
The present paper critically examines the love between Hamlet and Ophelia.

The beauty of the play lies in the craftsmanship with which Shakespeare has imbued problems in character of Hamlet: his proverbial procrastination and perplexing dynamics of Hamlet-Ophelia relationship. The play has been challenging scholars across the world for the sheer number of problems that the play brings. It is undoubtedly one of the most influential tragedies in English literature for the reason that it offers something fresh and new to the reader in every reading of the text. Shakespeare's Hamlet is undoubtedly the most popular and the most discussed works of art in the world literature. This paper is an attempt to look into this power through the play's figurative language and explore how personal power or View full-text It is a complex relationship that humans have. Most of these layers build up to an individual's realization of how much power he holds in the society at large. It is quite complex in its nature and has a lot of layers. Therefore power just isn't about what an individual holds in terms of physicality or a position. Michael Foucault, the French postmodernist, said that "power is everywhere" and "comes from everywhere". Power here can be analysed from two points of view power at the physical level-dealing with strength, dominance and aggression power at the personal level-strains in relationships, emotions, family roles and their struggles (Theilacker 1). drastic changes in the attitude of the characters it touches. Almost tangible in its nature and brings about. It is the language that holds the ultimate power to create or destroy in the play. What has probably not looked into its deserving attention is the use of language to depict that power. The play on power and the abuse of it has been analysed at several levels. The first most obvious term associated with Macbeth is vaulting ambition. Terrible things to gain authority and power Someone who starts out like Macbeth and does not crave power will do Macbeth kills his way to the top, spurred on by his insanelyĪmbitious wife, who in the end is driven to insane suicide by the shameĪnd corruption of the very power she sought. Macbeth becomes corrupt through power that In Macbeth there are manyĮxamples of corruption. The present paper is an attempt to show the corruption of Power and become a person who doesn't control. Wanting for more, but soon after it gets out of control then there is aĬorrupted person who in order to change would have to step down from

Has become a global problem is that it's rational to be greedy or Other people don't want to associate with. It's a very threatening personality thatĬontrols and destroys people's lives and makes them the kind of person It becomes easier to obtainĪnd it literally corrupts their minds. When individuals come to a position of power, the definition ofĬontrol becomes a new one and changed.
