cyber sphere. This is the value of today’s students in America; the numbers that represent them. However, there are key principles taught by David McCullough in his address “Love of Learning,” and Thomas G. Plummer’s “Diagnosing and Treating the Ophelia Syndrome” that have given new insight into addressing the errors in our educational system that so many today are lamenting, yet are misdiagnosing, and treating with snake oil. These two men have been on both the learner and the teacher side of life
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Hamlet’s friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to watch over him and to discover the cause of his madness. While on the other hand the arrogant Lord Chamberlain, Polonius suggests that Hamlet may have become mad in love for his daughter Ophelia. However, Hamlet insults Ophelia telling her that he does not love her and that it would be for the best if she enters a nunnery. Hamlet assures his mother that he is “not in madness, but in craft” (3.4.190 Shakespeare) meaning that is playing to
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craziness, and sure enough there is. The question always remain whether Hamlet is crazy or not, but there is no denying Ophelias madness. Both of them have tragic events occur in their lives. Ophelia is asked to stay away from Hamlet from her father; she then gets rejected by Hamlet, tricked into giving up her virginity, and worse of all her father is killed by her ex lover. Ophelia starts singing about her father's death, Hamlets trickery and all the tricks of this world. To be singing after the death
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Although individuals can for the most part lead stable, well organized lives. Circumstance can relish the intense desire to act. In the play hamlet by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare demonstrates how A single event can provoke radical change, because of this lifes delicate balance is shifted towards a single focus that consumes ones entire being. The character of hamlet is a fitting example of an individual who sacrifices his identity to accomplish a desire that infiltrates his life changing it
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Social media could have helped Ophelia by helping her have other ways to communicate with others, had social media been a thing in that time period. While social media can be harmful, it can also be useful in ways to help prevent things from happening, such as teen suicide, deaths, hurting
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She would have more freedoms, but she still would not be set free. Miss Ophelia also accepted the gift of a slave. This shows the reader that she is not completely against owning slaves. She owns one herself, and her brother owns many. It seems like she also cares more about their treatment than their constitutional rights, much
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protagonist Hamlet shows a negative view towards the women in his life. He considers the fact that his mother, Gertrude, remarried so quickly after his father’s death an act of betrayal towards himself and his father. Hamlet also feels betrayed by Ophelia following her father authority by agreeing to stay away from Hamlet despite admitting of her love. Hamlet perceives both these women as fragile and too reliant on the men in their lives, he expresses this in Act 1 Scene 2 of the play, “Frailty, thy
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the play and the relationships between Hamlet and the two people who have been closest to him; being Ophelia and the ghost. Hamlet cannot share his strong feelings and emotions with his mother or his girlfriend and while his mother is literally sleeping with the enemy, Ophelia has chosen the side of Claudius because of her father Polonius. It is especially difficult for Hamlet to talk to Ophelia. The only other woman in his life, Gertrude, has betrayed his father by marrying Claudius. Hamlet may
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This quote comes from Laertes response to the jest making of the gravediggers and the improper burial of his sister, Ophelia in Act V Sc. I. The priest denies Ophelia the rites of a Christian burial because of her suicide, saying it would profane the other resting souls if she was given the same rites as they. This enrages Laertes and he curses Hamlet, blaming him for her death before jumping into her grave to hold her one last time. Hamlet, who is also at the graveside unbeknownst to the others
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chance play a vital role in promoting the development of the story and illustrating the ideas of slavery. For example, because Miss Ophelia and St Clare have their different background, one lives in the South and one live in North, they would have different ideas about slavery which could only be seen by small details. “‘I’ll go and see to his putting them in’ said Miss Ophelia … ‘My ear Miss Vermont, positively you mustn’t come the Green Mountains over us that way. You must adopt at least a piece of Southern
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