Daniel Arcega Mrs. Emerick IB English HL II November 30 2021 Hamlet and The Stranger Final Topics D.3 Hamlet and The Stranger use the main protagonists’ internal dialogue to give the reader insight into their character. Hamlet’s soliloquies are used to show the audience his internal conflict. Hamlet’s internal conflict originates from a sense of uselessness. His soliloquy in act one scene two describes to the audience how powerless he feels. “But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue”(Shakespeare 1.2.159). The entire soliloquy is about how Hamlet despises the marriage between Claudius and Gertrude, yet at the end of it he relents that he is unable to speak his true feelings. Further on in the story, twice is Hamlet shown his inability to carry out his revenge. After watching the player act: “Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause”(Shakespeare 2.2.561-563). Hamlet is angered that he is not enraged at his father’s murder but he ...
Daniel Arcega Mrs. Emerick IB English HL II MLK Letter Response Guiding Question: To what effect does MLK use allusions to reinforce his goal in writing this letter? King utilizes logos, pathos, and ethos to show flaws in his receiver's logic and to clarify their hypocrisy. In section 1, MLK references the bible and Socrates to support his reasons for the protesting in Birmingham and his involvement in it. When the clergymen question MLK’s right to interfere in the politics in Birmingham, MLK responds by using a biblical allusion to reveal the holes in their logic “ But more basically, I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their hometowns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of fre...
Daniel Arcega Mrs. Emerick IB English HL II Hamlet and The Stranger Dialectical Portfolio Part 1: Use of the death of a parent Hamlet : Father is dead Learn much about the character because of it Spurs him into action The Stranger : Mother is dead Learn much about the character because of it Forces him into action In both Hamlet and The Stranger , the main characters experience the death of a parent early in the novel to introduce the readers to their characters and spur them into action. Hamlet opens around two months after the titular character's father has died. Hamlet's first introduction illustrates that the event still heavily plagues Hamlet. Reflecting on what has happened, he laments " Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, t haw, and resolve itself into a dew, or that the Everlasting had not fixed h is canon 'gainst self-slaughter!"(Shakespeare 129-132). Hamlet feels useless due to his inability to fix his sadness or s...
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