Hamlet essay on death Flashcards

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Intro

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  • Hamlets fascination with death
  • his changing of perception of death from the ghost to the skull
  • Tudors obsession with mortality
  • death is laced in the play from the ghost to the bloodbath
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1st para subject

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  • Renaissance era, Hamlet is a humanist and thats why he is so fixated
  • hamlets fears on the after life, the questioning of his soul
  • He contemplates the idea of suicide and how people don’t do because of the unknown of whats after death and how it is the ultimate sin
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1st para quotes

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“gassing self slaughter! o god o god!”

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critics for 1st para

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“Regard for the eternal salvation of his soul …. to halt and consider” Herman Ulrici

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2nd para subject

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  • Protestant views of death
  • he is in a strange ossition of wanting death and fearing it
  • he is more concerned on where death takes you then the actual religious aspect of it
  • he uses rlegoin to try to prevent the killing of Claudius
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2nd para quotes

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“the undiscovered country whose bourn/ no traveler returns”

  • “conscience does make cowards of us all “
  • “A villain kills my father; and for that,I, his sole son, do this same villain sendTo heaven.”
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2nd para critics

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Bradley: Religion”Hamlet is unable to carry out the sacred duty, imposed by divine authority, of punishing an evil man by death”

“Hamlet is a figure of nilism asnd death” Wilson Knight

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3rd para subect

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  • death surrounds hamlet, all the way through the play, it starts with him mourning
  • the reason he is so fixated is because he needs to come to grips with it and we see this in the play
  • the castle is hamlets own type of purgoroty
  • Hamlet understands that he has to kill part of him to be able to kill Cladus
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3rd para critics

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“Hamlet can’t kill Claudius without killing himself” Ernest jones

We notice the genealogy from the miracle plays with their settings of heaven, hell, purgatory” - Midilton Murry

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