My impressions of the narrator in "The Raven," is that the narrator is had kind of lost it. He's mad in the head. That is my impression of the narrator because in the poem he spent an awfully long while being thrilled with the fact that someone knocked on his door. Only to open the door to nothing more but darkness.
Is like what Sean Roberts said: That the government is made up of three branches, which are made to see each other to make sure no branch is dominating the other two. They are all the time trying to find a balance among the three branches (Judicial, Executive, and Legislative). The founders created this in order to have an effective government in decision making.
Also, Gridlock is when something isn't moving. You can also call it a stalemate. The government is meant to have gridlock. For example, it can take a WHILE, a few years, for a decision to be made on a certain issue, and when it has to do with something controversial it takes longer (like abortion, which still, to this day, is a heated topic in politics), which makes people complain about how "slow" the American government is when making decisions.
Hope this helps.
At the beginning of the play, Ophelia was very shy and well mannered. She followed the social class status of her being a commoner and did not give in to her romantic feelings for Hamlet. When Hamlet begins his father's ghost and ignores her, to seek his revenge, she does not understand this change in his behavior and attributes it to him not loving her anymore. Due to her family's pressure over her and her not understanding Hamlet's sudden change, she begins to become insane and loses hope in love and life.
