Critics Flashcards
Hamner
No reason at all in nature, why the young Prince did not put the usurper to Death as soon as possible, especially as Hamlet is representes as a Youth so brave and so careless of his own life.
Von Goethe
A lovely, pure and most moral nature, with without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot bear and must not cast away
Coleridge
Hamlet’s character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalising habit over the practical
Eliot
Hamlet is dominated by an emotion which is inexpressible because it is in excess of the facts as they appear
Jones
His uncle incorporates the deepest and most buried part of his own personality, so that he cannot kill without also killing himself
Gardener
Hamlet’s agony of mind and indecision are precisely the things which differentiate him from that smooth, swift plotter, Claudius, and from the coarse, unthinking Laertes, ready to dare damnation and cut his enemy’s throat in a church
Kitteredge
The whole course of his argumentation is general, not personal
Dawson
Only protagonist in any Elizabethan revenge play who can be considered a hero, aware of moral implications
Jones
Shakespeare certainly never intended us to regard Hamlet as insane
Crawford
Hamlet retains from first to last a calm and firm grasp of the situation in both its complexity and integrity
Cruttwell
Hamlet is a conscript in war. He has done things(…)he would rather not have done
G.W.Knight
Hamlet is a sick soul commanded to heal and is an element of evil in the state of Denmark. “Inhuman or superhuman, a creature of another world”
Nietzche
Hamlet speaks more superficially than he acts
Dr Johnson
Hamlet is an instrument rather than an agent
Schkegel
Hamlet has no firm belief in himself, or in anything else
