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Question 1

Adelman 1 (agenda of revenge…not to avenge…but to)

Answer 1

‘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’

Question 2

Adelman 2 (covert/overt)

Answer 2

‘the covert drama of reformation vies for priority with the overt drama of revenge’

Question 3

Aristotle (sensations…)

Answer 3

‘the aim of tragedy is to arouse sensations of pity and fear’

Question 4

Arnold (rhetorical)

Answer 4

‘Claudius’ soliloquy gives the impression of rhetorical pageantry rather than sincere contrition’

Question 5

Bradley (tragedy of…)

Answer 5

‘Hamlet is a tragedy of thought’

Question 6

Bradley 2 (…melancholy)

Answer 6

‘Hamlet’s delay is due to a form of melancholy’

Question 7

Calderwood (larger process…plot of providence…divine playwright)

Answer 7

‘Hamlet senses that he too has become part of a larger process: the plot of Providence as scripted by the divine Playwright’

Question 8

Charney (forceful)

Answer 8

‘through madness, Ophelia suddenly makes a forceful assertion of her being’

Question 9

Coleridge (carelessness)

Answer 9

‘Ophelia’s… natural carelessness of innocence’

Question 10

Coleridge 2 (exquisitely unselfish)

Answer 10

‘The soliloquy of Ophelia, which follows, is the perfection of love—so exquisitely unselfish!’

Question 11

Coleridge 3 (…decoy)

Answer 11

‘The strange and forced manner of Ophelia, …..was not acting a part of her own, but was a decoy’

Question 12

Edwards (Hamlet’s story…)

Answer 12

‘We can imagine Hamlet’s story without Ophelia, but Ophelia literally has no story without Hamlet.’

Question 13

Frye (catharsis)

Answer 13

‘Hamlet is a tragedy without catharsis’

Question 14

Hazlitt (incapable of…)

Answer 14

‘Hamlet seems incapable of deliberate action’

Question 15

Kastan (absence of…)

Answer 15

‘The absence of clear answers to questions is central to Shakespearean tragedy’

Question 16

Knight (excellent…)

Answer 16

‘Claudius shows every sign of being an excellent diplomat and king’

Question 17

Mabillard (monster)

Answer 17

‘Claudius is not a monster, he is morally weak’

Question 18

Mack (corruption of human…)

Answer 18

‘Hamlet can be privileged in madness to say things about corruption of human behaviour’

Question 19

Mack 2 (final act…discover)

Answer 19

‘In the final act, Hamlet accepts his world and we discover a different man’

Question 20

Mcgrory (women are either…)

Answer 20

‘Women are either innocent maiden saints or loathsome sinners.’

Question 21

Muir (Gertrude)

Answer 21

‘Gertrude is a moral defective’

Question 22

Prosser (Laertes…)

Answer 22

‘Laertes is like a hurricane’

Question 23

Rogers (ideal female…)

Answer 23

‘the ideal female is cherished for her youth, beauty and purity’

Question 24

Showalter quoting Laverenz (Hamlet’s disgust…)

Answer 24

‘Hamlet’s disgust at the feminine passivity in himself is translated into violent revulsion agaianst women’

Question 25

Showalter (Ophelia is…)

Answer 25

‘Ophelia is deprived of thought, sexuality and language’

Question 26

Smith (Polonius…)

Answer 26

‘Polonius seems to love his children….his means of action however are totally corrupt’

Question 27

Swinbourne (single characteristic of Hamlet’s character…)

Answer 27

‘The single characteristic of Hamlet’s character is by no means hesitation but the strong conflux of contending forces.’

Question 28

T.S Elliot (opening)

Answer 28

‘the opening scene of Hamlet is as well constructed as that of any play ever written’

Question 29

Van Gothe (holy)

Answer 29

‘all duties seem holy to Hamlet’

Question 30

Wilson (linchpin)

Answer 30

‘The ghost is the linchpin of Hamlet’