Hamlet Critics Flashcards
1
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Sigmund Freud
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Hamlets desire to sleep with his mother comes from his identity
2
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Aristotle
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A hero should be morally good, tragedy must change from good to bad, hubris
3
Q
Pre-Raphaelites
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Ophelia death is romanticised through art, seen as sympathetic and presents the stereotype of a weak woman.
4
Q
Simone de Beauvoir
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Society expects each gender to behave in a distinct way. Ophelia is a sympathetic pawn.
5
Q
Hazlitt
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Hamlets soliloquies are as real as our own thoughts
6
Q
Johnson
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Hamlet makes no effort to punish Claudius
7
Q
A C Bradley
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Gertrude’s marriage provided a violent shock to hamlets moral being which caused him to sink into melancholy
8
Q
Lee Edwards
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Ophelia has no story without Hamlet
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10
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Harold Goddard
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The king is no villain
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