(Hamlet) Power
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- Created on: 28-05-19 10:38
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- Power
- Cycle
- 'sick at heart'/'That I might by the organ'
- Claudius presents the 'body' of the state (leads others to corruption)
- Time of uncertainty as Elizabeth was old and hadn't named her successor
- Opportunities for direct anatomical dissection were restricted during the Renaissance
- Shakespeare possibly disagreed with the monopoly on knowledge (totalitarian)
- 'ripe in my device' (means the same as 'rotten')
- Play of paradoxes
- Claudius presents the 'body' of the state (leads others to corruption)
- 'sick at heart'/'That I might by the organ'
- Religion
- 'bow, stubborn knees' (Act 3, Scene 3)
- 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
- Command 'bow' suggests he's incapable of genuinely good behavior
- 'shuffle off this mortal coil'
- 'coil' suggests Hamlet is trapped by morals while Claudius has none
- Refuses to kill Claudius in a sacred place
- Machiavellian- 'The Prince' in 1532 (one had to be 'ruthless' to be the best ruler)
- 'uniscovered country'
- Hamlet is wondering whether the afterlife is real
- 'coil' suggests Hamlet is trapped by morals while Claudius has none
- 'bow, stubborn knees' (Act 3, Scene 3)
- Surveillance
- 'like a mildewed ear' (Act 3, Scene 4)
- Simile refers to Claudius murdering Old Hamlet by pouring poison into his ear
- Fungus-like imagery (obscures/ infects reality)
- This exemplifies Claudius’ manipulation of language to persuade and distort the truth.
- 'draw', 'gather' + 'glean' (Act 2, Scene 2)
- Shakespeare worked in a legal office for a short time
- Represents Elizabethan surveillance state (predatory effect)
- Knight: 'enmeshed by the chain of casualty'
- 'like a mildewed ear' (Act 3, Scene 4)
- Women
- 'That sucked the honey of his music vows'
- 'the soul lends the tongue vows'
- 'lends' creates a temporary effect (Hamlet can afford to play around)
- Protestant belief that the Devil arrives in disguise
- 'Mermaid-like'
- Mermaids seen as sinister creatures who lured sailors to their deaths
- Christian belief in temptation. Ironic as women were seen as 'temptresses'
- Sensual words 'honey'/ 'music' creates an alluring effect
- 'the soul lends the tongue vows'
- 'That sucked the honey of his music vows'
- Cycle
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