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Okay Shakespeareans, Here's your final for Big Willie's longest play

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Okay Shakespeareans, Here's your final for Big Willie's longest play. Choose one of the following choices to respond to. The responses should be in essay form (introduction, body/support, conclusion), but I'm not giving you a specific length. Make it as long or short as you think necessary. Again, I'm only interested in your thoughts. Avoid outside criticism. The final is due Wednesday, February 23°. This is a serious deadline, since I need to enter your grades Friday, the 25°. Live large, and dangerously in your responses. As always, there's no "right" or "wrong" response, only responses you can or can't support with your argument, so have fun! By the way, because I have to go through your papers so quickly, you'll get a copy of your graded paper with comments by email during the first week in March. 
love y'all. - T 
The choices 
1. Some critics argue that Hamlet's feelings and actions around his mother, Queen Gertrude, are oedipal, borderline incestuous. Do you agree or disagree with this argument? 2. As a critic, do you trust Hamlet? He's very moody, tricky, and seems only to truly revearis feelings in his soliloquys and asides to the audience, but should we even believe what he says to the audience? Is Hamlet, in your opinion, a trustworthy or untrustworthy character? 3. What about Hamlet's relationship with Ophelia? She seems innocent in all that happens as well as in her attraction to Hamlet. Does she deserve how Hamlet treats her, and can she be considered a tragic character? 4. Why, in your opinion, does Hamlet procrastinate so much before killing Claudius? 5. Obviously, in the Lectures, I've given you my opinion about Polonius, but what do you think of him and why? 6. Compare and contrast Hamlet and Claudius, how are they similar? How are they different? 7. This is a long play. Do some surgical editing. What portions of the play do you think could be eliminated without really hurting the play? 8. Here's a hard one. Is the Ghost right in demanding that Hamlet revenge his murder? 9. Hamlet, over the course of the play, argues that Claudius is: a. A murderer b. An incestuous adulterer c. A villain d. A hypocrite e. A drunkard f. And his father's inferior. Agree or disagree with any or all of Hamlet's descriptions of Claudius.