Claudius- Psych Charcateristics, Flashcards
How is Claudius presented (1)?
- Claudius is depicted as a shrewd politician, capable of consolidating power and maintaining control in a volatile court.
Claudius is depicted as a shrewd politician, capable of consolidating power and maintaining control in a volatile court. Can you provide evidence for this?
- ## “Our whole kingdom to be contracted in one brow of woe”” That we with wisest sorrow think on him together with rememberance for ourselves.
His opening speech demonstrates his rhetorical prowess as he diplomatically adresses the King’s recent death, whilst justifying his hasty marriage to Gertrude.
How is Claudius presented (2)?
- Claudius is the source of Elsinore’s moral and political decay.
Claudius is the source of Elsinore’s moral and political decay. Can you provide evidence for this?
- “The serpent that did sting thy father’s life/ now wears his crown.
Hamlet meets with the Ghost of his father, who reveals the truth about his death. Claudius’ fatricide signals the usurpation of divine and familal order.
How does the ghost of King Hamlet describe Claudius’ fatricide?
- Most, foul, strange and unnatural murder”
Claudius is the source of Elsinore’s moral and political decay. Can you provide evidence for this? (2)
- Something is rotten in the state of Denmark - Marcellus.
Marcellus says this line after seeing the ghost of King Hamlet appear to Hamlet on the battlements. Marcellus and Horatio are both concerned about the strange appearance of the ghost, which they believe is an omen of something wrong in the state of Denmark.
Claudius is depicted as the personification of moral corruption and unchecked ambition? Can you provide evidence for this?
- *What would you undertake to show yourself in deed your fathers son more than words?
- -Laertes: To cut his throat in church
- -It hath the primal eldest curse upon’t— / A brother’s murder
- So excellent a king, that was to this / Hyperion to a satyr.”
Hyperion definition?
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