The Narcissistic Dilemma: Exploring NPD Traits in Hamlet from a Beauvoirian Perspective

This research paper explores the intersection of existential philosophy and psychological disorders in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet,with a focus on Narcissistic Personality Disorder(NPD)as viewed through the existentialist lens of Simone de Beauvoir.Drawing upon Beauvoir’s existentialist framework,the study delves into the complexities of identity,agency,and societal expectations as portrayed in the characters of Gertrude and Ophelia.Through an interdisciplinary approach,the paper examines how existential crises intertwine with narcissistic behaviors,shedding light on the psychological intricacies of Shakespeare’s iconic figures.By synthesizing literary analysis with psychological insights,the study offers valuable contributions to our understanding of human psychology,societal dynamics,and the timeless themes of existential authenticity portrayed in literature.

An Analysis of Hamlet’s “To be,or not to be”

Some experts think Hamlet’s soliloquy "To be,or not to be..." shows Hamlet was thinking about the advantages and disadvantages of committing suicide. Analyzing the soliloquy itself and the whole play,this essay will prove this famous soliloquy was discussing the matter of life and death.

Coleridge＇s interpretation of Hamlet

Hamlet remains an enigma in literature. Most critics thought that Hamlet＇s week personality resulted in the tragedy. Coleridge offered the theory of psychological balance to interpret Hamlet＇s prevarication. He said that Hamlet＇s inner world is too rich to consider the outer world. Shakespeare valued action more than knowledge, and action is the great aim of existence. This profound philosophical and psychological interpretation transcended the forerunners, and enlightened later criticisms on Hamlet.

A Tentative Study of Figures of Speech Used in“Hamlet”

Rhetoric is a traditional discipline with a history of over two thousand years.Figures of speech play a pretty important role in verbal communication.People are attracted by"Hamlet"written by Shakespeare and his employing words and artistic enchantment.Shakespeare once learned classical literature,rhetoric,Latin and French.He is famous for his dramas.His language in dramas is rich and colorful and he is good at using figures of speech in his dramas.This paper explores some figures of speech and mainly focuses on how pun,metaphor and transferred epithet are employed in"Hamlet",in order to have a better understanding of the theme and the artistic features of Shakespeare.

Brief Analysis on the Application of Cooperative Principle in Hamlet

Cooperative Principle put forward by Grice has been widely used in our daily conversions. And the violation of Cooperative Principle is the source of humors and special connotations. Hamlet is one of the most famous plays in the world written by William Shakespeare. In the conversations of this play, Cooperative Principle and its violation is also widely used by the playwright.This article explores the application of the Cooperative Principle and its violation in Hamlet in details in order to make the readers interpret the play better.

The Eternity of Hamlet --Talk briefly about Hamlet's character

The character of Hamlet is evidently designed by its illustrious author as a picture of an amiable prince, an affectionate son, a fast friend, and a fine gentleman. Yet in no one of these respects is it by any means intitled to our approbation. From the beginning of the play till his killing the king at the end of the fifth act we find him irresolute, unnatural, inconstant, melancholy and brutal. That Hamlet’s character, thus formed by nature, and thus modelled by situation, is often variable and uncertain. I will content myself with the supposition that this is the very character which Shakespeare meant to allot him.

Why did Hamlet delay his revenge?

Hamlet as a representative tragedy by Shakespeare has its special significance .The original version of the Hamlet story is a brief narrative in the legendary “Danish History”. The revenge story of Demark prince is well known in Europe. Shakespeare as a great playwright transformed it from a sensational melodrama of murder and revenge into a spiritual study of character and human problem. Now let’s take a brief look at the story of Hamlet.The prince of Demark, a typical renaissance youth, born to a royal family, had nice dream for human beings. After he returned from Germany for his studies, he found the society in chaos.

ON Hamlet

The Hamlet’s scruple is dealt with, which has been disputed for a long time. Hamlet’s hesitation shows kindness and conscience of the human nature. Hamlet is not the individual tragedy of Hamlet, but the tragedy of the society owing to Hamlet’s uncle’s sins, which indicates the philosophy theory that if natural law is violated, it will bring about unexpected disaster.

HAmLET诱导小鼠前脂肪细胞3T3-L1成脂分化

目的肿瘤细胞致死性人α-乳清蛋白(humanα-lactalbumin made lethal to tumor cells,HAmLET)是一种可以选择性杀伤各种肿瘤细胞的人α-乳清蛋白与油酸的脂蛋白复合物,但其对未分化细胞的作用研究较少,本研究探讨HAmLET对小鼠前脂肪细胞3T3-L1成脂分化的作用及其机制。方法使用不同浓度HAmLET作用3T3-L1细胞和肿瘤细胞U87MG 24 h或7 d后通过CCk8实验检测细胞活性,选择合适浓度HAmLET与胰岛素、IBMX、地塞米松三联法诱导3T3-L1细胞成脂分化,12 d后通过油红O染色观察脂肪细胞内脂质聚集及脂滴大小、异丙醇脂质萃取检测脂质含量、Western Blot检测PPARγ的蛋白表达。结果50、100、200、500μg/mL HAmLET作用3T3-L1细胞24 h后,3T3-L1的细胞活性均显著高于U87MG细胞(P<0.01),而3T3-L1的细胞活性在100和200μg/mL之间显著降低(P<0.01)。100μg/mL和200μg/mL HAmLET作用3T3-L1细胞7 d后细胞存活率没有明显变化,而100μg/mL组镜下观察到少数3T3-L1细胞体积增大、变圆,胞质内可见脂滴。油红O染色,相对脂质含量及PPARγ蛋白检测结果显示100μg/mL HAmLET诱导3T3-L1细胞分化12 d后脂质含量水平和PPARγ蛋白表达水平与经典三联法诱导组差异无统计学意义(P>0.05)另外,HAmLET可显著提高诱导细胞中。结论使用能杀伤肿瘤细胞U87MG细胞浓度的100μg/mL HAmLET可通过激活3T3-L1细胞中PPARγ蛋白表达诱导细胞分化成脂。

Why must Hamlet Delay in the Revenge?

Hamlet is the greatest tragedy play of William Shakespeare.Hamlet is centred on the hesitation and the options of the heroic Hamlet's action.The purpose of the paper is to give an analysis of the essential reason of Hamlet’s delay in his revenge.The thesis is arranged as following:firstly,it focuses on the analysis of the complicated characteristics of Hamlet;then,it will anal yse the options that Hamlet has.Hamlet is great with absolute no doubt.

Ecclesiastical Wisdom and the Absurd in Hamlet

The element of absurd in Shakespeare's plays has its roots in Old Testament wisdom literature, particularly in the book of Ecclesiastes. The thesis gives some examples from the book of Ecclesiastes to present the existence of the absurd and shows several elements in Hamlet.

An Analysis of Ophelia in Hamlet from the Perspective of Feminist Care Ethic

Through the ages, Ophelia in Hamlet has long been regarded as a childish maid. This thesis will give an analysis of Ophelia's growth from the perspective of feminist care ethic developmental stages theory, trying to illustrate that in the play Ophelia has experienced ethical development and has arrived at ethical maturity in the end.

Tragic Flaws of the Protagonists——Hamlet and Gatsby

Hamlet is the most discussed of Shakespeare's tragedies, while The Great Gatsby is the masterpiece of Fitzgerald. It is true that the tragic flaws of the protagonists would be a key factor driving the development of the plots. In these two dramas, the flaws of the protagonists leaded to their tragic endings which are related to their own characteristics of the protagonists. And the ends of the stories are with the tragedies.

On the Opening Scene of HOn the Opening Scene of Hamlet and its Role in Theme Expression of the Play

Hamlet is a great example to demonstrate Shakespeare's superb skills in writing beginnings. The opening scene of Hamlet is an in tegral part of the play, which paves the way for and contributes a lot to the development of the two themes-death and revenge. This paper is to analyze how the opening scene is related to the whole play with regard to theme expression.

Is Hamlet Contemplating Suicide?

Does the question to be or not to be for Hamlet is whether to continue to exist or not?Is Hamlet contemplating suicide?The meaning of this famous speech in Shakespeare’s Hamlet has been given numerous interpretations.This essay focuses on the paradoxical emotion of Hamlet and intends to make a comprehensive analysis of this soliloquy.

A Road to Spiritual Maturity:An Interpretation of Hamlet's Soliloquies

In English literary tradition, soliloquy is a crucial device to present the literary characters' inner world. As a matter of fact, soliloquy can be presented in various ways. Hamlet's soliloquies, like his other speeches and dialogues in the play, have well reflected both his inner world and the spirit of epoch of Renaissance. Through soliloquies, we can trace his"step-by-step"road,beginning from a state of mental disorder and chaos, of maturation and come to know how he becomes a determined tragic hero to fulfill his purpose.

Hamlet the Humanist

William Shakespeare has left us the remarkable tragedy Hamlet, a typical novel in which the readers are deeply impressed by Hamlet, a special hero of his kind and also a humanist in the Renaissance Period.

A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the Issue of Self-Knowledge in Sophocles＇ Oedipus Tyrannus, Shakespeare＇s Hamlet and the Bhagavadgita

Greek and Shakespearean tragic truth emerges from pollution, moral brokenness, and pain. This also applies to the tragic truth of the Indian epics, except that this karmic kind of truth is not considered decisive. Crucial in the Indian case is cosmic truth, and Hindu cosmic truth is never produced out of pollution or pain. In Arjuna＇s case, Krishna＇s revelatory knowledge is religiously saving knowledge, whereas in Oedipus＇ case, Apollo＇s and Teiresias＇ revelatory knowledge is religiously dooming knowledge. In Hamlet＇s case, religiously saving knowledge is an object of theological speculation and of philosophical doubt. In the Hindu case, self-knowledge means absolute knowledge and ultimate liberation; in the Greek case, self-knowledge means self-discovery and the recognition of human fragility; in the Shakespearean case, self-knowledge means self-exploration and doubting oneself.

The Feigned Madness of Ulysses and Hamlet： A Derridean Reading of Cartesian Cogito

Ulysses, the towering mythological figure and the hero of the world＇s most famous epic The Odyssey, put on the pretence of madness to shirk the Trojan War. This is not mentioned in Homer, but in Fabulae by Gaius Julius Hyginus. Similarly, Hamlet put on an ＂antic disposition＂ after the ghost exhorted him to kill King Claudius. In these two cases taken from mythology and literature, and pertaining to the Classical period and the Elizabethan age respectively, intelligent characters put on the pretence of madness, in their battle with society though they are in control of their senses. It is the aim of this paper to examine the dynamics of reason and non-reason when combined and brought so close to one another, that they could be easily confounded, in light of Derrida＇s reading of Descartes＇ formulations about reason. Since the two examined works pertain to the Classical and Elizabethan ages respectively, the paper will shed light on the historical background of madness in these periods to give a broader perspective of reason and madness in these works.

Shakespeare＇s Language Strategies in Hamlet

This study investigates the language strategies used by Shakespeare in The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark （1603）. Emphasis is given to the type of language or register Shakespeare provides his characters with in order to give them genuine or assumed identities. The linguistic register of the three major characters of Claudius, the Ghost, and Hamlet is explored in light of the Elizabethan cultural context. This concern with these three characters stems from the basic assumption of the paper that the play is a struggle between Claudius and the Ghost over Hamlet. Claudius speaks the language of a monarch which is informed by the code of society; the Ghost, who used to speak such language of sovereignty while alive, speaks a language of the dead informed by a newly acquired experience not familiar to human beings. On the other hand, Hamlet＇s use of language is the most peculiar in the play. His register keeps changing according to his tragic growth and his readiness for action. The study indicates that the language functions Shakespeare utilizes in Hamlet are numerous. Language is used creatively for a variety of purposes in addition to communication. The playwright employs language as a shield for self-defense, a tool for defining and hiding identity and misleading and manipulating others, a means of search for reality, and a tool for punishment, among other functions. The study findings invite further research into Shakespeare＇s use of language in his plays. No detailed in-depth studies of Shakespearean language and its implications exist.