Paper 1 AO5 Flashcards
What does McEvoy say about Claudius?
He is an “effective modern ruler” who “genuinely loves Gertrude”
What does Woods say that Hamlet does?
“polices the boundaries between performance and reality”
What does Stephenson say the action of Hamlet is due to?
“Hamlet’s action is due to the utter failure and collapse of his plan to compromise the king by the Mouse Trap”
What does Edwards say about Ophelia’s story?
“We can imagine Hamlet’s story without Ophelia, but Ophelia literally has no story without Hamlet”
What does Hytner say about theatre in Hamlet?
It is a “weapon to discover the truth” that is a “loaded and complex metaphor in the play”
What does Smith say about Hamlet (the character)?
He is “stuck, physically and mentally”
What does Smith say about Hamlet (the play)?
It is a “play preoccupied with the past”
What does Robinson say about Polonius’ death?
It is a “symbol of Shakespeare’s attack on patriarchy”
What does Champion say about the roles of the soliloquies?
It “ultimately clarifies the protagonist’s personality”
What does Wagner say about the role of Ophelia?
“Ophelia serves the play of Hamlet essentially as a useful device used by Hamlet, Polonius and Shakespeare himself”
What does Knight say about Hamlet’s character?
“Hamlet is an element of evil in the state of Denmark”
What does Knight say about Claudius’ responsibility?
“Claudius can hardly be blamed for his later actions. They are forced on him”
What does Johnson say about Hamlet’s character?
“Hamlet is, through the whole play, rather an instrument than an agent”
What does Shaw say about Hamlet’s revenge?
“If Hamlet had not delayed his revenge, there would’ve been no play”
What does Shaw say about Hamlet’s madness?
“Hamlet feigns his madness episodically”
What does Dreher say about Polonius?
“the most reprehensible father”
What does Mack about Polonius?
“always either behind an arras or prying into one”
What does Shucking say about the to be or not to be soliloquy?
“unlike the other soliloquies, this shows no sign of belonging to the particular scene in which it appears”
What does Rosenblum say about Rossetti’s poetry?
“the central paradox of her career: that she became famous for speaking of silence and oblivion”
What did the Saturday Review in 1877 say about Christina’s poetry?
“there is not much thinking in them, not much high or deep feeling”
How does Virginia Woolf criticise Rossetti?
Her poetry is suffocated by her religious views.
What does Lynda Palazzo say about The Goblin Market?
“Rossetti has radically rewritten the fall of Eve (…) and includes more than a hint that male gender oppression be interpreted as original sin”
What does Simone de Beauvoir say about women and objects?
“in a patriarchal culture woman inevitably experiences herself as object and other”
What does Bowra say about Rossetti’s sentiments about love?
“love released a melancholy desire for death”
