Hamlet

Question 1

Linda Bamber

Answer 1

“Gertrude’s guilt or innocence is not really an issue in the play. “

“character of ambiguous morality whom we can never fully know”

Question 2

Goethe

Answer 2

“pure, noble and most moral nature…sinks beneath a burden which it cannot bare”

Question 3

Jones

Answer 3

“Oedipus complex” Hamlet cannot murder Claudius as he has committed the deed that Hamlet would be carrying out

Question 4

Spurgeon

Answer 4

“Images of sickness and disease” are “descriptive of the unwholesome condition of Denmark morally”

Question 5

Knight

Answer 5

Claudius is “a good and gentle King”

“Hamlet is an element of evil in the state of Denmark”

Question 6

Smith

Answer 6

“Polonius seems to love his children, he seems to have the welfare of the Kingdom in mind”

“trained his daughter to be obedient and chaste and is able to use her as a piece of bait for spying”

Question 7

Lee Edwards

Answer 7

“We can imagine Hamlet’s story without Ophelia, but Ophelia literally has no story without Hamlet”

Question 8

Ann Thompson

Answer 8

Male characters have a limited perception of female characters, and are often wrong about them. Shakespeare intended this.