Claudius Crtics Flashcards

Claudius' corruption, immorality etc.

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He has the . . .

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He has the persuasiveness and physical courage of a ruler, but is morally empty.

  • Schofield (Claudius’ Morality)
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He loved . . .

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He loved Gertrude deeply and genuinely.

  • Dawson (Claudius’ love for Gertrude)
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The cunning and . . .

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The cunning and lecherousness of Claudius’ evil has corrupted the whole kingdom of Denmark.

  • Richard D. Altick
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Clearly . . .

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Clearly the antagonist.

  • Carla Stockton
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Claudius, as he appears . . .

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Claudius, as he appears in the play, is not a criminal . . . He is . . . a good and gentle King, enmeshed by the chain of causality linking him with his crime.

  • Wilson Knight (Claudius’ Criminality)
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Claudius is a . . .

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Claudius is a good and gentle King.

  • G Wilson Knight
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Machiavellian . . .

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Machiavellian schemer.

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Claudius is as obsessed . . .

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Claudius is as obsessed by Gertrude as the two Hamlets are and although he clearly loves her - he shares the Hamlets’ conception of her as an object.

  • Smith (Claudius’ relationship with Gertrude)
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The revelation that . . .

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The revelation that Claudius is a usurper and guilty of fratricide confirms that he is the principal source of the rottenness which pervades Denmark.

  • Alan Gardiner
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What is rotten about the . . .

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What is rotten about the ‘state’ of his kingship is his [Claudius] lack of inner goodness as a man. He is a usurper, not of young Hamlet’s title to the crown but of old Hamlet’s life, crown and queen.

  • Andrew Gurr
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In the denouement of Hamlet . . .

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In the denouement of Hamlet the irony is profound. Claudius, who has arranged the whole performance in order to destroy Hamlet, is himself destroyed and destroys his Queen.

  • Helen Gardner 1959
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