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Comparing Hamlet 'And Life Itself Memoir'

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When you lose a loved one or a friend very dear to you, you are filled and over come with grief. Dealing with life without the one thing you know can be a big change in life. There really is no way to deal with grief, everyone processes it differently and there is no right or wrong. I also feel that there is no value on a human beings no amount of money can take the value of a person’s value to society. Hamlet and Roger Ebert show their different views on how life is and what it means to them.

Roger Ebert takes the idea of death and makes it into a part of life and something not to scared of. “Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance.” – Roger Ebert (Life Itself Memoir). As Roger Ebert deals with thyroid cancer he always held his head high and always thought of the best even though the outcome would not be the best. “To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.” ― Roger Ebert, (Life Itself Memoir). Ebert made his life as happy as it could be until he passed in April 4, 2013 and left a beautiful reputation behind. …show more content…

“To die:—to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.” ( Act III, scene1, line 60). Hamlet talked about death in a horrible manor because people wouldn’t let him grief he talked about it a disease and was not suppose to happen that people should live forever. This is an example of how many people deal with the grieving process they may cry , get angry, or accept it but in Hamlets case he rejects it and was

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Hamlet from Hamlet asserts, “To die, to sleep-- No more--and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to. ‘Tis a consummation.” (Act 3, Sc 1) Hamlet believes that death is the only way out. Death is to be embraced because it is the only way to escape the pain from this world. Death was an eye opener in a different way to Hamlet.

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It is how you deal with the event that makes you appreciate and value life. Ever since Robert Ebert

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In the novel Hamlet, Hamlet grieves over his father’s death, while his mother, uncle, and the people of Denmark seem to move on very quickly. “Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. Do not for ever with thy vailèd lids, Seek for thy noble father in the dust. Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity” (1.2.70-75). Even Hamlet's mother, Queen Gertrude, advises Hamlet to quit grieving over his father.

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To die- to sleep- No more; and by a sleep to say we end the heartache. ”(ACT III scene i) In this quote we see Hamlet debate his own life and consider whether dying would be better than to

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He is desperate enough to ask someone else to choose his fate. Furthermore, I appreciate the director’s choice of pauses throughout the soliloquy, which allows contemplation. For example, Hamlet says, “to die, to sleep- no more- and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to” (3.1.61-64). Between “to die” and “to sleep” there is a noticeable pause, which allows the audience the question death themselves. Is death truly comparable to

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Though we see nothing of the elder Hamlet on the stage, except his ghost, he really is the main-drive of all the action of the play. It was the desire to regain his crown that had obliged Claudius the murder, and it is almost a duty of Hamlet to his father that urges him to his revenge upon the king. This conflict, then, of the murderer and the avenger of the elder Hamlet constitutes the main plot of the play, and from this grows the entire narrative. There are many scenes in the play where it shows that the elder Hamlet was very different compared to Claudius, his brother.

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Hamlet's views death to be almost like sleeping. Seeing as it puts those alive to rest. shakespeare makes emphasis of this by using repetition. Repeating the phrase ”To die, to sleep,to sleep” hamlet is projecting that death is a sleep, one you cannot wake from and where a being can be at peace. Hamlet simply wants the easy way out of his affairs and would belittle the act of suicide to going to sleep.

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Death is a recurring theme in this book. Not only is death explained as being sad, but what is kind of weird is how death can be seen as sort of a happy thing. Dying, in general, is sad. But the whole ordeal of it can bring people together, or fix relationships that have been broken. In the case of Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom, Morrie and Mitch were separated due to the fact that Mitch cared more about his job than the most important things in life; love, work, community, family, aging, forgiveness, and the main theme, death.

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Acting out a play requires effort, hard work, and the feel as if the play is happening right then and is believable. Setting, costumes, gesture and facial experiences are amongst the many requirements to achieve a excellent play. In watching the different scenes of Hamlet act 3 scene four, it was evident that, although the same scene, were all done quite differently. Kenneth Branagh did an admirable job and portrayed Hamlet brilliantly all the while keeping the feel of “Shakespeare”. The Ethan Hawke version is more modern with guns and clothes, thus losing the feel of “Shakespeare”.

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How do you think about death? As Steven Duin says, "life can change in a moment, a moment that never leans in close or calls for our attention" in his novel review, death is concealing around people all the time so that they do not even know when and how it will come. The graphic novel Daytripper tells us a story about death, which is an unpredicted event in human 's lives. Since people live on the earth, they would experience a lot of incidents, which could change their lives, such as success, failure, love, and death. People might think value of life is the list achievement or some beautiful moment and important events.

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Although his mother in very much a parent like advice says, "good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off... Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die/passing through nature to eternity." (1.2.70-75). The Queen attempts to calm Hamlet down by calmly speaking to him to take his funeral face and the black clothes off and that all living things do die for a reason. Although the Queen's motherly advice seems to work on Hamlet with his response as "ay, madam, it is common" (1.2.76), he still cannot mourn enough for his father's death.

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William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet adapts to many different literary works of the present day. These works include, most notably, “The Lion King” a Disney movie adaptation. The movie shares common similarities in the characters, themes, and conflict, but aside from the similarities the Disney adaptation displays scenes and moments not connected to the movie. The main protagonist, Hamlet is shown in the movie adaptation as Simba, the heir to the lion pride from Mufasa, his father.

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In his soliloquy, he is asking himself whether it is better to live or to die, which he is considering to commit suicide. Also, in the soliloquy, Hamlet states that “Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveler returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?” (3.1.84-90). He explains that no one would like to live in an exhausting life, unless they don’t know what is going to happen after they die because they are afraid of what their after life is going to be. Both these quotes prove that the death symbol is always surrounded by Hamlet and he has a hard time to choose between life and

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