Hamlet: Critics COPY Flashcards
‘All duties seem _________ to Hamlet’ (Von Goethe)
holy
‘_____________ is not a monster, he is morally weak’ (Mabillard)
Claudius
Which critic?
‘Claudius’ soliloquy gives the impression of rhetorical pageantry rather than sincere contrition.’
Arnold
‘Through madness, Ophelia suddenly makes a _________/____________ of her being’ (Charney)
forceful assertion
Which critic?
‘Laertes is like a hurricane’
Prosser
‘The aim of tragedy is to arouse sensations of_______ and ________’
(Aristotle)
pity and fear
‘The opening scene of Hamlet is as well _______ as that of any play ever written’ (T.S. Eliot)
constructed
‘Claudius shows every sign of being an excellent ________ and king’ (Knight)
diplomat
‘Ophelia is deprived of thought, _______ and _________’ (Showalter)
sexuality and language
Which critic said:
‘Opelia is deprived of thought, sexuality and language’?
Showalter
‘In Shakespeare’s society, the ideal female is cherished for her youth, ___________ and purity’ (Rogers)
beauty
Which critic said:
‘In Shakespeare’s society, the ideal female is cherished for her youth, beauty and purity’
Rogers
Hamlet can be privileged in madness to say things about the corruption of __________/___________ (Mack)
human behaviour
‘Hamlet seems incapable of ___________ action’ (Hazlitt)
deliberate
‘Hamlet’s delay is due to…a form of _____________’ (Bradley)
melancholy
‘The single characteristic of Hamlet’s character is by no means hesitation but the strong conflux of ___________ forces.’ (Swinbourne)
contending
Which critic?
‘Hamlet is a tragedy of thought.’
Bradley
‘Hamlet is a tragedy of ______________.’ (Bradley)
thought
Which critic?
‘The single characteristic of Hamlet’s character is by no means hesitation but the strong conflux of contending forces.’
Swinbourne
‘We can imagine Hamlet’s story without _________ but ____________ literally has no story without Hamlet.’
(Edwards)
Ophelia
Which critic?
‘We can imagine Hamlet’s story without Ophelia, but Ophelia literally has no story without Hamlet.’
Edwards
‘Claudius is not a ______________, he is morally weak’ (Mabillard)
monster
‘Claudius is not a monster, he is morally _____________’ (Mabillard)
weak
‘Claudius’ soliloquy gives the impression of _____________ pageantry rather than sincere contrition.’ (Arnold)
rhetorical
‘Claudius’ soliloquy gives the impression of rhetorical pageantry rather than sincere ______________.’ (Arnold)
contrition
‘Gertrude is a moral ________________’ (Muir)
defective
‘Gertrude is a ____________ defective’ (Muir)
moral
‘The ghost is the _______ of Hamlet’ (Wilson)
linchpin
Which critic
‘Through madness, Ophelia suddenly makes a forceful assertion of her being’
Charney
‘In the final act, Hamlet accepts his world and we discover a ____________/__________’ (Mack)
different man
Which critic?
‘In the final act, Hamlet accepts his world and we discover a different man’
Mack
‘Hamlet is a tragedy without _____________’ (Frye)
catharsis
Which critic?
‘Hamlet is a tragedy without catharsis’
Frye
Which critic?
‘Women are either innocent maiden saints or loathsome sinners.’
Mcgrory
‘Women are either innocent maiden saints or ______________________.’
‘loathsome sinners’
Who says: Hamlet’s disgust at the feminine passivity in himself is translated into violent revulsion agaianst women
Showalter quoting Leverenz
Which critic?
‘Polonius seems to love his children….his means of action however are totally corrupt’
Smith
Hamlet’s at the feminine passivity in himself is translated into violent agaianst women (Showalter quoting Leverenz)
disgust / revulsion
Who says: Despite his ostensible agenda of revenge, the main psychological task
that Hamlet seems to set himself is not to avenge his father’s death but to remake his mother
Adelman
Who says: Throughout the play, the covert drama of reformation vies for priority with the overt drama of revenge
Adelman
Adelman
Throughout the play, the covert drama of vies for priority with the overt drama of .
Reforrmation / revenge
The absence of clear answers to questions is central to Shakespearean tragedy
Kastan
Ophelia’s… natural carelessness of innocence
Coleridge
The strange and forced manner of Ophelia, …..was not acting a part of her own, but was a decoy
Coleridge
What point in the play is Coleridge referring to here:
The strange and forced manner of Ophelia, …..was not acting a part of her own, but was a decoy
Act 3 scene 1
The soliloquy of Ophelia, which follows, is the perfection of love—so exquisitely unselfish!
Coleridge
Who says: ‘Hamlet senses that he too has become part of a larger process: the plot of Providence as scripted by the divine Playwright’
Calderwood
Hamlet senses that he too has become part of a larger process: the plot of as scripted by the Playwright’
Providence / divine
