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Ambrelyne Harriston
Alix Williams

APAC English lll

23 April 2007

A Change Over Time: How Acting Changed Hamlet, Why He Did It, and How It Caused

His Downfall

The depth and capability of the human imagination is endless. Its ability to

fabricate tales and offer sanctuary from a difficult reality is one of man's oldest defense

mechanisms for dealing with a constantly changing and violent world. However, there

comes a time when a person's pretending to be something that he or she is not or

pretending that something else is something that it is not has dire consequences to the

individual and their environment. It alters it so much to the point where the individual's

ability to decipher between reality and fantasy is dulled or completely destroyed. This is

most often followed by the incontrovertible eradication of the individual and other

persons the individual is directly connected to. This concept of deceit begets destruction......

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Approximate Word Count: 1559
Approximate Pages: 7 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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