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    How Is Hamlet A Hero

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    succession to the throne by marrying his recently widowed mother. Prince Hamlet learns about recently deceased King Hamlet’s murder when the Ghost comes before him‚ asserting to be his lately departed father’s soul‚ who came back to demand his son to avenge his vicious death‚ a “foul and most unnatural murder” (I:V:1375). Hamlet’s protagonist solemnly promises the Ghost to perform an act of revenge on his Uncle Claudius for killing his beloved father‚ but throughout the play Prince Hamlet continuously

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    marry someone else there children are not going to be very happy. This happened to Hamlet‚ his mother remarried Claudius only a few months after his father died. To add salt to injury the ghost tells hamlet that Claudius killed him. The ghosts asks Hamlet to avenge him and to kill Claudius. Hamlet swears to the ghosts that he will avenge him “Haste me to know’t that I‚ with wings as swift as mediation or the thought of love‚ may sweep to

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    feel save. His weakness would be his mother‚she is all he has and as time goes on he starts to see changes. This kid sees things that most kids see at a young age‚ which made this character more realistic.One day i thought there might have been a ghost in my house‚ as time went by i didn’t see anything nor hear anything and thats the samething or similar that happen with the son. I felt sorry for the son when he tried to tell him mother over and over that there was someine in the house but she never

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    6-March-2015 Feeling Blue You can frequently see a faint figure of her in the glare of the fish tank or feel her presence as you cuddle by the fire pits. She will warn you though‚ in a soft whisper‚ to not go near the edge of the cliffs. Spirits and ghosts continue today to be the epitome of many scary movies and urban legends. The ones that have real life encounters tend to make for the scariest stories. The Blue Lady is one of the best customer’s at the Moss Beach Distillery and the star in many

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    remain on earth until they are either heard or their unfinished business is completed. A. (Ethos) There are many credible signs of spiritual activity. Ghost hunters‚ scientists‚ and high tech equipment all support the facts that ghosts do indeed exist. 1. Ghost Adventures crew investigates haunted spaces to try and figure out who the ghosts are and why they still linger by using their high tech devices such as EVP’s‚ inferred cameras‚ voice recordings‚ and hand held cameras. 2. Ghoststudy

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    A heartless man gets his life change on an overnight trip with three ghosts. In 1843 a now‚ well-known novella “ A Christmas Carol” wrote by Charles Dickens is one of the best holiday classics. Ebenezer Scrooge is the main character of “A Christmas Carol” and who is a greedy old man‚ that only cares for himself. Several events cause this remarkable change in Scrooge’s heart. In the beginning of the story‚ Scrooge hated Christmas. One day while on his way home he kept on seeing Marley’s

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    happily outside‚ notices that everything goes quiet when the mysterious figure appears‚ even the peaceful sounds of birdsong. This is a signal that something abnormal and certainly unnatural is happening – even though she doesn ’t yet know that he ’s a ghost yet‚ she can already tell that he ’s not meant to be there. When the Governess first met Flora‚ she described the little girl as a "radiant image" and "angelic beauty" (James 300). By the end of the story‚ Flora ’s image was totally changed. The Governess

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    The first theory is that there is a ghost and it was awakened by the old man who broke into tomb awoke the ghost of Mackenzie. After Mackenzie died the site was just a graveyard of a past war. Nothing unusual was happened until he broke into this site. While breaking the other tombs and caskets nothing happened. Only when he

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    death‚ but because his mother got remarried after only two months to his own father ’s brother. Hamlet feels alone in his sorrow‚ "trapped in his suits of woe" (A1‚ S2‚ L89). Hamlet ’s friends‚ Horatio and Marcellus‚ come to him after seeing the ghost of King Hamlet. Hamlet is desperately seeking closure for the loss of his father and anxiously demands

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    an innocent old-fashioned ghost story‚ but underneath there is much more. The use of ambiguity appears frequently throughout the novel and the reader is left to decide a lot on their own; Are the ghosts real? Who can actually see the ghosts? Which characters can the reader really rely on? These questions can be answered in a variety of different ways‚ but who is to say which answer is the correct one? The biggest case of ambiguity appears at the very end of the ghost story with the death of Miles

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