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Traits Flashcards

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Ophelia traits

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Honesty

Naivity

Vulnerability

Rebellious

Submissive

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Ophelia madness

Flower representation

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Rosemary - rememberance 
Pansies - thought 
Fennel - flattery - Claudius 
Columbines - adultry - Gertrude 
Rue - repentance 
Daisy - broken hearts 
Violets - fidelity - withered when dad died
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Ophelia madness

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Act 4- speaks in prose

FOIL

Irony - everyone listens most when she’s mad

Vulnerability - after father’s dead

‘Before you tumbled me/ you promised me to wed’

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Ophelia on revenge

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‘My brother shall know of it’

‘I dare damnation’ (Laertes - fuels his revenge)

Internalises revenge

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Ophelia on love and loss

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‘I did love you once’

[leaps in grave]

‘Thou shouldn’t have been Hamlets wife’

Polonius - adamnet hat love was cause for hamlets madness ‘sprung from neglected love’

Absence of mother figure and Gertrude is not a good one

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Ophelia on death

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‘She fell in the weeping brook’ - poetic

‘Not a gentle woman… would have been out a Christian burial’

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Ophelia on appearance vs reality

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Used by Claudius and Polonius for spying
‘We heard it all’ - Polonius fails to acknowledge her feelings

After madness - talks to king ‘we know what we are but know not what we may be’

Nunnery scene ‘you made me believe so’

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Ophelia on power gender politics

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Cracked under patriarchal pressure

P- ‘I’ll loose my daughter to him’

Hamlet and Laertes fight over who loves her more ‘forty thousand brothers’

Claudius ‘poor Ophelia’

Laertes ‘chaste treasure’

Submissive ‘I shall obey my lord’

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Horatio character

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Moral tombstone

Skeptic ‘twill not appear’

Uncorrupt ‘indeed.. it followed hard upon’ - marriage

Christian ‘heaven will direct us’

‘Not passions slave’

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Gertrude

Rebellion and power

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‘Do not drink’
‘I will my lord’

Corrects Claudius 
‘Thanks Guildenstern and gentle rosencrantz 
Synatactic parellelism 
Subtle rebellion against Claudius 
Power
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Gertrude guilt

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The lady doth protest too much me thinks

I will not speak with her

His father’s death and out o’er hasty marriage

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Gertrude maternal

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I pray thee stay with us; go not to Wittenberg
-but could just be submissive to Claudius

Closet scend - sweet Hamlet

I hoped thou should’st have been hamlets wife

Madness - on hamlets side

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Gertrude

Corruption

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Player queen ‘none wed the second but who killed the first’

‘Within a month’

‘Cast off thy nightly colour’

‘Incestuous sheets’

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Critic on women

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‘Through madness, the women on stage can suddenly make a forceful assertion of their being

~ Charney

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Characteristic of Polonius

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Sycophant ‘Both to my God and my gracious king’

Hypocrite ‘give thy thoughts no tongue’

‘I’ll loose my daughter to him’

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What function does Polonius have in the play

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Comic relief - his verbosity can provide humour to the audience

Death - catalyst

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Polonius eulogy

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Thou wretched rash intruding fool farewell

18
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Laertes as hot headed - revenge

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‘Where is the king’
Commanding, monosyllabic a

‘Give me my father’
Inperatives, hot headed

‘Vile king’
Adjective

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Laertes morality

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I do receive your offered love like love

[leaps into the grave]

I can no more - the king, the kings to blame

20
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Laertes As An extension of his father

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To show my duty in your coronation

Prioritised over funeral to show loyalty

21
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Laertes on gender politics

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‘Honour’

‘Chaste’

22
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First impressions of Claudius

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Blank verse
Controlled rhythm

‘We have here writ to Norway’ - diplomat

23
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Hamlet on madnes

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‘Mad in craft’
Said put on an ‘antic disposition’
Nunnery scene VULGAR
David tenant - caught spying

Is he mad

Yes 
Kills Polonius 
Treatment of Ophelia 
Kills R+G 
Closet scene

No
Calls Polonius ‘pimp- not nonsense but bitter satire
-‘mad in craft’ - to G
-‘cruel only to be kind’- go Gertrude and POSs Ophelia
-Get thee to a nunnery’

FOIL TO OPHELIA

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Hamlet on death and the supernatural

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Obsessed with death
Worries about undiscovered country ‘to be…’

Death of yorick ‘fear and infinite jest’

Protestant v catholic views

Kills 4 people

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Hamlet on women

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‘Frailty, thy name is woman’

-Oedipus Mel Gibson production

‘I loved you not’ - Ophelia

‘Breaded of sinners’

Yet 2 times critics contemplate whether he truly descends into madness - nunnery and closet scene

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Hamlet on revenge

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The action of hunting or burning someone in return for an injury/wrong suffering at their hands

ROMAN vs CHRISTIAN code of honour

Hamlet wrestled with conscience and is puzzled with ghost and delays revenge

His university is Protestant. Purgatory is not a Protestant belief

27
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Hamlet rashly killing Polonius

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[makes a pass through the arras]

28
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Hamlets reaction when/while killing Claudius

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‘Incestuos, murderous, damned Dane’

29
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When was hamlet performed

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1603

Great chain of being

Patriarchy

Set social class

End of Elizabethan era - no husband- powerful female. Puritan but tolerate

30
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Blank verse V prose

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Claudius blank verse at start and during soliloquy

Hamlet - changes depending. Nunnery scene - prose mad. Grave - pros - adapting - good king

Ophelia solil - blank verse

Hamlet (26 decks)

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