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I have started an essay, and would like some opinion on my
thesis/intro paragraph. Any help would be appreciated,
especially advice, or miscellany.Here is the intro/thesis:
The story of Hamlet is a story that is full of many lessons
of life. It is filled with the best that is in humans, and the
worst. It covers all moods, all feelings, and all forms of
expressing them. In no other play, modern or ancient, are so
many of the facets of the human being covered. Hamlet is a joy
to read, but it also has within its pages many lessons that can
be taken from it and used, to improve the life of people, even
today, 500 years after it was first penned. The characters in
this play are what make it so special. Through their actions,
(or lack thereof) eight people are killed. Most of the eight
are swept up in an evil that engulfs Denmark, and clouds the
minds and actions of those involved. This evil begins to seep
into the play at the very beginning, with the poisoning of old
Hamlet. From this point it grows, each new evil adding on to
the previous, until the point that it is out of control, and
unstoppable. As the Queen Gertrude says in her Aside in act IV:[Aside] To my sick soul (as sin's true nature is)
Each toy seems prolouge to some great amiss;
so full of artless jealousy is guilt
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.Rotteness, cankers, ‘things rank and gross in nature' greet us
at every twist in the plot. All of this evilness and sin could
have been avoided if the characters could have trusted in God
and the ‘Heavens' enough to let go, and let God deal with the
guilty, instead of taking fate into their own hand's. The
inability of the characters to deal with, or even see,
the moral and spiritual dilemmas that stared them in the face
led to the cataclysmic ending in which two families were destroyed.
Posted by Aragorn on March 29, 1997 at 18:37:02
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