Hamlet critics Flashcards
Ophelia’s function in the play is vital
Barber
Barber - Ophelia’s function
Ophelia’s function in the play is vital
‘pleasing men is Gertrude’s main interest’
Smith
Smith - Gertrude
‘pleasing men is Gertrude’s main interest’
‘Rosencrantz and guildenstern sacrifice the bond of human friendship to a social propriety’
Marilyn French
Marilyn French - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern sacrifice the bond of human friendship to a social propriety’
‘That piece of bait named Ophelia’
Lacan
Lacan - Ophelia
‘That piece of bait named Ophelia’
‘Ophelia has no chance to develop an independent conscience’
Dusinberre
Dusinberre - Ophelia
‘Ophelia has no chance to develop an independent conscience’
Gertrude’s ‘negative and insignificant’
Elliot
T.S Elliot - Gertrude
Gertrude’s ‘negative and insignificant’
‘The very grandeur of Hamlet’s rank narrows his freedom and… makes his possible licentiousness… all the more dangerous to Ophelia’
T. Wright
T. Wright - Hamlet’s effect on Ophelia
‘the very grandeur of Hamlet’s rank narrows his freedom and… makes his possible licentiousness… all the more dangerous to Ophelia’
‘Music and song which are often associated with insanity become her tools of expression’
Sweta Bali
Sweta Bali
‘Music and song which are often associated with insanity become her tools of expression’
‘Hamlet is the body politic, what the mind… is to the body - inside it… unable to act without its acquiescence’
T. Wright
T. Wright - Hamlet’s position
‘Hamlet is the body politic, what the mind… is to the body - inside it… unable to act without its acquiescence’
‘fail to see Gertrude for the strong-minded, intelligent succinct… woman that she is’
Heilbrium
Carolyn Heilbrium - other critics on gertrude
‘fail to see Gertrude for the strong-minded, sensible, succinct… woman that she is’
‘Laertes and Fortinbras are both representatives of action’
Hall
Hall - Laertes and Fortinbras
‘Laertes and Fortinbras are both representatives of action’
‘denies his conscience, his king, and his God’
Prosser
Prosser - Laertes
‘denies his conscience, his king, and his God’
‘morally empty’
Schofield
Schofield- Claudius
‘morally empty’
‘a cold-hearted devil, ready to gamble with his daughter’s distress to improve his own standing’
Walter
J.H. Walter - Polonius
‘a cold-hearted devil, ready to gamble with his own daughter’s distress for his own standing’
‘women in Hamlet are a sounding board for the action of male characters’
Bloom
Bloom- women
‘women in Hamlet are a sounding board for the action of male characters’
‘a poetic morally sensitive soul crushed by the barbarous task of murder’
goethe
Goethe - hamlet
‘a poetic morally sensitive soul crushed by the barbarous task of murder’
‘mix of comedy and tragedy made the plot more believable’
Aaron hill
Aaron Hill - mix
‘mix of comedy and tragedy made the plot more believable’
‘the story of a moral poisoning’
Taine
Taine- the play
‘story of a moral poisoning’
‘love and remorse and grief are the same in a peasant as a king’
Bradley
Bradley - tragedies
‘love and remorse and grief are the same in a peasant as a king’
‘men in shakespeare’s time were in perpetual fear of feminisation’
Belsey
Belsey - feminisation
‘men in Shakespeare’s time were in constant fear of feminisation’
‘her love for hamlet is made impossible by Hamlet’s misogynistic disgust at his mother’s speedy marriage’
Lee Hyon-u
Lee Hyon-u - Ophelia’s love
‘Her love for Hamlet is made impossible by Hamlet’s misogynistic disgust at his mother’s speedy marriage’
‘It is natural that Ophelia, who is confined within the walls of cruel reality should find her exit to the spiritual world’
Lee Hyon-u
Lee Hyon-u - Ophelia’s confinement
‘It is natural that Ophelia, who is confined within the walls of cruel reality should find her exit to the spiritual world’
‘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’
Lee Yun Taek - Ophelia’s madness
Lee Yun Taek - Ophelia’s madness
‘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’
‘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’
C.H. Kim
C.H. Kim . women’s power in religion
‘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’
‘it is we who are Hamlet’
Hazlitt
Hazlitt
‘it is we who are Hamlet’
‘useless and wanton cruelty’
Dr Johnson
Dr Johnson
‘useless and wanton cruelty’
‘action could not change anything in the eternal nature of things’
Nietzsche
Nietzsche - action
‘action could not change anything in the eternal nature of things’
Lee Yun Taek’s 2005 production
covered by white blanket and bare illuminated back showing purification
takes blanket with him showing purification of the world
