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Posted by: Personality Jan 13 2009, 08:03 PM

I have to write a paper about the 3 poisons in Othello & Hamlet

I need 3 poisons that are Social, Physicals, and Psychological, can somebody help me out, i missed both these books because of family issues, and I need help, if anybody can thank you.


Posted by: superstitious Jan 13 2009, 08:16 PM

http://www.fermentmagazine.org/essays/hamlet3.html

QUOTE
In Hamlet, there are allusions to the ways grief can infect the body and mind like a poison; and it is infectious, spreading through the soul and into the roots of the soil itself. Indeed. In the first Act, before Hamlet himself even realizes what his uncle has done to his father, King Claudius makes reference to the decaying spirit as the country mourns the loss of their previous king: ...No jocund health that Denmark drinks today, But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell, And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again, Respeaking earthly thunder...

-excerpt from a paper (not mine! Found it online, don't buy it, do this yourself!)

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/othello/themes.html

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/hamlet/themes.html

There is a wealth of information on the interwebs. =)


Posted by: karmakiller Jan 13 2009, 09:23 PM

Moved to School.


You'll probably get more help here. _smile.gif

Posted by: Personality Jan 13 2009, 11:02 PM

QUOTE(superstitious @ Jan 13 2009, 07:16 PM) *
http://www.fermentmagazine.org/essays/hamlet3.html
-excerpt from a paper (not mine! Found it online, don't buy it, do this yourself!)

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/othello/themes.html

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/hamlet/themes.html

There is a wealth of information on the interwebs. =)


Thank you, i figured out 3 poisons now, just need Othello's poisons