Is Hamlet a revenge play?

Hamlet has many of the elements of the Elizabethan revenge drama or tragedy, but it is also a psychological drama in two significant ways. Young Hamlet does finally avenge the death of his father, also Hamlet, by killing his murderer, Claudius. Along the way, however, he accidentally kills Polonius, so Laertes must avenge his father’s death; he also does this at the play’s end by killing Hamlet. The second revenge plot largely serves to support the main one by emphasizing the motif of father-son bonds. However, although a lot of people die in the play, only a few of those killings are actually acts of revenge, which is different from the typical Elizabethan version.
Many people have argued that the differences from the genre account for this play’s longevity. Hamlet’s psyche is really the subject, as his conscience and indecisiveness block him for a long time from taking the act of vengeance. The psychological aspects also include suspense similar to a modern detective story. If the audience believes the Ghost right away, then Claudius is certainly guilty. Until Claudius admits his guilt, the audience cannot be sure if Hamlet is right to be so cautious.
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Shakespeare's Hamlet is considered a "revenge play." Quite specifically, the ghost asks Hamlet to "revenge his foul and most unnatural murder." The ghost, of course, indicates who the murderer is: "But know, thou noble youth, / the serpent that did sting thy father's life / Now wears his crown." Here we should also note that the ghost certainly does not extend this revenge to Hamlet's mother, the queen. We know this because the ghost warns in his monologue: "But howsoever thou pursues this act, / Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive / Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven / And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge to prick and sting her." As the ghost admits, Queen Gertrude will beat herself up enough with guilt. How does this introduction as a revenge play compare with others of its time? Well, as was important to all Elizabethans, the divine order of things must (above all else) be preserved. In this case (as in may other revenge plays), a corruption of this order appears in the killing of a king. The order must be set right through revenge. Hamlet, then, fits quite nicely within the revenge play genre.

How did Chester A. Arthur become president?

Chester A. Arthur became the 21st president of the United States after the death of James A. Garfield. Arthur was serving as vice president when Garfield, the president, was assassinated by a disgruntled job-seeker. He died two months later from infections, after which Arthur was sworn in as president.
Although Chester A. Arthur was a member of the Republican Party, he rose above politics. He signed into law the Pendleton Civil Service Act in January 1883, which mandated that government jobs were earned by merit, not by political connection, and that employees could not be fired for political reasons. Toward the end of his term, Garfield’s health began to suffer, which is why he did not seek re-election in the 1884 campaign.

How does Cheever make a broad social critique through focus on a single middle-class family?

When Irene begins listening to the tumult in her neighbor's lives, she is at first, intrigued. She lives a fairly vapid, upper-middle-class life with domestic help and spends her days shopping, decorating, and lunching with women like herself. When she learns of the struggles of her neighbors she initially feels smug and superior, but eventually gives way as her own insecurities are revealed. It is only when her husband Jim confronts her about her attempt to hide her excessive spending and her past misdeeds that Irene is forced to examine her own faults.
Cheever's social critique seems to have to do with the facade of upper middle class respectability. Although the people in Jim and Irene Westcott's building dress well and have many other outward trappings of decency, what goes on in their apartments as revealed through the radio suggests otherwise. Like the others in their milieu, the Westcotts present themselves to the world as above reproach, but they, too have worries and money problems. Irene has episodes in her past that call into question her morality. Cheever's story observes that the chaos of the human condition is concealed by the thinnest veneer of propriety.

In The Alchemist, what omen does Santiago see in the desert?

There are two omens mentioned in The Alchemist. The first, for Santiago, is Fatima's smile. When Santiago first meets Fatima, she smiles at him, and he immediately falls in love with her. He calls Fatima's smile "the omen he had been awaiting" and "the omen he had sought to find . . . in the silence of the desert." Fatima's smile is for Santiago an omen of true love, "the pure language of the world."
A little later in the story, there is a second omen. In the desert, Santiago's horse begins to slow down, and he knows that this means there is something else alive nearby. Santiago, with the alchemist and the Englishman, finds a deep hole. The alchemist puts his hand into the hole up to his shoulder and feels something moving. When the alchemist pulls his arm out of the hole, he is holding a snake by its tail. He says that this snake is an omen because it is "life in the desert." The snake is a symbol of life and, therefore, a symbol of hope.

Did Toby encounter any enemies throughout the book A Dog's Purpose?

Toby is the protagonist of A Dog's Purpose and, fittingly, a dog. He is reincarnated several times throughout the story, so he has plenty of time to gather some enemies. In his first life, he's born wild and is adopted by a woman who keeps a large number of dogs in a pen in her yard. Then he is found and put down by animal control due to the poor conditions of the pen. Animal control definitely establishes themselves as one of Toby'd enemies, and one could argue that the woman's negligence and her decision to take Toby out of the wild makes her an enemy as well.
In his next life, Toby is adopted by a truck driver who leaves him in a hot car while he goes into a bar, and he is rescued by a woman who gives him to her son, Ethan. The truck driver could be considered an enemy due to his negligence. Toby is later kidnapped by a neighborhood kid, Todd, a clear enemy who later burns down Ethan's house. A while after Ethan goes to college, Todd gets sick, and Ethan's family decides to put him down. It's for the reader to decide whether this was a kind action or positions them as Todd's enemies.
In his next life, he is owned by a cop who gets shot and forced into retirement, and Toby is then given to another cop. No clear enemies appear, unless you count his handlers for forcing him into dangerous situations.
In his next life, a man buys him to give to his girlfriend, who neglects him. He's eventually passed to the girlfriend's mother, and her boyfriend dumps him on the side of the road. Both the girlfriend and her step father could be considered enemies.
All in all, Toby lives several rough lives, but mostly he suffers from neglect more than active malice or from humans hastily deciding to buy him and then not actually wanting him for his whole life. The title of the book, A Dog's Purpose, highlights the fact that generally, humans think about what purpose dogs can serve for them, which doesn't necessarily set dogs up to live their own fulfilling lives.

In "god's promise," how do the three siblings feel about "Coraandhersisters" playing on their swings when they can't go outside on Sundays in Brown Girl Dreaming?

"Coraandhersisters" are described in terms which suggests that they are spoiled, mean, careless, and infuriating. For example, they are described as "brag[ging]" about their anticipated Christmas presents, and, when they start listing their presents ("dolls and skates and swing sets"), it suggests that they expect to receive lots of presents.
When the sisters play on the swing set they "stick their tongues out" at the siblings, taunting them because they, the siblings, have to stay inside and can only "stare from behind [their] glassed-in screen door."
"Coraandhersisters" are also described as "tearing [the swing set] apart," implying that they are careless about ruining something which doesn't even belong to them. They seem to be getting a new swing set for Christmas, yet here they are destroying that which belongs to the siblings. This suggests that they are spoiled and careless and also that they lack respect or empathy.
In the final stanza, the narrator says that if the siblings' "hearts were hands, they'd hit" the girls who were destroying their swing set. This implies that the behaviour of the girls infuriates the siblings.

What is the figurative language and tone in chapter 6 of Bud, Not Buddy?

Figurative language uses various figures of speech, like metaphors and similes, to make a piece of writing more effective. Figurative language also applies to imagery because it attempts to appeal to the senses of readers. Chapter 6 begins with Bud going to one of the shelters that is going to feed people. He has a little trouble getting in line, and he is fortunate that a family fakes being his family. This allows Bud to get into the building much sooner than he would have been able to do from the back of the line. We are told that everybody stands in line very quietly; however, once let into the building, the silence ends quite dramatically. Readers are given a great bit of figurative language that uses a simile.

When we finally got around the last comer and could see the doorand folks going in it seemed like a bubble busted and people started laughing and talking.

As for the tone, chapter 6 continues with Bud's standard storytelling tone. He's honest and straightforward with readers. His account of his hunger is quite frank, yet Bud is always somehow able to maintain a playful tone. Describing the people moving and talking like a bubble bursting is a fun way to describe a scene that is not about something fun.