In a way, hamlet and claudius play a complicated and deadly chess game throughout the play, and both use pawns to accomplish their goals. three characters in particular are either unwitting or witting pawns in the game: ophelia, and hamlet's school friends, guildenstern and rosencrantz. choose either ophelia or the pair of school friends, and, in at least 150 words, trace the manipulations that act on her or them. what is the outcome for the character(s), and what comment on power might shakespeare be suggesting?

Which statement best reflects how martin luther king, jr. uses rhetoric and style in paragraph 9 of "letter from a birmingham jail" to assist him in advocating the use of nonviolent direct action to achieve justice for negro citizens in birmingham? click here to read the letter.

Match each type of troublesome language with its correct description

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?