First They Killed My Father

him. Many people believe that the king was simply killed by a poisonous snake. However, Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude, soon marries Claudius who has become the new King of Denmark. This leads Hamlet to believe that his father was the victim of his brother's treachery. Claudius knows that Hamlet is aware that he killed his father, which is depicted as Claudius attempts to prove to everyone that Hamlet is crazy so he can send him off to England to be killed. While the theme of this play is Hamlet’s…

Cedric and I were transported to an overgrown graveyard. I knew that this wasn’t right. No one told Cedric and I that the Cup would take us anywhere. Suddenly, we heard someone coming. Peter Pettigrew, an evil wizard, came towards us and killed Cedric. He then pulled me towards a grave with the name Tom Riddle carved into it. That was when I knew I was probably going to die. Tom Riddle was Lord Voldemort’s name before he changed it. Lord Voldemort is the most powerful dark wizard, and he has…

of a charming person because he is “no more like [his] father than [he]to Hercules” and throughout that soliloquy Hamlet praises his father immensely but turns the words to his uncle with spite (I.ii.152). Furthermore, his cunning nature is exemplified in Act 4 where he uses the excuse of ties with England to secretly execute his nephew. After that, he also uses Laertes to plan a way to make sure Hamlet dies while also avoiding being killed himself because his initial plan did not work. He…

the German government and community were collapsing, Adolf Hitler rose to power. He soon convinced his followers that Jews were a threat and needed to be killed. The Holocaust was the mass killings of 6 million innocent jews, led by Adolf Hitler. These were innocent people just like us that the Nazi Germans believed were undesirable. They were killed, beaten, starved, and tortured.Life is Beautiful and Night are both stories involving families trying to survive the Holocaust. The book Night and…

Claudius not only killed his own brother, but he also married to King Hamlet’s wife at that time price Hamlet was studying outside of Denmark. When Hamlet returned to his country he had a doubt about his father’s death. And Claudius also had a fear of Hamlet too, but after…

During the years Shakespeare wrote Hamlet his father had died, they believe that his father’s death was the one who triggered Shakespeare to write Hamlet together with the death of his son in 1556 and his sister when he was a teenager. They believed that the story of Hamlet was derived from a play called Amleth, they both have the same plot where their father died, their mother re-married their uncles, both were exiled and was plotted to be killed. Shakespeare didn’t change the story much but…

Tragedy of Hamlet the characters play the seven deadly sins that all humans have committed at some point at our lives. With that being said I would like to describe the top three that I personally think are the most important during the play. The first one is envy- envy is the desire to have what others have in possession. Pride- the is the excessive belief in the abilities which interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of god. The last one is Lust- is inordinate for the…

Elie was separated from his mother and sister, Tzipora, having to stay with and rely on his father. Right after that, Elie and the other Jews were interrogated for their age and profession. Elie writes, “In no time, I stood before him (SS officer). ‘Your age?’ he asked, perhaps trying to sound paternal. ‘I’m eighteen.’ My voice was trembling. ‘In good health?’ ‘Yes’ ‘Your profession?’ … ‘Farmer,’ I heard myself saying. This conversation lasted no more than…

November 22, 1963 is a day the United States will never forget, a beloved father, husband and of course the 35th leader of the United States of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was assassinated. Lee Harvey Oswald Is the man responsible for this tragic, evil driven loss, or was he? John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline Massachusetts May 29, 1917. Being the 2nd oldest of 9 kids. He was born into one of America's wealthiest families, already destined for a great education and successful life. John…

Composition Skills II 16.06.2015 Fate, Free Will and Oedipus the King Oedipus the King is play presented in Ancient Greek, by Sophocles. Play is about a prophecy that Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother, which are extremely forbidden in Greek society. Some say it is the free will of Oedipus' that fulfilled the prophecy, some say it is the fate because you can not change something is given from greater than you. Free will…