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//Due Thursday, November 12 Hamlet// Act I scene v Read Hamlet’s Act I scene v. In this scene, you will uncover the major conflict in the play. The story, told by the ghost can reveal much more if we look at specific words and specific lines. For this paper, choose one part of the ghost’s speech that you believe can suggest other ideas about the ghost, the conflict, or the time period. There are many different directions you can turn for this paper, but make sure that when you write, you deliver your ideas confidently.

For example, Here, Shakespeare is drawing upon… Hamlet is feeling… The Elizabethan society at this time was concerned with…

Tips on how to write an A paper.
 * 1) Move quickly to your thesis and make sure your thesis is the right size for this one page paper. You are better off writing a lot about one topic than a little about a number of topics.
 * 2) ‘A’ papers go beyond what ‘everyone else’ sees as obvious. Instead, they find a part of the paper that they can tap and open up a whole new topic of ideas. Look for allusions, double meanings or split interpretations, contradictions, and the importance of word selection.
 * 3) ‘A’ papers appreciate the influences that may have inspired Shakespeare to create a particular scene or character at this time and identify those influences in the lines they have chosen.
 * 4) ‘A’ papers write to an educated audience who already can understand the plot so instead of summarizing, these awesome papers show the readers that there are really great ideas that average people would overlook.