Traits Flashcards
Ophelia traits
Honesty
Naivity
Vulnerability
Rebellious
Submissive
Ophelia madness
Flower representation
Rosemary - rememberance Pansies - thought Fennel - flattery - Claudius Columbines - adultry - Gertrude Rue - repentance Daisy - broken hearts Violets - fidelity - withered when dad died
Ophelia madness
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’
Ophelia on revenge
‘My brother shall know of it’
‘I dare damnation’ (Laertes - fuels his revenge)
Internalises revenge
Ophelia on love and loss
‘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
Ophelia on death
‘She fell in the weeping brook’ - poetic
‘Not a gentle woman… would have been out a Christian burial’
Ophelia on appearance vs reality
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’
Ophelia on power gender politics
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’
Horatio character
Moral tombstone
Skeptic ‘twill not appear’
Uncorrupt ‘indeed.. it followed hard upon’ - marriage
Christian ‘heaven will direct us’
‘Not passions slave’
Gertrude
Rebellion and power
‘Do not drink’
‘I will my lord’
Corrects Claudius ‘Thanks Guildenstern and gentle rosencrantz Synatactic parellelism Subtle rebellion against Claudius Power
Gertrude guilt
The lady doth protest too much me thinks
I will not speak with her
His father’s death and out o’er hasty marriage
Gertrude maternal
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
Gertrude
Corruption
Player queen ‘none wed the second but who killed the first’
‘Within a month’
‘Cast off thy nightly colour’
‘Incestuous sheets’
Critic on women
‘Through madness, the women on stage can suddenly make a forceful assertion of their being
~ Charney
Characteristic of Polonius
Sycophant ‘Both to my God and my gracious king’
Hypocrite ‘give thy thoughts no tongue’
‘I’ll loose my daughter to him’
What function does Polonius have in the play
Comic relief - his verbosity can provide humour to the audience
Death - catalyst
Polonius eulogy
Thou wretched rash intruding fool farewell
Laertes as hot headed - revenge
‘Where is the king’
Commanding, monosyllabic a
‘Give me my father’
Inperatives, hot headed
‘Vile king’
Adjective
Laertes morality
I do receive your offered love like love
[leaps into the grave]
I can no more - the king, the kings to blame
Laertes As An extension of his father
To show my duty in your coronation
Prioritised over funeral to show loyalty
Laertes on gender politics
‘Honour’
‘Chaste’
First impressions of Claudius
Blank verse
Controlled rhythm
‘We have here writ to Norway’ - diplomat
Hamlet on madnes
‘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
Hamlet on death and the supernatural
Obsessed with death
Worries about undiscovered country ‘to be…’
Death of yorick ‘fear and infinite jest’
Protestant v catholic views
Kills 4 people
Hamlet on women
‘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
Hamlet on revenge
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
Hamlet rashly killing Polonius
[makes a pass through the arras]
Hamlets reaction when/while killing Claudius
‘Incestuos, murderous, damned Dane’
When was hamlet performed
1603
Great chain of being
Patriarchy
Set social class
End of Elizabethan era - no husband- powerful female. Puritan but tolerate
Blank verse V prose
Claudius blank verse at start and during soliloquy
Hamlet - changes depending. Nunnery scene - prose mad. Grave - pros - adapting - good king
Ophelia solil - blank verse
