Hamlet - Symbols Flashcards

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the skull and crossbones - piracy

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  • driven by characters and themes, so it has less symbolism than usual
  • don’t learn the theme so much through symbols
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skull-death

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  • helps hamlet to rationalize that death is real

- allows hamlet to consider mortality and sets up the reader for hamlet’s death

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hamlet’s black clothes

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grief

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flowers - many symbols

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  • ophelia explicitly explains the symbolism of all the flowers but does not say who all the flowers are given to
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ophelia’s thoughts

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pansies

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answers

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  • it represents the sorrow and turmoil
  • object in literature stands for something
  • it represents death
  • represents different things
  • dressing in all black
  • the ghost of his father
  • represent different things
  • intense internal sorrow
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