In my senior english class, we are going to write an essay about the book Hamlet by Shakespeare. My topic is "Ceremony". So I am going to talk about wedding, funeral, holidays, and other traditions.
But I am stuck, I need help with more informations!!!
I need to compare between Hamlet and the 16th century in England, what is the different during those ceremony.
2007-03-17 11:37:50 · 5 answers · asked by Kelly S 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
I need information about "Ceremony".
2007-03-17 15:21:36 · update #1
The play Hamlet has the burial of Orick, Hamlet's caretaker when he was a boy. That's the only ceremony in the play unless you count the play within the play.
2007-03-17 11:57:40 · answer #1 · answered by Babs 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Persephone is stupid... Hamlet is provided as a student thorughout the text cloth, who went to Wittenberg college, and so examining may be considered one of his familiar events. For a fiction novel, he might probably study a favourite translation of the Aeneid, just to work out the way it differed from the pretty romantic interpretation of the Elizabethan era. undergo in strategies that Hamlet even costs (loosely for that matter) from e book 2 of the Aeneid, approximately Pyrrhus' slaughter of Priam: "One speech in't I principally enjoyed - 'twas Aeneas' tale to Dido - and thereabout of it exceedingly while he speaks of Priam's slaughter." Act 2 Scene 2. So there is even info in the text cloth to point what Hamlet's familiar piece of literature is! having suggested that, Hamlet might have asked this scene from the 1st participant under the facade of his "antic disposition" - it may't be twist of fate that Hamlet chooses between the main image examples of revenge in all classical literature (Pyrrhus avenges his lifeless father Achilles) whilst stunning the theory of revenging his very own lifeless father...
2016-10-18 22:55:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im afraid of ghosts - sorry - I had to take the freebee 2 pts. I know a bit about the story, but have never read it. Studied the Bard 5 yrs in high school(had to in the '50s - no choice - only in Canada, you say? - true). Let's see now - The Merchant of Venice, Henry 5th, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, & oh it's sooo long ago - 4 outta 5 ain't bad - I'll remember one day -senior moment! Thanks for the pts. Good luck.
2007-03-17 11:46:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your answer lies in the Wikipedia. Also, your doing the whole "No-s" and "S-where-there-shouldn't-be" thing ESL people do. It is probably more important to focus on that instead of the differences between 15th and 18th century wedding ceremonies.
2007-03-17 11:43:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
OMG!
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"
Hamlet is probably the most popular of Shakespeare's 'plays'!
Evidence suggests that it was complete and being performed by 1600
2007-03-17 11:40:44 · answer #5 · answered by Double O 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋