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This 5 page paper provides a look at Shakespeare's tragedies and how they demonstrate the greatness of the protagonists as opposed to merely displaying a good versus evil theme. Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Othello are used as examples. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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dramatic characters whose greatness is inextricable from the things that undermine it." In other words, the characterizations created by William Shakespeare go to the greatness of the characters, or the
qualities that the characters possess as opposed to any circumstance he or she might find themselves in. They are better than their circumstances. Hamlet was of course the character who
had endured the death of his father and the realization that his uncle was the murderer. Hamlet endured his mothers romantic liaison with that same uncle, a ghostly encounter with
his father, Ophelias rantings and his own inner turmoil and conflicts. Yet, Hamlet asks in his famous soliloquy which mode of behavior is nobler. In other words, he does not
ask whether or not he would feel better by killing himself. He wants to know what is the right thing to do. Here, this is an example of courage and
character and something that allows him to get beyond his circumstances. He does go on to live after the speech that exemplifies suicide ideation. In Act III, Scene I,
Hamlet gives his famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy, followed by a talk with Ophelia. In the same act, Ophelia says: "My lord, I have remembrances of yours
that I have longed long to re-deliver. I pray you, now receive them" (Shakespeare 145). He replies: "No, no; I never gave you aught" (145). Here, Hamlet is in effect,
denying the love relationship. There was never anything between them. He never gave Ophelia a thing. Of course, because she has the remembrances, whatever they are as the work does
not say, in her hands, they do exist. Thus, Hamlet likely is not suggesting that he never gave those to her. Rather, he is suggesting that he never gave her
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