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Dawn Graham Graham 1
13 March 2006
Period 4
English 12 P
Until the age of seven, I grew up in Richmond. Yeah, I know, it wasn't the best place to be and the school I went to was absolutely horrible, not to mention that I was a white minority! I guess you could say that the only thing good about living at 704 Wilson Ave. was that I could look across the street and see my elementary school and the park! See, there was two sides to our neighborhood; good and bad. It was very common to have belongings stollen from front yards and vehicles broken into. It also got to the point where, and to this day, I distinctly remember this, a police man came to our front door to speak with my parents and warned them: "There is a murderer on the lose so if you could please keep your children in side at all times and keep the doors locked it would be to your advantage." This killer to speak of was a madman! Now, being about six at the time, it's hard to believe that I knew exactly what he was talking about and knew that it wasn't good. I remember thinking to myself that someone must have done something very wrong to this person and for revenge he felt as if he had to kill them. In The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, William Shakespeare creates the image of a madman through Prince Hamlet's dark and desperate tone. Shakespeare explores this image with Hamlet's lengthy soliloquies of hatred towards Claudius, Hamlet's uncle. Throughout this play, Shakespeare demonstrates Hamlet's struggle to avenge his father's murder by his uncle Claudius. Hamlet is aware that Claudius is now king and is very protected: there is a very slim chance that someone could get through to harm him. Once seeing the ghost of his father, Hamlet becomes trapped in his thoughts: whether or not killing Claudius is the appropriate thing to do. Through this evidence, Shakespeare creates the image of a madman through Hamlet's thoughts of death and...
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