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Hamlet Flashcards

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Hamlet: protagonist

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Hamlet

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Hamlet/ dynamic:

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Hamlet

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Hamlet: antagonist:

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Claudius

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Hamlet: static:

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Polonius

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Hamlet: round:

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Hamlet

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Hamlet: flat

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Rosencrantz, guildenstern

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Hamlet: stock

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Polonius : represents the type of older man of former wisdom, who due to failures becomes a comical meddler

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Hamlet antihero

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Hamlet

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Hamlet foil:

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Fortinbras/ laertes CONTRAST

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hamlet: setting:

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Denmark, late Middle Ages, royal palace

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Hamlet: tragic hero:

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Nobility: Prince
A reversal of fortune: perfect opportunity to avenge his father but king was praying so he couldn’t. Ghost makes ha less have madness and despair, kills wrong guy creative more chaos
Tragic irony: he tries to live a good, virtuous, honourable life and dies due to tragic fate
Catharsis: everyone dies and for timbres takes the throne

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Hamlet: tragic flaw:

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Incessant brooding and contemplation

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Hamlet : themes

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Mortality, madness

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Hamlet: characters:

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Hamlet, Claudius, Ophelia, polonium, laertes, horatio, Gertrude, for timbres, ghost, rosencrantz, guildenstern, Marcellus, Bernardo, Francisco, voltimand, Cornelius, Osric, Reynaldo,

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