How far is this a tragedy that that explores the burdens of duty?

*Was Hamlet's constant delay due to morality or cowardness? - link to duty- the only reason he's doing this in the first place is because of his filial duty to his father. Maybe his father's order is more important to him.?
Act 3 Scene 3

*Has idealism got anything to do with Hamlet's tactics?

*Laertes had a duty to revenge his father's death too. Might this have been one of the key reasons to the tragic end because the end battle between Hamlet and Laertes is what gave Claudious the chance to poison everything

* Was Ophelia's death due to the shock of the death of her father or was it because of her love for Hamlet or mixture of all?
Act 4

*Was the tragedy due the burdens of duty?

When I first started reading 'Great Gatsby', I thought of Nick Carraway as someone who isn't judgemental as he said 'I'm inclined to reserve all judgements'. I thought he was a considerate person until he contridicted himself and nearly everything he said sounded judgemental. This made me think of Nick as an unreliable person who says things he doesn't really mean just to make himself sound good. Nick seems to be from an upper class as he graduated from an highly respected Posh university 'New Haven' which is Yale University. Also the fact that his father could afford to finance him for a year makes him look like his from a quite rich family. I, from what I have read, think that Nick Carraway is a stuck up person and was very spoilt by his parent; he even has a servant to who makes his bed and cooks his breakfast. I, personally,  so far do not like him.

My Hamlet essay title:

Was Hamlet's fatal flaw due to his filial duty to his father?

Two hands

In the poem ‘Two Hands’ the writer is comparing his hands with his father’s hands; he’s not comparing them literally, although their hands are pretty similar ‘spade palms blunt fingers short in the joint’, but he’s actually comparing himself as a person with his father as a person.  He uses personification and metaphor to describe how his father takes out 13 operations in a day and yet sits up late to study even more ‘my father in his sits up late, a pencil nodding stiffly in the hand that 13 times between breakfast and supper led a scalpel an intricate dance.’  He contrasts this with himself who is a good writer but does nothing else other than that: ‘fingers with some style on paper, elsewhere none’. This contrast is effective because it shows how ‘hands so alike’, i.e. father and son, can be very different. He is also showing envious feelings towards his dads success and achievements; he is starting to see himself as useless as he has ‘saved no one, served no one’ whereas his father does this many times everyday. We can interpret that he wants his father to give him some attention as he seems to be putting all his effort into his work and putting his spare time towards his work therefore the relationship between the father and the son maybe isn’t so good.

Jon Stallworthy has used a rhyming scheme in his poem. His poem is set out in a that one line rhymes with the next line two lines down