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Ophelia’s function in the play is vital

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Barber

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Barber - Ophelia’s function

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Ophelia’s function in the play is vital

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‘pleasing men is Gertrude’s main interest’

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Smith

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Smith - Gertrude

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‘pleasing men is Gertrude’s main interest’

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‘Rosencrantz and guildenstern sacrifice the bond of human friendship to a social propriety’

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Marilyn French

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Marilyn French - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern sacrifice the bond of human friendship to a social propriety’

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‘That piece of bait named Ophelia’

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Lacan

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Lacan - Ophelia

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‘That piece of bait named Ophelia’

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‘Ophelia has no chance to develop an independent conscience’

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Dusinberre

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Dusinberre - Ophelia

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‘Ophelia has no chance to develop an independent conscience’

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Gertrude’s ‘negative and insignificant’

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Elliot

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T.S Elliot - Gertrude

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Gertrude’s ‘negative and insignificant’

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‘The very grandeur of Hamlet’s rank narrows his freedom and… makes his possible licentiousness… all the more dangerous to Ophelia’

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T. Wright

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T. Wright - Hamlet’s effect on Ophelia

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‘the very grandeur of Hamlet’s rank narrows his freedom and… makes his possible licentiousness… all the more dangerous to Ophelia’

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‘Music and song which are often associated with insanity become her tools of expression’

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Sweta Bali

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Sweta Bali

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‘Music and song which are often associated with insanity become her tools of expression’

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‘Hamlet is the body politic, what the mind… is to the body - inside it… unable to act without its acquiescence’

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T. Wright

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T. Wright - Hamlet’s position

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‘Hamlet is the body politic, what the mind… is to the body - inside it… unable to act without its acquiescence’

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‘fail to see Gertrude for the strong-minded, intelligent succinct… woman that she is’

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Heilbrium

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Carolyn Heilbrium - other critics on gertrude

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‘fail to see Gertrude for the strong-minded, sensible, succinct… woman that she is’

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‘Laertes and Fortinbras are both representatives of action’

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Hall

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Hall - Laertes and Fortinbras

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‘Laertes and Fortinbras are both representatives of action’

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‘denies his conscience, his king, and his God’

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Prosser

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Prosser - Laertes

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‘denies his conscience, his king, and his God’

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‘morally empty’

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Schofield

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Schofield- Claudius

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‘morally empty’

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‘a cold-hearted devil, ready to gamble with his daughter’s distress to improve his own standing’

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Walter

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J.H. Walter - Polonius

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‘a cold-hearted devil, ready to gamble with his own daughter’s distress for his own standing’

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‘women in Hamlet are a sounding board for the action of male characters’

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Bloom

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Bloom- women

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‘women in Hamlet are a sounding board for the action of male characters’

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

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goethe

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Goethe - hamlet

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

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‘mix of comedy and tragedy made the plot more believable’

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Aaron hill

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Aaron Hill - mix

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‘mix of comedy and tragedy made the plot more believable’

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‘the story of a moral poisoning’

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Taine

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Taine- the play

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‘story of a moral poisoning’

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‘love and remorse and grief are the same in a peasant as a king’

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Bradley

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Bradley - tragedies

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‘love and remorse and grief are the same in a peasant as a king’

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‘men in shakespeare’s time were in perpetual fear of feminisation’

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Belsey

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Belsey - feminisation

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‘men in Shakespeare’s time were in constant fear of feminisation’

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‘her love for hamlet is made impossible by Hamlet’s misogynistic disgust at his mother’s speedy marriage’

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Lee Hyon-u

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Lee Hyon-u - Ophelia’s love

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‘Her love for Hamlet is made impossible by Hamlet’s misogynistic disgust at his mother’s speedy marriage’

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‘It is natural that Ophelia, who is confined within the walls of cruel reality should find her exit to the spiritual world’

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Lee Hyon-u

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Lee Hyon-u - Ophelia’s confinement

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‘It is natural that Ophelia, who is confined within the walls of cruel reality should find her exit to the spiritual world’

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‘interpret Ophrlia’s madness as shinbyong, which she acquires as she loses her ego in the chaotic reality… she reveals everything of the secret world’

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Lee Yun Taek - Ophelia’s madness

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Lee Yun Taek - Ophelia’s madness

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‘Interpret Ophelia’s madness as shinbyong, which she acquires as she loses her ego in the chaotic reality… she reveals everything of the secret world’

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‘individual woman are able to attain personal power through the agency of religious practice, because shamnism stands outside the boundaries of the Confucian social structure’

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C.H. Kim

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C.H. Kim . women’s power in religion

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‘individual woman are able to attain personal power through the agency of religious practice, because shamanism stands outside of the boundaries of the Confucian social structure’

49
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‘it is we who are Hamlet’

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Hazlitt

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Hazlitt

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‘it is we who are Hamlet’

51
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‘useless and wanton cruelty’

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Dr Johnson

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Dr Johnson

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‘useless and wanton cruelty’

53
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‘action could not change anything in the eternal nature of things’

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Nietzsche

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Nietzsche - action

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‘action could not change anything in the eternal nature of things’

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Lee Yun Taek’s 2005 production

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covered by white blanket and bare illuminated back showing purification

takes blanket with him showing purification of the world

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