Critics Flashcards
Religion - Von Goethe
“All duties seem holy for Hamlet”
Swinburne - procrastination
“Hamlets innermost nature is no means irresolution or hesitation, but rather a strong conflict of contending forces”
Bradley- religion
“Hamlet is unable to carry out the sacred duty, imposed by divine authority,of punishing an evil man by death”
Samuel Johnson - procrastination/ Hamlets character
“Hamlet is rather an instrument than an agent ”
Coleridge- Hamlet’s character/procrastination
“Hamlet is obliged to act on the spur of the moment”
Alexander- morals
“The play does not-offer any conclusions about what is the right response to the questions it poses about human aggression”
Belsen- justice
“Revenge is always in excess of justice”
C.S Lewis humanity
‘Hamlet depicts lasting mystery of our human condition’
AC Bradley madness
‘Melancholia, tragedy of thought’
Schlegel and Coleridge overthinking
‘Excessive reflectiveness’
Leonard tennonhouse
‘Hamlet attempts to locate and purge a corrupt element within the aristocratic body’
Cumberbatch
To be or not to be soliloquy - ‘conversation between different synapses of the brain’
Freud and OH
OH is super ego
Freud and Claudius
Claudius is hamlets ID
Wittgenstein
The importance of understanding philosophical language
Swinburne
Hamlet expirience a conflict in strong contending forces
Patrick Stewart
Claudius is a man of action
Wilson knight
Claudius is a good and gentle king
Altice
The evil of hamlet has corrupted the whole kingdom
Hudson
Horacio is a noble character but moves so gently through the play
Gervinus
Horatio suffered everything and nothing
R N Watson
The Christian renaissance notion that vengeance should be left to God was often spoken of and even more often ply ignored
Adelman
Hamlets goal is not to avenge his father but to re make his mother
Earnest Jones
Hamlet cannot kill Claudius because he sees too much of him in himself, for he has fulfilled his Oedipal desires
Bevington
Hamlets indecision humanises him
Mary Daly
Phallic mentality
Rapeism
Beauvoir
Women have allowed themselves to become the second sex
Sartre
The is no God
Nietzsche
There is no objective order or structure to the world
Ayer
Ethical contemplation is merely a matter of emotional outpouring
John macrae 7!!
Seven soliloquy’s, build up to hamlet becoming king. Renaissance scholars used numbers to add logic and order to chaos.
John Macrae hamlet as king
Fortinbras ‘most holy’
John Lennard (talkative ghost)
He has 80+ lines, ghost in Macbeth has no lines,
John Lennard (armour)
The ghost wears armour, which is not typical of a ghost, could be noisy on stage, not what his was wearing when he died in the orchard
John Lennard (ghost a wimp)
Never confronts his murderer (as seen in Macbeth and Julius Caesar)
Voltaire
Macabre humour was a breach of decorum ….. an unforgivable transgression of the aesthetic code … of comedy and tragedy
John Lennard compound
Compound of tragedy and comedy created a new feeling which led the audience feeling hollow
