Essay Outline

Compile all your hard-won evidence into an organized outline that will help you write a fantastic essay. Hand it into Dropbox. This is ultimately to help you write an amazing essay, but this outline is a graded assignment: it is designed to assess your ability to organize content.

Essay Draft

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Hamlet Final Essay Checklist

Quotations from the play have been carefully transcribed, maintaining the writer’s capitalization and using a forward slash (/) to indicate line breaks. Quotes have been cited with Act, scene and line numbers.

MLA formatting was used for citations and references. There is a Sources Cited page at the end of the essay.

Draft has been proofread for spelling and grammatical errors.

Thesis is clear.

Introductory paragraph introduces arguments.

Body paragraphs are written clearly, with introductory sentences, supporting sentences, references, and closing sentences.

Conclusion wraps up the argument.

Final Draft: Hamlet Essay

1.            The American novelist, John Irving, says said about his work The World According to Garp, that it is “a life-redeeming work in which everybody dies. Comment on the extent to which the same might be said of Hamlet.

2.            Locate a copy of Tragedy and Philosophy by Walter Kaufmann. Read the relevant sections of the text (Chapter 9) and decide which of the philosopher’s views comes closest to your own regarding Hamlet.

3.            One of the inevitable and time-honoured questions asked about Hamlet focuses on the question of his insanity, whether he has put on an “antic dispostion” or whether he is truly insane. Discuss whether you believe Hamlet is putting on an “antic disposition” or whether you believe he is truly insane. Consider the following questions in preparing your response, but do not answer them specifically. 

a.                  What is sanity or insanity?

b.                  How people know whether they are sane or insane?

c.                  If an individual lives entirely on his or her own, how can that person determine whether she or he is insane or sane?

d.                  Does one have to be insane to take another person’s life? To commit murder?

e.                  Is Hamlet sane or insane during this act of the play?

4.            While many have discussed Shakespeare’s work in Freudian analyses, C.G. Jung, one of Freud’s younger colleagues also interests many readers. Click on the link below, which contains an essay by Dr. C. George Boeree on Jungian personality theory. Read the short sections, “Introversion” and “Extraversion” and “The Functions.” The second link, “The Personality Theory of Carl Jung,” provides similar information in a different format. Read the articles, then decide and argue (in proper essay format) how Jung’s theories might be applied to three major characters in the play. 

•   Carl Jung Personality Theories

http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/jung.html

•   The Personality Theory of Carl Jung

https://suite.io/andy-luttrell/2ksg205

You have collected evidence, created a Mind Map, had feedback on your thesis, and have revised your first draft of your essay. Are you ready to hand your essay in for evaluation?

Length: 4-5 pages or 1000-1250 words double-spaced