Critics Flashcards
1
Q
Goethe
A
“a lovely, pure, noble and most moral nature..sinks beneath a burden which it cannot bear and must not cast away”
2
Q
Jones
A
Hamlet has “Oedipus complex”. He cannot murder Claudius as he would be committing the deed he wants to punish Claudius for.
3
Q
Spurgeon
A
“images of sickness and disease” are “descriptive of the unwholesome condition of Denmark morally”
4
Q
Knight
A
Claudius is “a good and gentle King”
“Hamlet is an element of evil in the state of Denmark”
5
Q
Smith
A
“Polonius seems to love his children, he seems to have the welfare of the Kingdom in mind. His means of actions, however, are totally corrupt”
Polonius has “trained his daughter to be obedient and chaste and is able to use her as a piece of bait for spying”
