Shakespeare’s Hamlet Essay
The essay must be a minimum 1,000 words, double spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font.
Use at least 5 rhetorical/literary devices in your essay (please mark where the device is and what it is).
Please remember to use proper citation (MLA) in formatting your essay and in referencing any quotes you may use.
Essay Topic
A famous line in Hamlet is, “To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man” (1.3.1). Which of the characters in Hamlet are true to themselves? Does that prevent them from being false to one another? Does the meaning of this quote change for you when you consider that it’s spoken by Polonius, one of the plays most frequently mocked characters?
