3,4 Flashcards
What happens
Polonois dies
Hamlet confronts his mother
Ghost returns
Why does Claudius confront his mother
To see if Gertrude new about clapudos crime - she appears naive and doesn’t know - victim
He wants her to repent for her sins
Language similar to a preacher “grace”
“Judgement”
What is significance of polonius murder
Undermines hamlets role as moral hero - unjustified
He’s not concerned about consequence/ no remorse
Contrast to his hesitstaion of killing Claudius in previous scene - hamlet seals his fate now
Could mean hamlet is mad - uncontrolled impulse without any logic. He just left Claudius praying so how’s it gonna be him
How is hamlet villain
No remorse guilt
Loss of emotion - crime corrupted him
Sexual imagery
Hamlet mad
Kills polonois without any logic
He is the only one who can see ghost - hallucination ??
Ghost appears in night gown
Contrast to his appearance in armour
Private / public crime
Gertrude victim
Realises her mistake
Didn’t know about Claudius crime.
Suffers
Hamlet mocks mother
“You have my father much offended”
Crime / incest
“Your husbands brothers wife”
Hamlet what’s his mother to realise her crime / repent
“You go not till I set you up a glass where you may see the inmost part of you”
Acts without thinking
Unlike hamlet
Revenge destructive
He thrusts his sword into the arras
Queen upset
O what a rash and blood deed this is
Hamlet relied “almost as bad goof mother as a kill a king and marry with his brother”
Hamlet no remorse of killing P
“Intruding fool”
Queen anagnorisis
“I see such black and grained spots”
“These words like daggers enter mine ears”
Hamlet sexual disgust
/ animal imagery
Rank sweat of an esndeamed bed stewed in corruption, honeyimf and making love over the nasty sty”
Queen thinks hamlet is mad
“This is the very coinage of your brian”
