Hamlet Critics

Question 1

‘The Opening scene of hamlet is as well ____ as that of any play written before’ (_____)

Answer 1

Constructed, T.S Elliot

Question 2

‘The aim of a tragedy play is to arouse sensations of pity and ____’ (_____)

Answer 2

Fear, Aristotle.

Question 3

‘Claudius shows every sign of being an excellent _____ and king’ (______)

Answer 3

Diplomat, Knight.

Question 4

‘Ophelia is deprived of thought sexuality and ____’ (______)

Answer 4

Language, Showalter.

Question 5

‘In Shakespeare society, the ideal female is cherished for her ____, _____ and _____’ (_____)

Answer 5

Youth, Beauty, Purity, Rogers.

Question 6

‘All duties seem ____ to Hamlet’ (_____)

Answer 6

Holy, Van Goethe.

Question 7

‘Hamlet is rather an ____ than an _____’ (_____)

Answer 7

Instrument, Agent, Johnson

Question 8

‘Hamlet can be privileged in madness to say things about the _____ of human nature’ (_____)

Answer 8

Corruption, Mack

Question 9

‘Hamlet seems incapable of _____ action’ (______)

Answer 9

Deliberate, Hazlitt.

Question 10

‘Hamlets delay is due to … a form of _____’ (_____)

Answer 10

Melancholy, Bradley.

Question 11

‘The single characteristic of Hamlet’s character is by no means _____ but the strong conflux of contending forces’ (____)

Answer 11

Hesitation, Swinborne

Question 12

Hamlet is a _____ of thought’ (_____)

Answer 12

Tradgedy, Bradley

Question 13

We can imagine Hamlets storyline without _____, but ____ literally has no storyline without Hamlet.’ (______)

Answer 13

Ophelia, Ophelia, Edwards.

Question 14

‘Hamlet’s disgust at the feminine ____ in himself is translated into violent ____ against women.’ (_____)

Answer 14

Passivity, Revulsion, Swinborne

Question 15

‘Claudius is not a monster he is ____ weak’ (____)

Answer 15

Morally, Mabillard

Question 16

‘Claudius’ soliloquy gives the impression of rhetorical ____ rather than sincere _____’ (_____)

Answer 16

pageantry, contrition, Arnold

Question 17

‘____ is a moral defective’ (_____)

Answer 17

Gertrude, Muir

Question 18

‘The ghost is the ____ of Hamlet’ (____)

Answer 18

Linchpin, Wilson

Question 19

‘The absence of _____ _____ is central to Shakespearian tragedy’ (____)

Answer 19

Clear answers, Kastan.

Question 20

‘through ____, ophelia suddenly makes a _____ assertion of being’. (____)

Answer 20

Madness, forceful, charnley

Question 21

‘Hamlet’s madness is associated with ____ and ____ genius, but Ophelia’s affliction is _____ or love-madness’ (___)

Answer 21

Intellectual, imaginative, erotomania
Showalter.

Question 22

‘Laertes is like a _____. He rushes into the palace in an ______ rage, roaring for blood’ (____)

Answer 22

Hurricane, uncontrolled, Prosser

Question 23

‘Ophelia is a ‘____ we have really known.’ (_____)

Answer 23

Lesser, Kerrigan

Question 24

‘In the final act, Hamlet _____ his world and we discover a different man’ (____)

Answer 24

Accepts, Mack

Question 25

‘Hamlet is a tragedy without ____’ (____)

Answer 25

Catharsis, Frye

Question 26

‘Hamlet poses great problems for the ____ ____ theory because he is patently not a hero’ (___)

Answer 26

Tragic , Hero , O’Toole