hw # 7 & 14

7.
   Deliberate strategy and natural reaction both play into Hamlet's perception of his anger and grief. This 'antic disposition' he has acquired stems both from human urge to express grief in a profound manor, and  a immensely  intelligent ploy to pin point the murderer of Hamlet's father.  This ploy Hamlet creates by acting crazy allows him to have an opertuinty in attaining revenge, and satisfaction out of the grief he is feeling. The grief he is feeling is expressed in the same manor: Crazy.

14.
   The first quote highlights how he is hinting to his friends to confess about their deceitfulness. This proves that Hamlet knows Rosencrantz and Gildenstern's intentions from early on.  This leads to the second quote that Hamlet also realizes he is pretty angry and 'mad' about his friends actions. This leads Hamlet to question his own perception of reality and what is normal. It seems he  got lost in the act of his own madness and cannot return now.

Discussion Question 4.

Laertes and Polonius both object to the relathionship of Ophelia and Hamlet, due to their overwhellming concern for the well-being of Ophelia. The approuch Laertes and Polonius take equates to a "good cop", "bad cop" system of persuation with Laertes softley suggesting she limit herself, compared to the demanding nature of Polonius to leave Hamlet. They reason that due to his kinship to the monarchy of Demark the class diffrence and nature of their relathionship could never work out. Also such relathionship is denounced to Ophelia as just purley flavourfull and lack of true love and caring. The over-pretective Laertes and Polonius view Ophelia as ill-willed and uneducated based on her decision to follow her heart and not her head. This highlights the objectication of women in the time by Shakspear.

Claudius & Hamlet: The Power Struggle

In William Shakspear's Hamlet, their is a definitive similarity between Claudius and Hamlet in their language demonstrating the power sruggle between the two. The attribution of traits such as: jealousy, insecurity, and hatred are presented in the core of both Claudius and Hamlet's language to indicate the competive desire for power. This disposition of revenge for Hamlet and sustainment of the thrown for Claudius shows the reasoning for each character to long for power, that allows Shakspear to also create a situational factor for the audiance to attribute "good" and "bad" to the characters in the play. Ovioussly the Consensus of Hamlet having desire to remove Claudius from his position seems justified since his father was murdered by Claudius and he took the throne and the Kings wife. Both however, show the same importance and worry in power through the context of their language. Language seems to be the primary factor in William Shakspear's Hamlet, in demonstrating the similarity of both Claudius and Hamlet's desire for power over one another through the reasoning of dispositional and situational factors.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

" I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;"

   This quote in T.S Eliot's  poem represents the routine in Prufrock's life and how it has caused him depression to the point that he feels worthless. His routine that has constituted his living for nothing day by day brings Prufrock down to the epicenter of longing, insecurity, and timidness. This routine of disappointment and false hope for the attainment of love has left him feeling like nothing as he has nothing. Amongst such a situation and state of mind; one can determine that Prufrock has no sense of influence (in his view) to anything that could lead him to happiness, causing him to feel he has no justice in life.

Coy Mistress Essay

    In Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress the main foundation of the poem is broken down into three separate stanzas: true love, true reality, and true desire. Each underlying a separate principle of the man in the poem. Of these three principles; True desire serves to be the  primary factor  in terms of attainment to the man in the poem. However, true love and reality serve to be vital installments in attaining desire.
    Stanza 1 concentrates on the significance and the beauty of the "Love" in poem. "An hundred years should go to praise...Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze; Two hundred to adore each breast" The incentive of time serves to prove, and justify love to make it feel sincere to the Mistress. The man exerts this to set the foundation of 'Love' and subsequently  reach  a  positive reality in terms of reaching desire. This reality in actuality does not contain love; but an old, desperate man  with a desire for a pure women. The reality of 'love' for the Mistress is actually just an allusion. "And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust." The man is alluding in pity that time is against him, when in all truth it is his desire propelling him so low. In the last stanza the man excretes his true 'desire' which would be taking the Mistress' virginity. "Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power." The three principles that Marvell present come to be symbols for not only men in general, but also the game in which men (and women) play in society  for the attainment of desire today, as they would in Marvell's day.

Coy Mistress

"Nor would I love at lower rate."
 
   The love Marvell express' through this statement is innocence. Not only does he express the feeling of "love" towards the mistress, but also highlights how she deserves it. Also Marvell highlights through this line that his love is real and sincere. However, The idea of time soon encompasses the author to change his opinion on "love" and realize that the effect of time on love will destroy it. Therefore the author highlights how the idea of Carpe Diem seems relevant