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In Act V of Hamlet, Hamlet is returning to the palace in Denmark when he meets two gravediggers.  Shakespeare describes them as clowns, which suggests a sense of situational irony. Why would clowns be in a graveyard? It’s ironic that they are there since clowns are perceived as happy and uplifting while a graveyard is usually identified with sadness. However it can also be a play on the relationship between life and death since they are very closely related. In this case life would be represented by the clowns and death by the graveyard. 

As someone wanting to pursue a career in cyber security I am curious to know how many people actually know about cyber security and how it can be beneficial for them to know more.

Hamlet is a play that has many different themes and a tone that changes often. A few of those themes are revenge, trust and human nature. These themes plus hamlet as a dynamic character help establish a tone that is uncertain and introspective.

Love is often described as a noun but not necessarily in the way that people use it. For example, people often say they put love into what their doing like cooking. And somehow it makes their cooking better. How can you really tell? In my opinion haven't really experienced this. My older brother is a chef and the food he has cooked for me is great but I don't really has to do with love more than it has to do with the skills that he has been taught because he enjoys cooking but not really loves it. It is important to be passionate and love doing something but personally it has been difficult for me to pick up on this through the material ways it is shown.

Change is an essential aspect that many people face throughout the course of their life. Whether it is a change of environment, a physical change or even a change in how someone thinks we all make a few in our lifetime. Now this concept isn’t just seen in the “real” lives of ordinary people but is also apparent in many forms of literature. For example in the play Hamlet, written by Shakespeare, the author takes us on a journey following the lives of both static and dynamic characters. Hamlet, the protagonist, is one of the most dynamic characters. Due to the tragic loss of his father the audience gets to see the changes Hamlet undergoes: how he acts, how he is viewed by others and the change of his thoughts. Throughout the play Hamlet is never truly himself. The death of his father and they betrayal of his mother force Hamlet to start acting and thinking in different ways. Not only was he feeling angry to start with, the appearance of his father’s ghost only escalated the proble...

Comedy and tragedy blend well together. There is no doubt that Hamlet is a tragedy with traces of humor. The humor in Hamlet produces a sense of relief for the audience since there are many serious and intense scenes that do occur. Humor also allows those scenes to be portrayed a bit different and almost softness them up. In addition, this humor contributes to keeping the audience's attention because the use of humor may be hard to catch and is ironic at times.

If Hamlet was updated to setting with today’s technology a lot would change. There would be no need to send messengers and I’m guessing security on a royal family would be much higher. Therefore making it harder to kill someone and there would most likely be camera footage that could be checked to see if some people’s stories checked out. There may also not even be a need to kill Polonius if a camera could’ve taken his place. The technology that we have today would have the potential to change almost every aspect of Hamlet.