(Hamlet) Hamlet
- Created by: NHow02
- Created on: 26-05-19 10:42
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- Hamlet
- As misled
- 'my father's spirit'
- Quick to accept it as his father (needs guidance)
- Pronoun takes responsibility of father's soul
- 'I'll follow thee'
- Establishes commitment to enact revenge ('into madness')
- Protestant audience would have been more wary (devil in disguise)
- Catholic idea of purgatory (Hamlet also trapped by revenge)
- Hamlet's struggle reflects religious division (reformation & restoration)
- Swinburne: "the strong conflux of contending forces."
- Earl of Southampton& father known as Catholic
- Hamlet's struggle reflects religious division (reformation & restoration)
- Quick to accept it as his father (needs guidance)
- 'Nemean lion's nerve'
- Hercules strangled a lion without nerves (felt no pain)
- Lions are also seen as symbols of courage (common charge in heraldry)
- Nasal alliteration slow pace (soft consonance suggests hesitation)
- Hanmer: his action is 'unworthy of a hero'
- Hercules strangled a lion without nerves (felt no pain)
- ''That sucked the honey of his music vows' (Act 3, Scene 1)
- Sensual words 'honey'/ 'music' creates an alluring effect
- Sweetness suggests an overload of senses (inability to trust senses)
- Hamlet makes satirical comments with double meanings
- Sensual words 'honey'/ 'music' creates an alluring effect
- 'my father's spirit'
- As Suicidal
- 'There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow'
- Biblical reference: symbol for God’s infinite control & care
- Hamlet accepts death peacefully
- 'providence' = God's intervention (natural order)
- Small bird suggests insignificance(omen of death)
- Biblical reference: symbol for God’s infinite control & care
- 'when we have shuffled off this mortal coil'
- 'coil' creates an image of entrapment
- sibilance of 'shuffled' creates a reluctant effect
- Hamlet is unable to take action due to his over-contemplation of death
- Confuses 'to die, to sleep - '
- O'Toole: 'death is the picture, not he frame'
- Confuses 'to die, to sleep - '
- Hamlet is unable to take action due to his over-contemplation of death
- 'There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow'
- As the Malcontent
- 'I am too much I'th'sun'
- Double meanings introduce Hamlet as an intellectual character
- Hamlet finds himself too closely related to Claudius (literally & otherwise)
- 'If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a good kissing carrion'
- 'Carrion' could mean a crow (omen of death) or dead flesh (associates female love with death)
- Cutting 'c' alliteration creates a violent effect + but also suggests brevity
- 'dead dog' suggests loyalty leads to death OR counts for nothing
- 'Let her not walk i'th'sun'
- Wants to protect Ophelia from himself
- 'Carrion' could mean a crow (omen of death) or dead flesh (associates female love with death)
- Hyppolyte Taine: 'the story of moral poisoning'
- 'If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a good kissing carrion'
- 'sea of troubles'
- Elizabethan audiences would have understood the dangers of sea
- Armada in 1588
- Alludes to Emperor Caligula who waged war on the sea (futile)
- Hyperbole due to great expanse (causes Ophelia to drown)
- Elizabethan audiences would have understood the dangers of sea
- 'I am too much I'th'sun'
- As misled
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