(Hamlet) Deceit
- Created by: NHow02
- Created on: 27-05-19 20:23
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- Deceit
- Surveillance
- 'like a mildewed ear' (Act 3, Scene 4)
- Fungus-like imagery (obscures/ infects reality)
- This exemplifies Claudius’ manipulation of language to persuade and distort the truth.
- Simile refers to Claudius murdering Old Hamlet by pouring poison into his ear
- 'draw', 'gather' + 'glean' (Act 2, Scene 2)
- Represents Elizabethan surveillance state (predatory effect)
- Shakespeare worked in a legal office for a short time
- Knight: 'enmeshed by the chain of casualty'
- Represents Elizabethan surveillance state (predatory effect)
- Fungus-like imagery (obscures/ infects reality)
- 'where the truth is hid, though it were hid indeed within the centre'
- Polonius had been advisor to Old Hamlet (represents the old state of Denmark)
- Audience would have identified him with the rule of young & powerful Elizabeth
- Hudson: 'wishes to do his entire duty'
- Polonius had been advisor to Old Hamlet (represents the old state of Denmark)
- 'like a mildewed ear' (Act 3, Scene 4)
- Ophelia
- 'weedy trophies'
- Suggests her virginity is her only virtue, as flowers symbolise fertility
- Ophelia's 'trophies' are corrupted by society and her means of survival destroyed
- 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
- 'weedy trophies'
- Hamlet
- 'That sucked the honey of his music vows'
- Sensual words 'honey'/ 'music' creates an alluring effect
- Christian belief in temptation. Ironic as women were seen as 'temptresses'
- 'lends the tongue vows'
- Protestant belief that the Devil arrives in disguise
- 'speaking in tongues'
- Protestant belief that the Devil arrives in disguise
- Sensual words 'honey'/ 'music' creates an alluring effect
- 'ungartered...his knees knocking'
- Soft alliteration emphasises comedic quality to Hamlet's acting
- Melodramatic(vibrant language) - aspect of the revenge tragedy
- Soft alliteration emphasises comedic quality to Hamlet's acting
- 'Though this be madness, yet there is method in't'
- 'm' alliteration suggests the two have become muddled
- Influenced by Thomas Kyd's 'Spanish Tragedy' (both act as if mad)
- 'm' alliteration suggests the two have become muddled
- 'That sucked the honey of his music vows'
- Religion
- 'guilty things', 'apparition' & 'it'
- The credibility of the ghost is in question
- Catholic idea of purgatory (Hamlet also trapped by revenge)
- Edmund Campion was discovered hiding in Berkshire Manor (hung, drawn & quartered)
- Protestant audience would have been more wary (devil in disguise)
- Catholic idea of purgatory (Hamlet also trapped by revenge)
- Swinburne: "the strong conflux of contending forces."
- The credibility of the ghost is in question
- 'bow stubborn knees'
- Command 'bow' suggests he's incapable of genuinely good behavior
- His words are a facade because he fears Hell
- Reference to Wittenberg = Shakespeare rejected Catholic indulgences
- 'revenge should have no bounds'
- Machiavellian- 'The Prince' in 1532 (one had to be 'ruthless' to be the best ruler)
- Command 'bow' suggests he's incapable of genuinely good behavior
- 'guilty things', 'apparition' & 'it'
- Surveillance
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