Hamlet essay(finally)

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't," an excerpt from Hamlet brings out the true meaning Hamlet would like people to see him as although he really is a true genius, and mad man at the same time. He makes people see him as this crazy teenager to try and hide what he truly plans on accomplishing. Along with most teenagers, they seem to be seen as these crazy individuals with no care in the world and go freely with what they want. After what Hamlet has gone through, most people would realize why he may have become this crazy person.

In this line, spoken by Polonius, he realizes that Hamlet has gone completely insane, but still senses that there is something behind it. He thinks that maybe there is a reason that Hamlet has been acting the way he has but he has the wrong idea as to why, thinking that it is for the love Hamlet shares with his daughter, Ophelia. Seeing what Hamlet has had to go through with the whole dad dying, mom marrying uncle, uncle ending up being the murderer and all, it seems like the normal thing for Hamlet to have done to deal with his stress. Just completely go crazy because he can't seem to control his emotions. But in reality Hamlet is extremely smart and has a well thought out plan behind this all. Most people in their teenage years living through what Hamlet had to go through would probably have been in the same boat, maybe taken it at a different angle depending on person, but overall they would most likely act out and start to cause ruckus's.

Throughout the play, Hamlet has done things to set himself up to be seen as this "madman." Although he still is dealing with the atrocity in his own family and should have plenty of built up emotions and stress about it all, seen when it finally comes out when he throws it all on his mom. It is seen that Hamlet is not all mad because when he kills Polonius, he is almost distraught in finding out that it was not Claudius that he had killed and instead an innocent man. It shows he does have feelings and does have a heart and not completely insane.

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't," a pretty famous line from the play Hamlet helps to conclude on the fact that Hamlet is not all insane, just a very good actor. It helps to push along the idea that Hamlet has a purpose behind everything that he is doing, and in the end has quite a good reason to enact the revenge on his uncle/stepfather.(still the weirdest thing to think about)

Catcher in the Rye Lit Analysis

1. This is a story of a boy named Holden Caulfield. He has been kicked out of another school for failing almost all of his classes. He runs off to Manhattan early and goes to check into a hotel, at the same time he is judging everyone by the way they live their life and hold themselves. He holds a very cynical point of view. He thinks everything sucks just like every teenage person does. He likes to get strippers and hookers, mind just like a teenage boy. He is a complete dick to his former girlfriend as they go ice skating and see a play. Holden calls a ton of people, although he acts like he hates everyone.
2. The theme is that teenagers are hopeless emotional wrecks. They look at everything like life is terrible and that nothing will get better and that showing emotions are a bad idea. He's trying to say that growing up sucks and that's why he is the way he is.
3. The tone of the book is almost a monotone story being told where everything is thrown at you with no rhyme or reason really in a cynical point of view often. It doesn't technically give you an easy recognizable beginning middle end, it almost just flows through itself.
4. tone-the whole thing is told in a straight forward tone.

foreshadowing-In the beginning he has several references that lead the reader to believe he is in a mental hospital or some sort of institution.

irony-His big thing is hating all of these "phonies" yet throughout the novel he is seen lying several times leaving him to be in the category of a "phony."

metaphor-My favorite metaphor out of the book is when Holden is talking to his classmates mother on the train and he thinks to himself that the son is as sensitive as a toilet seat.

symbolism-His red hat has multiple meanings to it but one of them is that it matches the hair color of his sister, giving him something to remind him of her.

flashbacks-He thinks back to when Allie died and has an emotional breakdown within the flashback.

Prufrock

1. Time plays a role that Prufrock keeps getting older as he attempts to accomplish his goals. He keeps pushing it off as time goes on. Instead of taking the opportunity he is given he continues to push it off.

2. He references Hamlet because he is saying that he cannot be Hamlet and cannot perform like him, with his courage and integrity. He considers himself an "attendant lord" instead of being anywhere like Hamlet.

3. "I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me."

Mermaids are usually a symbol of love and beauty so he is referring to the girl he is waiting for, waiting on to make his move but he is afraid that she will not come to him or see him in a way that he would like her to.

The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock. T.S. Eliot. Read by Anthony Hopkins

Everything Is Going To Be All Right - Derek Mahon

Read by the man himself, Mr. Derek Mahon.

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