Hamlet critics Flashcards
- Herman Ulrici
- use for theme of death
- souls
“regard for ..
“Regard for the eternal salvation of his soul …. to halt and consider” Herman Ulrici
- David Farr
- death and loss
“inability to …
“Inability to deal with death and loss.”David Far
- Bradley
- revenge and death
- “hamlet is unable to ..
Bradley: Religion”Hamlet is unable to carry out the sacred duty, imposed by divine authority, of punishing an evil man by death
- Wilson Knight
- religion and death
“hamlet is a figure of …
“Hamlet is a figure of nihilism and death.”Wilson Knight
- Middleton Murry
- death and religion
“with the setting of …
with their settings of heaven, hell, purgatory” - Midilton Murry
- Ernest Jones
- death and revenge
“can can’t kill…
Hamlet can’t kill Claudius without killing himself”
- Phillip Edwards
- ghost, religion, death
- The ambiguity of ..
“The ambiguity of the ghost is of fundamental importan”
- Marilyn French
- g and r
- Bertayal
“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern sacrifce..
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern sacrifice the bond of human friendship to a coial propriety”
- Richard Altick
- corruption, betrayal and evil
- Claudius’ evil has
f Claudius’ evil has corrupted the whole kingdom of Denmark
Rebecca Smith
- Gertrude
- sex and betrayal
- “a sensual,
“a sensual, deceitful woman”
Kay Stanton
- the women
- bertral and love
- Getrude chose a brother
Gertrude chose a brother over a dead Hamlet; Ophelia chooses a father over a living Hamlet.”
AC Bradley
- betrysl
- love
- psion
- madness
- “hamlets whole mind is..
Hamlet’s whole mind is poisonedby the actions of his mother
- Knight
-evil and betrayal
“hamlet is an element…
“Hamlet is an element of evil in the state of Denmark” - Knight
- John Hunt
- revenge and betryal
“in order to act the part of a revenger …
In order to act the part of the revenger, he must become a bloody villain himself - John Hunt
- Andrew Hull
- Horatio
“the most under
the most under appreciated character in the play”.
- Johnson
- creulty and compassion
“hamlet is good but
Hamlet is good but shows moments of wanton cruelty
- Edwards
- on Opheila and cruelty
- “persistently..
persistently cruel to Ophelia - Edwards
- Samual Taylor Coleridge
- mp;ulsvess
- “hamlet is obliged to act ..
“Hamlet is obliged to act on the spur of the moment”
L.L Schuking
- emotions and compassion
- “hamlet cannot be …
“Hamlet cannot be comprehended except as a study of emotion”
Goethe
- compassion
“hamlet is of pure
“Hamlet is of pure, noble and most moral nature”Goethe
johnson
- revenge
“hamlet is more of a
“hamelt is more of a intrument then and agent of revenge
Colerridge
- revenge and action
“sensitive man ..
sensitive man paralyzed into inaction by the sheer capacity for thought”
Mallarme
- doubt
“the black presence
“ The black presence of this doubter causes the poison”
- julliet flemming
- doubt and thought
“the more a man thinks…
“the more a man thinks, the less he acts, and the more intellectually heroic he beocmes”
