Essay On Hamlet
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- Thu Jul 11 2002

... ESSay on HamLEt First of all, the placement of the whole play apart from two scenes (Act4 scene 4 and Act 5 scene 1) is in the castle Elsinore. We start off with the death of King Hamlet, he has been killed by his brother; Claudius who immediately takes control of King Hamlets throne. The only person still mourning for King Hamlets death is his son Hamlet who is quite sad, lonely, upset and sometimes confused about his fathers death; his feelings could be shown on screen by lazy, slow movements and reactions as well as confused, deep speeches. In the first scene, Shakespeare creates an atmosphere of anxiety and dread using conversations between characters which don't flow, have no rhythm " Barnardo: who's there?" " Francisco: Nay answer me. Stand and unfold yourself." As you can see in this there is no rhythm that Shakespeare creates. This kind of














