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Hamlet Critic Quotes Flashcards

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Goethe (Hamlet and Duty)

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All duties seem holy to Hamlet

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“Schofield (Claudius’ morality)”

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“He has the persuasiveness and physical courage of a ruler, but is morally empty”

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Coleridge in 1800 (on Hamlet killing Claudius and Polonius)

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Hamlet is obliged to act on the spur of the moment

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Dawson (Claudius’ love for Gertrude)

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He loved Gertrude deeply and genuinely

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Sir Herbert Tree (Madness and Humour)

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The key comic element of the play is madness

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Bloom (Gertrude’s promiscuity)

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a woman of exuberant sexuality, who inspires uxorious passion first in King Hamlet and later in Claudius

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C.S Lewis (Hamlet’s fear of death)

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Hamlet is haunted, not by a physical fear of dying, but of being dead

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Elaine Showalter (Ophelia’s deprivations)

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Ophelia is deprived of thought, sexuality and language

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Rebecca Smith (Gertrude’s interests)

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Pleasing men is Gertrude’s main interest

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Diana Bornstein (advice given to women)

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Women are often given the same advice that is given to servants… Chasity, piety, obedience

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Henry Mackenzie (Hamlet’s purposes of Revenge)

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With the strongest purposes of revenge, he is irresolute and inactive

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J.H Walter (Polonius)

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Cold-hearted devil

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Gabriel Josipovici (Polonius’ moral compass)

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A man whose moral compass is infinitely wobbly

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Thomas Hamner (Hamlet’s actions in Act 3, scene 3)

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Unworthy of a hero

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Kate Flint (Hamlet’s inactivity in Act 3, scene 3)

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He himself is literally no better than the sinner whom he is to punish

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Jacqueline Rose (Hamlet’s violence towards his mother in Act 3, scene 4)

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The violence towards the mother is the effect of the desire for her

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Kate Flint (Hamlet’s madness)

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gives him the licence of a fool to speak cruel truths, transgressing the language of social decorum

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Goethe in 1795 (Hamlet as a tragic hero)

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a poetic and morally sensitive soul crushed by the barbarous task of murder

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Susan Synder (Hamlet comedy and tragedy)

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Comedy can be seen as “the grounds from which tragedy develops”

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Elaine Showalter (Ophelia as a character)

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Ophelia is portrayed as “an insignificant minor character”

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Samuel Johnson in 1765 (Hamlet’s inactivity)

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Hamlet is rather an instrument than an agent

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Coleridge in early 1800 (Hamlet’s thinking and action)

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Hamlet is a man incapable of acting because he thinks too much

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Gabriel Josipovici (Hamlet’s character)

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Hamlet is a merge of the tragic hero and the clown figure

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Wilson Knight in 1930 (on Claudius)

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Claudius is a “good and gentle King”

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A.C Bradley in 1904 (Hamlet on avenging his father)

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Hamlet assumes without any questioning that he ought to avenge his father

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John Dover Wilson in 1935 (the origins of the ghost)

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we are never perfectly certain as to just who or what the ghost is

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John Gielgud (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern)

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are “just toadies to the king”

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Lee Edwards (Ophelia)

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Ophelia literally has no story without Hamlet

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Avi Ehrlich in 1977 (female sexuality)

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Hamlet is a play about a father and a son who were weak because they were undone… by sexually treacherous women

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Wilson Knight in 1930 (Hamlet)

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(Hamlet is) an element of evil in the state of Denmark

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Amanda Mabillard (Claudius)

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he is not a monster, he is morally weak

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Alan Gardnier (Hamlet’s world)

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The world of Hamlet is a remarkably enclosed one

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Basil (homosexuality)

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‘there is nothing to keep me straight’

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Sybil Vane (purity, virginity)

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‘little white body’

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Basil -> DG (influence)

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‘you talk as if you have no heart’

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DG (entrapment, fearing reality)

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‘Dorian Gray locked the door…he felt safe now’

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Basil (guilt, sinning, religion)

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‘sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face. It cannot be concealed’

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LH (exposure, religion)

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‘I shall show you my soul’

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Alan -> DG (corruption)

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‘you have gone from corruption to corruption and culminated in crime’

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DG -> Duchess of Monmouth (status of women)

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‘she was very clever, too clever for a woman’

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DG (appearance vs reality)

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‘ugliness is the one reality’

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Narrator -> DG about Sybil Vane (mortality, guilt)

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‘her death is at you door’ ‘the man who destroyed her life’

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DG -> Duchess (hedonism)

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’ I have never searched for happiness…I have searched for pleasure’

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DG about James Vane’s dead body (youth, appearance, façade)

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‘the mask of youth had saved him’

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DG about James Vane’s death (reality, secrecy)

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‘his eyes were full of tears, for he knew he was safe’

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LH (mortality)

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‘death is the only thing that ever terrifies me’

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DG (repentance, reality)

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‘I have done too many dreadful things in my life. I am not going to do any more’

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DG (appearance vs reality)

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‘then he loathed his own beauty…it was his beauty that had ruined him’

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DG (appearance vs reality)

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‘youth had spoiled him’ ‘his beauty had been but a mask, his youth a mockery’

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DG (reality, art)

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‘he seized the thing and stabbed the painting with it…it had been conscious. He would destroy it’

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DG (resolution, realisation, sin, guilt)

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‘it was the living death of his own soul that had troubled him’

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