Ghost Essays

Although this story is unconventional it employs many techniques found in the more conventional ghost stories, use of tension, suspense and doubt. Storr takes and develops all that is in the more conventional story, applying it in different ways to crossing over. The writer continually questions the way in which …

Do you saw a ghost before? What will you do if you saw it? My topic today is 3 things to do if you see a ghost. First of all, don’t freak out. Whether you are on a ghost hunt seeking spirits or you are just lucky to meet a …

In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, doubt is one of the most important themes. In fact, the whole play is based on the story of a ghost who claims to be Hamlet’s father, and nobody can be sure if what he says is the truth. In this essay, I am going to …

If one were to take the beltway to I-270 north, about an hour north of Washington, DC one would arrive at a town called Emmitsburg, Maryland. Is the town haunted? I collected several stories from a senior in college who is from Emmitsburg. This senior is a white female. The …

An example of two different movies that have the same title, contain a scene that is essentially getting the same message across, but differ so much in the depiction of two scenes, would be hamlet. In 1990, Mel Gibson and Paul Scofield played the role of prince hamlet, and the …

The definition of the word ghost is “a disembodied soul of a dead person haunting the living.” Some people believe in ghosts, others don’t. One lady who did was Sara Winchester who thought she was cursed by ghosts. She spent 36 years of her life, until she died, building a …

While reading Linda Hogan’s “The Feathers,” I tried to think back to any instances in my life that were left open and impossible to explain. I usually just put them off as coincidences or as trivial daily happenings. However, I am beginning to think that I should be more open …

Courage by definition is “state or quality of mind and or spirit that enables one to face danger, fear, or vicissitudes with self-possession, confidence, and resolution; bravery,”(Word Dictionary). In William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, we compare and contrast the two characters, Claudius and Hamlet, and study how each does and does …

In William Shakespeare’s tragic play Hamlet, the main character Prince Hamlet has an inner struggle with procrastination throughout the length of the play. It is this tragic flaw of procrastination that eventually brings about Hamlet’s downfall. Prince Hamlet is given a number of opportunities Hamlet to kill his uncle/step-father Claudius …

After reading the poem written by Theodore Roethke, entitled Root Cellar, I envisioned a dark, scary, ghost story. The poem was very understandable to read and on the surface it explains vegetables in a root cellar. The text has a literal meaning of that but the figurative language Roethke used …