Hamlet - main themes
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- Hamlet - Themes
- Action and inaction
- Hamlet is a thinker and an intellectual
- The difference between Hamlet and Laertes' efforts to get revenge for their fathers' murders
- Both action and inaction end in death
- The warrior compared with the thinker
- Families
- Polonius' different treatments of Ophelia and Laertes
- Families and inheritance
- Family as a motive for violence
- Relationships between fathers and sons
- Politics
- The state of Denmark is deteriorating
- Disruption caused by the death of King Hamlet
- The 'Body Politic' - link between the body of the king and the state
- Madness
- Hamlet 'acts' mad to trick people into thinking he's harmless
- It is assumed that Hamlet's madness stems from his love for Ophelia
- As the play goes on, it seems as though his madness is more serious
- Ophelia's madness, driven to it by grief and hurt
- Mortality
- The weight of mortality and the complexities of life
- The meaning of life
- After death - the significance of the ghost
- Is revenge an okay form of murder?
- The ease & benefits of suicide
- Corruption
- Claudius is a Machiavellianpolitican
- The while state of Denmark is corrupt
- The death of King Hamlet was described as a corruption of his body
- Revenge
- Hamlet getting revenge for his dad's murder
- Laertes trying to get revenge for his dad's murder and Ophelia's madness
- Women
- There are only two named women in the whole play
- He's at his most agitated while talking to them
- Hamlet cares for them, but he's also deeply suspicious of them
- He is repulsed by female sexuality
- Hamlet treats Ophelia badly
- Appearance and reality
- The players and meta-theatre
- Hamlet's faked madness compared to Ophelia's real madness
- The ghost?
- Action and inaction
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