(Hamlet) Death
- Created by: NHow02
- Created on: 27-05-19 13:42
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- Death
- Cycle of revenge
- Hyperbole: 'fall ten times treble on that cursed head'
- Identifies as Malcontent (like Hamlet) - cycle of grief & revenge
- Presents a reflection of Hamlet (play acts as a mirror for Hamlet)
- O'Toole: 'Death is the picture, not he frame'
- 'my father's spirit'
- Quick to accept it as his father (needs guidance)
- Pronoun takes responsibility of father's soul
- Protestant audience would have been more wary (devil in disguise)
- Pronoun takes responsibility of father's soul
- Catholic idea of purgatory (Hamlet also trapped by revenge)
- Swinburne: "the strong conflux of contending forces."
- Hamlet's struggle reflects religious division (reformation & restoration)
- Quick to accept it as his father (needs guidance)
- Hyperbole: 'fall ten times treble on that cursed head'
- Suicide
- 'when we have shuffled off this mortal coil'
- 'coil' creates an image of entrapment
- sibilance of 'shuffled' creates a reluctant effect
- Revenge tragedy often ends with the hero's death
- Suicidal thoughts (a sin in Elizabethan times)
- Confuses 'to die, to sleep - '
- Shakespeare challenges Kyd's Spanish Tragedy (Hamlet wishes to escape duty)
- Confuses 'to die, to sleep - '
- 'sea of troubles'
- Elizabeth audience would have resonated with the dangers of the ocean
- Sir Frances led glorious escapades (paralleled with wooden ships)
- 'There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow'
- Biblical reference: symbol for God’s infinite control & care
- Small bird suggests insignificance(omen of death)
- 'providence' = God's intervention (natural order/ acceptance)
- Elizabeth audience would have resonated with the dangers of the ocean
- 'weedy trophies'
- Oxymoron suggests as a highborn lady she is partially exempt from a suicide's funeral
- Suicide was seen as a sin as your life was not your own, but belonged to God
- Suggests her virginity is her only virtue, as flowers symbolise fertility
- Ophelia's 'trophies' are corrupted by society and her means of survival destroyed
- 'unweeded garden'
- References the Garden of Eden (but overgrown)
- Bible teaches that women are subordinate and to blame for the fall of man
- She inadvertently contributes to the corruption of society
- Biological Determinism
- References the Garden of Eden (but overgrown)
- Oxymoron suggests as a highborn lady she is partially exempt from a suicide's funeral
- 'when we have shuffled off this mortal coil'
- Cycle of revenge
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