Category: Analysis
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Hamlet Act 3 Analysis
Main events of the act 3: Claudius no longer believes that Hamlet is insane, he wants to send him to England; Actors perform the play about the death of the king, Claudius leaves in a middle of it; Hamlet decided not kill Claudius when the king was praying; Hamlet accidentally kills Polonius; Hamlet tells Gertrude…
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Hamlet Act 2 Analysis
Main events of the act 2: Ophelia is advised by her father and brother to ignore Hamlet’s advances; Hamlet is acting very strange; Queen and King invite Hamlet’s school friends to spy on him and find out the reason for prince’s insanity; The actors of the theater arrive at the castle, they are to perform…
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King Lear Act 3 Analysis
Main events of the act 3: Wandering around in the storm King Lear expresses his pain and desperation; Kent finds Lear and takes him to find shelter in a hovel; Kent sends notice to Cordelia that her father needs help; The French army is already on British land; In the hovel, King Lear meets Edgar…
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King Lear Act 4 Analysis
Main events of the act 4: Goneril arrives at her castle, but her husband doesn’t come to greet her; Albany is unhappy about what happened to Lear and Goneril wants to have a love affair with Edmund; Duke of Cornwall dies and his widow Regan starts to plan a marriage with Edmund; Gloucester wants Edgar…
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Hamlet Act 5 Analysis
Main events of the act 5: Ophelia is buried despite the fact that she might have killed herself; Laertes and Hamlet fight on Ophelia grave; Claudius places a bet that Hamlet will lose to Laertes in a fencing tournament; Hamlet agrees to contest with Laertes and wins first 2 rounds; Queen drinks to Hamlet’s victory,…
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King Lear Act 2 Analysis
Main events of the act 2: Edmund persuades Edgar that his father wants to punish him for something so Edgar runs away; Gloucester disowns his son Edgar and gives all his heritage to Edmund; Regan knows that her father is coming to visit her but takes off to visit Gloucester castle; Lear complaints about Goneril,…
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King Lear Act 5 Analysis
Main events of the act 5: Regan wants to know whether Edmund loves Goneril; Edgar gives a letter to the Duke of Albany as proof of Goneril’s sins; Edmund doesn’t want to choose between Regan or Goneril and hopes that one of them will murder the other; Edmund is dreaming of becoming a kind after…
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King Lear Act 1 Analysis
Main events of the act 1: King Lear wants to retire and share his kingdom between three daughters; When asked about how much they love their father, two daughters, Goneril and Regan pay him lots of fake compliments; His youngest daughter, Cordelia, doesn’t want to demonstrate her feelings through this staged act; Lear is outraged…
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Hamlet Act 1 Analysis
Main events of the act 1: The ghost of the deceased king appears in front of the guards; Denmark is preparing for a war with Norway; Young prince Hamlet is unhappy with his mother hastily marrying Claudius; Ophelia is told by her father and brother not to fall in love with Hamlet; The ghost tells…
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Hamlet Act 4 Analysis
Main events of the act 4: Gertrude tells the king that Hamlet killed Polonius; Claudius sends Hamlet to England with a letter requesting the King of England to kill the young prince; Ophelia has gone mad and drowns in a river; Laertes is back to Denmark and wants revenge; Hamlet escaped and writes a letter…