so to …show more content…

How can there be no violence during one of the bloodiest times of American history. What I think they are trying to say is within the horrors of the war they made relationships, bonds between one another. They protected one another. The soldiers used each other to forget what was actually happening around them. This quote would relate to itself because they are using it to present the real problems they face, themselves. They chose to attack each other, and they also chose to protect one another. Like everyone else, they needed a pass time. Something to keep their mind off the fact that they have to go kill another man for the sake of each other. It wasn’t terror, it was

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