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Hamlet, Critical Quotes Flashcards

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He loved Gertrude deeply and genuinely

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Anthony Dawson: Claudius and Love

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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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Harold Bloom: Gertrude and Love

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Revenge is not justice. It is rather an act of injustice on behalf of justice

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Paul Belsey: Hamlet and Revenge

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Hamlet only possesses the word of an unreliable ghost… as a basis for revenge

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Anne Barton: Hamlet and Revenge

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

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A.C. Bradley: Hamlet and Revenge

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The desire for vengeance is seen as part of a continuing pattern of human conduct

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Nigel Alexander: Hamlet and Revenge

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Claudius’ evil has corrupted the whole kingdom of Denmark

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Richard Altick: Claudius and Kingship

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[Gertrude is] negative and insignificant

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T.S. Eliot: Gertrude and Power

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All duties seem holy to Hamlet

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Von Goethe: Hamlet and Religion

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Hamlet is unable to carry out the sacred duty… of punishing an evil man by death

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A.C. Bradley: Hamlet and Religion

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[Hamlet] had no firm belief in himself or anything

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Samuel Coleridge: Hamlet and Philosophy

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Ghosts of departed persons are not wandering souls of men but the unquiet walks of the devil

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Thomas Browne, Religio Medici 1643: The Ghost and Philosophy

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[Gertrude is] strong minded, intelligent, succinct and sensible

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Carolyn Heilbrun: Gertrude and Feminism

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Hamlet’s far fetched scruples are often mere pretexts to cover his want of determination

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Friedrich Schlegel: Hamlet and Masculinity

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

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C.S. Lewis: Hamlet and Death

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

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Diana Bornstein: Feminism and Society

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

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John Dover Wilson: The Ghost and Supernatural

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pleasing men is Gertrude’s main interest

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Rebecca Smith: Gertrude and Loyalty

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He is being asked, as a son who loves his father, to avenge his father’s foul and unnatural murder

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Gabriel Josipovici: Hamlet and Role of a Son

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

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Jacqueline Rose: Gertrude and Role of a Son

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Hamlet’s will is paralysed by his intellect

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Jotham Lowell: Hamlet and Inaction

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Hamlet is obliged to act on the spur of the moment [when killing Claudius and Polonius]

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Samuel Coleridge: Hamlet and Inaction

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

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Henry Mackenzie: Hamlet and Inaction

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Unworthy of a hero

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Thomas Hamner: Hamlet and Heroism

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Hamlet’s suffering and behaviour stem from the fact that he cannot find a play to be part of

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Gabriel Josipovici: Hamlet and Playing

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

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Kate Flint: Hamlet and Honour

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

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Gabriel Josipovici: Hamlet and Honour

28
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Revenge exists on a margin between justice and crime

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Paul Belsey: Hamlet and Morality

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[Claudius] is morally empty

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Paul Schofield: Claudius and Morality

30
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[madness] gives him the licence of a fool to speak the cruel truths, transgressing the language of social decorum

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Kate Flint: Hamlet and Madness

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Hamlet is an element of evil in the state of Denmark

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Wilson Knight: Hamlet and Tragedy

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[Hamlet is] a poetic and morally sensitive soul, crushed by the barbarous task of murder

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Von Goethe: Hamlet and Corruption

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a play about a father and son who were undone… by sexually treacherous women

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Avi Ehrlich: Women and Corruption

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The Ghost is corrupting Hamlet with his thirst for vengeance

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Philip Edwards: The Ghost and Corruption

35
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that piece of bait named Ophelia

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Jacques Lacan: Ophelia and Power

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[Laertes] denies his conscience, his King and his God

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Eleanor Prosser: Laertes and Religion

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Ophelia has no chance to develop an independent conscience of her own

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Juliet Dusinberre: Ophelia and Feminism

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Ophelia literally has no story without Hamlet

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Lee Edwards: Ophelia and Marxism

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Horatio serves as the foil

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A.W. Verity: Horatio and Loyalty

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[Polonius] is a cold-hearted devil… prepared to gamble with his daughter’s distress

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J.H. Walter: Polonius and Parenthood

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[Polonius] trained his daughter to be obedient and chaste… a piece of bait for spying

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Rebecca Smith: Polonius and Parenthood

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Laertes and Fortinbras are both representatives of action

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Matthew Hall: Laertes and Inaction

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Sanity is humour

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Sir Herbert Tree: Ophelia and Madness

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[Polonius is] a man whose moral compass is infinitely wobbly

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Gabriel Josipovici: Polonius and Morality

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