(Hamlet) Madness
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- Created on: 27-05-19 11:22
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- Madness
- Women
- 'Enter Ophelia distracted'/ 'distracted multitude'
- 'sick at heart' corruption spreads and infects others
- Period of uncertainty as Elizabeth had not named a successor
- 'Hysteria' originates from the latin 'Hyster', which means 'womb'
- By giving away her flowers, she is symbolically 'deflowered'
- Elaine Showalter argues that Ophelia is 'a female counterpart to Hamlet'
- 'sick at heart' corruption spreads and infects others
- 'a breeder of sinners'
- Hamlet believes all women have the potential for sin
- Biological Determinism
- 'unweeded garden'
- Bible teaches that women are subordinate and to blame for the fall of man
- References the Garden of Eden (but overgrown)
- Bible teaches that women are subordinate and to blame for the fall of man
- Hamlet believes all women have the potential for sin
- 'Enter Ophelia distracted'/ 'distracted multitude'
- Lack of morals
- 'ungartered...his knees knocking'
- 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
- 'may be the devil, and the devil hath power'
- Madness was sometimes perceived as possession by the devil
- 'may be the devil, and the devil hath power'
- Influenced by Thomas Kyd's 'Spanish Tragedy' (both act as if mad)
- 'm' alliteration suggests the two have become muddled
- 'mermaid-like'
- Mermaids seen as sinister creatures who lured sailors to their deaths
- 'weedy trophies'
- Suicide was seen as a sin as your life was not your own, but belonged to God
- Oxymoron suggests as a highborn lady she is partially exempt from a suicide's funeral
- Hyppolyte Taine: 'the story of moral poisoning'
- Oxymoron suggests as a highborn lady she is partially exempt from a suicide's funeral
- Suggests her virginity is her only virtue, as flowers symbolise fertility
- Ophelia's 'trophies' are corrupted by society and her means of survival destroyed
- Suicide was seen as a sin as your life was not your own, but belonged to God
- Madness associated with a lack of morals
- 'ungartered...his knees knocking'
- Malcontent
- Hyperbole: 'fall ten times treble on that cursed head'
- Presents a reflection of Hamlet (play acts as a mirror for Hamlet)
- Identifies as Malcontent (like Hamlet) - cycle of grief & revenge
- O'Toole: 'Death is the picture, not he frame'
- 'forty thousand could not...make up my sum'
- 'eat a crocodile?'
- Melodrama highlights Hamlet's inability to act (all in his mind)
- Hamlet has been paralysed by the responsibility of revenge (driven mad)
- Coleridge: 'a man incapable of acting because he thinks too much'
- Melodrama highlights Hamlet's inability to act (all in his mind)
- 'eat a crocodile?'
- Hyperbole: 'fall ten times treble on that cursed head'
- Women
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