Hamlet Romanticism Flashcards
What is Romanticism?
Romanticism was an intellectual movement in the late 18th Century a and early 19th century.
Which intellectual movement was a reaction against scientific reason?
Romanticism
What did Romantics focus on?
Romantics focused on beauty and the individual.
What did the Romantics encourage people to value?
Romantics encouraged people to value their emotions
What did the critics in the late 18th and early 19th century focus on in terms of the play Hamlet?
They focused mainly on Hamlet’s character and physiological state.
Romantic critics were usually about authors who wrote about how…
The individual could affected by things like isolation, melancholy and personal misery. This meant that they could RELATE to Hamlet.
What did Coleridge say about him and Hamlet?
That he saw a ‘smack of Hamlet’ in himself.
What did Romantics link Hamlet’s delay with?
With his intellect
Romantics preferred to study the play as a…
A text, not a dramatic production
What does Goethe suggest about Hamlet’s thoughts and actions?
Goethe suggests that Hamlet is so highly intelligent that he is unable to balance his thoughts and actions!
Hamlet can’t reconcile his morality with the…
Horrible act that he’s been asked to commit
