Critics Flashcards
1
Q
Belsey - “hamlet dies a …..
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revenger, a poisoner, but also a soldier and a prince”
2
Q
Knight: “hamlet is an element of….
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evil in the state of denmark”
3
Q
Scofield: “claudius is….
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morally empty”
4
Q
Jones: “hamlet didn’t kill claudius without …..
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killing himself”
5
Q
Smith: “gertrude is stuck between……
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two mighty opposites”
6
Q
Trilling: “shakespeare did not intend the oedipus motive. we…..
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should not search for a hidden ‘motive’”
7
Q
Greenblat: “hamlet is a protestant man…..
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haunted by a catholic ghost”
8
Q
Belsey: “women were everything men were not….
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silent, submissive, powerless”
9
Q
Levy: “to Aristotle, in contrast to Freud, the defining…..
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human urge is cognitive not sexual”
10
Q
Stanton: “gertrude chooses a brother over a dead hamlet, Ophelia…..
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chooses a father over a living hamlet”
