critic names

Question 1

Von Goethe

Answer 1

“All duties seem
holy to Hamlet”

Question 2

Mabillard

Answer 2

“Claudius is not a monster, he is morally weak’

Question 3

Arnold

Answer 3

‘Claudius’ soliloquy gives the impression of rhetorical pageantry rather than ardent contrition.’

Question 4

Charney

Answer 4

‘Through madness, Ophelia suddenly makes a forceful assertion of her being’

Question 5

Prosser

Answer 5

‘Laertes is like a hurricane’

Question 6

Aristotle

Answer 6

‘The aim of tragedy is to arouse sensations of pity and fear

Question 6

T.S. Eliot

Answer 6

‘The opening scene of Hamlet is as well constructed as that of any play ever written’

Question 7

Knight

Answer 7

Claudius shows every sign of being an excellent diplomat and king’

Question 8

Showalter

Answer 8

“Ophelia is deprived of thought, sexuality and language’

Question 9

Rogers

Answer 9

‘In Shakespeare’s society, the ideal female is cherished for her youth, beauty and purity’

Question 10

in madness

Mack

Answer 10

‘Hamlet can be privileged in madness to say things about the corruption of human behaviour’

Question 11

Hazlitt

Answer 11

‘Hamlet seems incapable of deliberate action’

Question 12

Bradley

delay

Answer 12

‘Hamlet’s delay is due to…a form of melancholy’

Question 13

Swinbourne

Answer 13

‘The single characteristic of Hamlet’s character is by no means hesitation but the strong conflux of contending forces.’

Question 14

Bradley

tragedy

Answer 14

‘Hamlet is a tragedy of thought.’

Question 15

Edwards

Answer 15

‘We can imagine Hamlet’s story without Ophelia, but Ophelia literally has no story without Hamlet.’

Question 16

Mabillard

Answer 16

‘Claudius is not a monster, he is morally weak’

Question 17

Arnold

Answer 17

‘Claudius’ soliloquy gives the impression of rhetorical pageantry rather than ardent contrition.’

Question 18

Muir

Answer 18

‘Gertrude is a moral defective’

Question 19

Wilson

Answer 19

‘The ghost is the linchpin of Hamlet’

Question 20

Charney

Answer 20

‘Through madness, Ophelia suddenly makes a forceful assertion of her being’

Question 21

Mack

final act

Answer 21

‘In the final act, Hamlet accepts his world and we discover a different man’

Question 22

Frye

Answer 22

‘Hamlet is a tragedy without catharsis’

Question 23

McGrory

Answer 23

‘Women are either innocent maiden saints or loathsome sinners.’

Question 24

Showalter quoting Leverenz

Answer 24

‘Hamlet’s disgust at the feminine passivity in himself is translated into violent revulsion against women’

Question 25

Smith

Answer 25

‘Polonius seems to love his children….his means of action however are totally corrupt’

Question 26

# hamlet on gertrude Adelman | main task

Answer 26

‘Despite his ostensible agenda of revenge, the main psychological task that Hamlet seems to set himself is not to avenge his father’s death but to remake his mother’

Question 27

Adelman | reformation

Answer 27

‘Throughout the play, the covert drama of reformation vies for priority with the overt drama of revenge’

Question 28

Kastan

Answer 28

‘The absence of clear answers to questions is central to Shakespearean tragedy’

Question 29

# natural Coleridge

Answer 29

‘Ophelia’s… natural carelessness of innocence’

Question 30

# forced manner Coleridge

Answer 30

‘The strange and forced manner of Ophelia, …..was not acting a part of her own, but was a decoy’

Question 31

# oph soliloquy Coleridge

Answer 31

‘The soliloquy of Ophelia, which follows, is the perfection of love—so exquisitely unselfish!’

Question 32

Calderwood

Answer 32

‘Hamlet senses that he too has become part of a larger process: the plot of Providence as scripted by the divine Playwright’

Question 33

Kerrigan

Answer 33

Ophelia is a lesser we have never really known'

Question 34

Johnson

Answer 34

Hamlet is rather an instrument than an agent