09 Jul Humanities: Hamlet and Descartes assignment

For this assignment, you should write about the role of thinking in the play Hamlet. Specifically, I’d like you to address two questions. The first question is, “what does Hamlet’s excessive thinking cost him?” When I say “excessive thinking” here, I just mean his tendency to avoid doing things in favor of thinking about them–going over all the ins and outs, and so on. The second question is, “what does Hamlet gain by dwelling in thought?” These questions really aren’t asking you to make contrary claims, they’re just asking you to think about the whole picture in Hamlet, which is both a tragedy and a complex portrait of a beautiful (and troubled) mind. 

Nuts and Bolts: Typed, double spaced, MLA formatted on Microsoft Word and attached as a document that I can open. 500 words minimum and quote at least three times from Hamlet in support of your explanations. Your work will be judged based on the uniqueness and quality of your selections, your familiarity and engagement with the play and of course fulfilling the formatting and length criteria of the assignment.