The exciting force is an incident that starts a struggle. In the case of Hamlet (1601), this struggle is first introduced by Claudius.
The play starts when the ghost of Hamlet's father shows up in Denmark and talks with Hamlet. <u>He tells his son that he has been murdered by Hamlet's uncle, Claudius, who has inherited the throne after marrying Queen Gertrude.</u> Before leaving, the ghost orders Prince Hamlet to avenge his death by killing Claudius. In that way, the exciting force that starts the conflict is caused by Claudius, who, driven by an ambition for power, murders King Hamlet and becomes the enemy of the main character of the play.
First Great Awakening
In the 1700's, a European philosophical movement, called the Enlightenment, swept America. Also called the Age of Reason, this era laid the foundation for a scientific, rather than religious, worldview. Freedom of conscience was at the heart of this struggle against old regimes and old ways of thinking, and it changed the way people viewed authority. In the same way, a religious revival, called the Great Awakening, changed the way people thought about their relationship with the divine, with themselves and with other people. The Enlightenment engaged the mind, but the Great Awakening engaged the heart.
The First Great Awakening affected British North America in the 1730s and 40's. True to the values of the Enlightenment, the Awakening emphasized human decision in matters of religion and morality. It respected each individual's feelings and emotions. In stark contrast to Puritanism, which emphasized outward actions as proof of salvation, the Great Awakening focused on inward changes in the Christian's heart.
The word evoke simply means to draw forth.
C, because it is ultimately the cause of his death, he was told to not fly too high but in his excitement and arrogance he flew higher and higher until his death was inescapable.
