Answer: a violent ocean
Role in the play. Gertrude is first seen in Act 1 Scene 2 as she tries to cheer Hamlet over the loss of his father begging him to stay at home rather than going back to school in Wittenberg.Her worry over him continues into the second act as she sides with King Claudius in sending Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to raise the spirits of her son. Also rather than ascribing Hamlet’s sudden …
Gertrude Stein stated the date for her writing of The Making of Americans was 1906–1908. Her biographer has uncovered evidence that it actually began in 1902 and did not end until 1911. Stein compared her work to James Joyce’s Ulysses and to Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time . Her critics were less enthusiastic about it.
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer traveller political officer administrator and archaeologist who explored mapped and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making due to her knowledge and contacts built up through extensive travels in Syria-Palestine Mesopotamia Asia Minor and Arabia.
The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark often shortened to Hamlet (/ ˈ h æ m l ɪ t /) is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare’s longest play with 30 557 words. Set in Denmark the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his revenge against his uncle Claudius who has murdered Hamlet’s father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet’s …
The murder of Sylvia Likens was a child murder case that occurred in Indianapolis Indiana in October 1965. Likens aged 16 was held captive and subjected to increasing levels of child abuse and torture—committed over a period of almost three months—by her caregiver Gertrude Baniszewski many of Baniszewski’s children and several other neighborhood children before …