Critical Interpretations - Hamlet Flashcards
‘Hamlet is he whose ‘powers of action have been eaten up by thought’
William Hazlitt
‘Hamlet is faced with “scruples of consciousness’
Sigmund Freud
‘Hamlet seems obsessed with Gertrude as a sex object’
Rebecca Smith
‘This is Hamlet living on the edge of his emotions’
Peter John
‘Hamlet “cannot break out of the closed circle of loathing and self contempt”’
L.C. Knight
‘The fundamental fact about Hamlet is not that he thinks too much, but that he thinks too well’
Harold Bloom
‘Hamlet’s own instincts are towards undoing rather than doing’
Emma Smith
‘To everyone except Hamlet, Claudius is as good as his predecessor’
Danby
William Hazlitt
‘Hamlet is he whose ‘powers of action have been eaten up by thought’
Sigmund Freud
‘Hamlet is faced with “scruples of consciousness’
Rebecca Smith
‘Hamlet seems obsessed with Gertrude as a sex object’
Peter John
‘This is Hamlet living on the edge of his emotions’
L.C. Knight
‘Hamlet “cannot break out of the closed circle of loathing and self contempt”’
Harold Bloom
‘The fundamental fact about Hamlet is not that he thinks too much, but that he thinks too well’
Emma Smith
‘Hamlet’s own instincts are towards undoing rather than doing’
