in act 5 scene 1 of hamlet can u describe the attitude towards corruption expressed by Horatio?
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Horatio doesn't say much in act 5, scene 1. Consider that he's Hamlet's foil throughout the play, then look at Horatio's response to Hamlet's comments about the lawyers and politicians who used to be those skulls. He responds very gently to Hamlet's tirades, and seems like he's there to say, "yes, corruption is bad, but it's within some people, and they are now skulls, so they got what's coming to them" and wants to assure Hamlet to despise corruption, but tolerate it and be true to himself.\n\nLook at Horatio's first line in the scene, "Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness". It seems his function in that scene is to let Hamlet know that people are made by their social status
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I'm not going to write one for you, but I will give you some help - you can take it or leave it.\nMost analyses of Hamlet point to Hamlet's inability to make up his mind as his tragic flaw - they would argue that Hamlet is responsible for his own fate by failing to kill Claudius in act III when he had the chance.\nOthers, however, myself included, believe Hamlet's flaw was his lust for revenge, and that is what led to so many deaths.  \nEither way, Claudius's guilt comes from the initial murder of Hamlet's father.\nI won't pretend to be a literary scholar.  But I am a high school senior who just finished an essay on Hamlet less than a month ago, so it's fresh in my mind.
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Debauch-seduce,to lead astray morally corrupt
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"In 1605 a group angry Catholics in England plotted to kill King James I. Believing him to be tyrannical for upholding the recently deceased Queen Elizabeth I's anti-Catholic legislation, they planned to blow up Parliament on the day it opened. \n\nThe plot failed and the schemers were executed. However, what resulted from this attempted assassination of the king was extreme unrest among the citizens of England. Treason became something tangible. \n\nCould anyone be trusted? Could the king be trusted? Partially in response to this political intrigue, around 1606 Shakespeare wrote one of his bloodiest tragedies, Macbeth, to be performed at the court of King James I."
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He is interested in what is going on in his daughter’s life and knows how to get to her through his words and actions. He is also a wise man in the sense he knows what Hamlet wants from his daughter. Most of the advice that Polonius said is very worldly advice...advice of a man that understood the world.
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Ah The Merchant of Venice, one of Shakespeare's greatest plays.  When you look at the play, you can see this clearly played out.  Shylock signs a legally binding contract with _____ (it's been a while since I've read the play) that if he fails to pay the loan, Shylock will gather the man's flesh in usury.  When Shylock takes the contract to court, though, he is cheated out of his contract and exiled.  Of course, Shylock pursues cold justice and loses, but _____ shows mercy on the friendless and now daughterless Shylock by having him exiled instead of killed.  I found reading the Book of Ezekiel at the same time as The Merchant of Venice to be quite interesting, because this is one of the few books in the Old Testament that condemns the Jews explicitly for extorting usuries.  Basically the book is about how Israel turns its back on God (he compares it to a bride-turned hooker with no charge) and how he has stood this long enough.  But Ezekiel 39 comes as a sort of contrast when God has mercy on the Israelites and pledges to return them from their exile, displaying immense mercy.  Just thought I'd throw that in there if you want to whip out a novewl viewpoint in your class/papers.
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Well, I don't know if it's a motif, exactly, but you've got the theme right away of the Witches, who have their own agenda in the whole picture, and pop up now and then; the motif of "prophecies". Although Macbeth wants to believe they're all true, he scoffs at the idea that he would be defeated by one who was not born of woman. Lady Macbeth is actually more vicious and ambitious than he. By trying to avoid the various warnings re: Banquo et al, they bring about their own doom.\n\nI think Act 2, brings out more that Macbeth's "underlings" actually posess more leadership than he.\n\nHope that helps a little bit.
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You have to be specific about the part you're not understanding. The most important part of this scene is Hal's soliloquy at the very end. It's written in blank verse showing us that Hal is capable of kingly qualities. (In the entire play, the royalty etc. talk in blank verse while the tavern people talk in prose. Hal had also been talking in prose with his friends right before this soliloquy). The soliloquy shows us his Machiavellian traits - he's capable of manipulation and knows exactly what he wants to achieve by hanging out with Falstaff etc. In the soliloquy, he also uses metaphors like sun and clouds which further show us that he is capable of becoming the king. I can give further explanations if you tell me what exactly you are having trouble with.
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Hamlet!! we just finished reading that in my ap senior english class last friday!  try sparknotes.com, it really helps, and there's even a section, no-fear-shakespeare, that has the original text next to everyday english, so that it is easier to understand what it being said in our modern lingo...\nhope this helps!!!
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Take a man for granted and he'll become resentful. Stroke his ego and he'll try to prove he's superior. This is the essence of the book. Petruccio is trying to "tame the shrew", stop Kate from putting him down and talking back, and make her act like a proper wife,  putting her husband up front in everything. It makes him look like a clown, but HE thinks he's cool. Women win every time (sigh)
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Which speech? Try Act 1 Scene 3. \nhttp://www.onlineshakespeare.com/merchant.html#xref004\n\nStarts:\nSHYLOCK I am debating of my present store,\nAnd, by the near guess of my memory,\nI cannot instantly raise up the gross\nOf full three thousand ducats. What of that?\nTubal, a wealthy Hebrew of my tribe,\nWill furnish me. But soft! how many months\nDo you desire?\n[To ANTONIO]\nRest you fair, good signior;\nYour worship was the last man in our mouths.
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Indeed he is the opposite of powerless. His famous soliloquy (To be or not to be...) is all about how he is torn over what action to take next against Claudius.\n\nHamlet creates his own destiny by carefully choosing his actions. Examples: hiring the players to perform his play, choosing to not kill Claudius during Confession, stabbing the figure who turned out to be Polonius. Some scholars argue that Hamlet even pretended to be mad rather than actually being crazy.
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corruptness: lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain.\n\nputrescence: in a state of progressive putrefaction.\n\ndecay of matter (as by rot or oxidation).\n\nmoral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction".\n\ndestroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence".\n\ninducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering".\n\nIn broad terms, "political corruption" is the misuse of public office for private gain. All forms of government are susceptible in practice to political corruption. Degrees of corruption vary greatly, from minor uses of influence and patronage to do and return favours, to institutionalised bribery and beyond. The end-point of political corruption is kleptocracy, literally rule by thieves, where even the external pretence of honesty is abandoned.
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Hamlet Act 3 only goes to Scene 4 (The Queens Closet).  You are missing Scene 5.
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William Shakespeare - "Twelfth Night", Act I scene i
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First, I would have acted quickly.  Hamlet hems and haws and does basically nothing for a long time.  And that antic disposition?  What's the point of pretending you're insane?  What, really, did that buy him in the end?\n\nHere's what I would have done.\n\n1. I wouldn't have changed the way I acted--especially acting insane.\n2. I would have tried to verify what the ghost said.  Specifically, \na: Where was the uncle when Hamlet's father was killed?\nb: Where was the king's guards (the "Switzers" referred to when Laertes barges in on the king later in the play)\nc: Where might the uncle have found such poison?  (In Shakespeare's world this may not have been hard... Romeo sure finds poison easily enough)\n\nThe play Hamlet devises is a clever choice, but he more or less ruins the effectiveness of the play as a test by acting out during the performance.  It becomes impossible to tell wether Hamlet's uncle is reacting to the matter of the play (as Hamlet supposes) or to the bizare behavior of Hamlet himself.  Again, the antic disposition only brings Hamlet problems (and we are left to wonder whether it's all an act or if he really is insane).
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...maybe something a little vague but powerful? It's been so long since I read Hamlet.\n\n    It is sometimes said that man makes his own fate. This is perhaps true of Hamlet and Claudius in the Shakespeare classic Hamlet. Both men had some degree of control over their fate, and the fate of others. That they chose not to recognize it is proof of both their self destructive personalites and the genius of playwright William Shakespeare.