Hamlet-Critics Flashcards
Belsen: Revenge and justice?
“Revenge is not justice it is rather an act of injustice on behalf of justice.”
C.S.Lewis on death?
“Hamlet is haunted, not by a physical fear of dying, but of being dead.”
Bornstein on women?
Women are often given the same advice that its given to servants… Chasity, piety and obedience.”
Herbert Tree on madness?
“For humor he goes mad. Sanity is humor.”
Belsey on morality?
“Revenge exists on a margin between justice and crime.”
Goethe on Hamlet?
“All duties seem holy for Hamlet.”
Swinburne on Hamlet: his main characteristic is…
“By no means resolution or hesitation… but the strong confusion of contending forces.”
Stanton on Gertrude?
“Gertrude chose a brother over a dead Hamlet; Ophelia choses a father over a living Hamlet.”
Showalter on Ophelia?
Ophelia “represents the strong emotions that the elizabethans thought womanist.”
Smith on Polonius?
“Polonius seems to love his children… His actions, however, are totally corrupt.”
French on R &G?
“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern sacrifice the bond of human friendship to a social propriety.”
Francis Bacon on revenge?
in taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy.
Andrew Brown on Procrastination?
He is a thinker in a society of do-er’s
Janet Adelman on Hamlet’s Mum? 🙍♀️🔪
(hamlet) manages to achieve his revenge only when he can avenge his mother’s death, not his father’s - (Oedipus complex?).
