Hamlet Flashcards
What is Sydney bolts theory?
Three little pigs- hamlet, alerted and fortinbras
In the same way the pigs are impatient to gulf their homes, hamlet and laertes are impatient and take the law into the own hands which results in their deaths
Sydney holt had two other comments on hamlet- name them
1) the text is like a musical score, it is meant to be performed
2) the play has no single plot
The critic Plummer suggested that the play was desperately….?
Sane
‘A man who thinks too well’ was suggested by which critic (german)
Nietzsche
What did the critic Nietzsche suggest about hamlets mind?
He is ‘a man who thinks too well’
A man trapped in a world of demanding action -geothe
‘A man trapped in…….. - geothe
Hazlit suggestss that we….
Who are hamlet
Which critic suggests that it is we who are hamlet
Hazlit
Wilson knight suggested that Hamlet is the….
Ambassador of death
Who suggested that hamlet was the ambassador of death
Wilson knight
The feminist Elaine shavalter talks about Ophelia as being objectified to a point of …..
Invisibility
Elaine shavalter suggests …..
That ophelia is objectified to a point of invisibility
Feminist Rebecca smith suggests Ophelia is a woman caught in….
The centre of a struggle
