Hamlet - Symbols Flashcards
1
Q
the skull and crossbones - piracy
A
- driven by characters and themes, so it has less symbolism than usual
- don’t learn the theme so much through symbols
2
Q
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
3
Q
hamlet’s black clothes
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grief
4
Q
flowers - many symbols
A
- ophelia explicitly explains the symbolism of all the flowers but does not say who all the flowers are given to
5
Q
ophelia’s thoughts
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pansies
6
Q
answers
A
- 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