hamlet

Question 1

allan urquhart - revenge

Answer 1

‘the duty of revenge must have tragic consequences for the revenger’

Question 2

a.c bradley

Answer 2

‘the direct cause was a state of mind quite abnormal and induced by special circumstances - a state of profound melancholy’

Question 3

TS Eliot - objective correlative

Answer 3

argued hamlet’s feeling overpower the entire play and that there is no valid reason for why his feelings are so strong

Question 4

ts eliot - hamlets relationship with gertrude

Answer 4

‘his disgust envelopes and exceeds her’

Question 5

g.g. gervinius

Answer 5

‘hamlet is an idealist, unequal to the real world, repelled by it, who grows embittered and sickly’

Question 6

William Hazlitt - sympathy for hamlet

Answer 6

‘hamlet is full of weakness and melancholy, but there is no harshness in his nature. he is the most amiable of misanthropes’

Question 7

Coleridge -indecision

Answer 7

hamlet is throughout the whole play an instrument rather than an agent