{"product_id":"conscience-does-make-cowards-of-us-all-hamlet-the-sceptic-thinker-an-anti-hero-9783656508694","title":"\"Conscience does make cowards of us all.\" Hamlet the sceptic thinker - an anti-hero?","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Schumann\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Grin Verlag\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Grin Verlag\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: As the protagonist of Shakespeare's play Hamlet, the young Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is popularly considered a heroic figure, revenging the murder of his father who was poisoned by Claudius, Hamlet's uncle. He appears to be an archetypical Renaissance figure, a versatile character that contains something of everything within him: \"He is the sophisticated thinker and the powerless politician; the resentful child and the sober student; the moral Puritan and the deranged Prince; the witty murderer and the cold-blooded jester.\" Since Michael Davies speaks of Hamlet's supposed renaissance variety \"as a compendium of selves\" and therefore of a rather \"modern man of no fixed identity\", we will in the context of this work examine the question whether Hamlet could be considered an anti-hero by pointing out certain traits of his introverted nature and the significant impact of self-reflection on Hamlet's behaviour throughout the play.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grin Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45568616104087,"sku":"9783656508694","price":1885.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783656508694.webp?v=1767465732","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/conscience-does-make-cowards-of-us-all-hamlet-the-sceptic-thinker-an-anti-hero-9783656508694","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}