Critics Flashcards
Hamlet is “rather an instrument than an agent”
Samuel Johnson
good and gentle king
Wilson Knight
“Hamlet is an element of evil in the state of Denmark”
Wilson Knight
Revenge is not justice. It is rather an act of injustice on behalf of justice
Belsey
the poison in the veins of the community
Wilson Knight
Hamlet
“deprived of thought, sexuality and language”
“represents the strong emotions that the Elizabethans thought womanish”
Showalter
the hero-villain
Bloom
more Hamlets than actors to play them
Bloom
pure, noble and most moral nature
Goethe
everyman
CS Lewis
suffers a series of patriarchal oppressions
EMI Hamana
only concern is pleasing others
Rebecca Smith
inability to express herself by means to words
Toshiko Oshio