Hamlet AO5 Flashcards
Adelman (sex, morality, women)
“Hamlet is more motivated by his mother than his father”
O’Connor (morality, fate, duty)
“[King Hamlet] is the catalyst that sets the play in motion”
O’Connor (religion, fate, morality)
“[King Hamlet] serves as a symbol for the religious ambivalence present in England”
O’Connor (morality, religion)
“To the protestant, all ghosts are apparitions of the Devil”
Brucher (morality, duty, justice, power)
“Revengers create their own justice, often in ways that imitate or even mock divine justice and that compromise their own moral impulses”
Doran (women, sex, morality)
“[presentation of women] Often in the background or blurred out - indicative of how they are useless/inferior”
Dusinberre (women, sex)
“placing chastity and reputation for chastity above even the virtue of truthfulness”
Dusinberre (morality, women, sex)
“no chance to develop an individual conscience of her own”
Edwards (women, sex)
“We can imagine Hamlet’s story without Ophelia, but Ophelia literally has no story without Hamlet.”
Glasgow
“Horatio is a harbinger of truth”
Hall (power, duty, action)
“Laertes and Fortinbras are representatives of action”
Heilburn (women, sex, power)
“Ophelia is surrounded by three power males: Hamlet, Laertes and Polonius. Without these men to make decisions for her she goes mad”
Ryan (duty, morality)
“spends almost entirety of the play spectacularly failing to keep his oath”
Lacan (women, sex)
“[Ophelia] obviously essential. she is linked forever, for centuries, to the figure of Hamlet”
Leclerc (women, sex)
“Woman is valuable in so far as she permits man to fulfil his being as man”
