(Hamlet) Religion
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- Created on: 28-05-19 09:33
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- Religion
- Claudius
- '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
- 'incestuous sheets'
- Sinister sibilance creates a perverse effect
- Also suggests a secretive affair-like relationship (underlying corruption)
- Leviticus (rules on incest could determine who was able to inherit property or even become king)
- Sinister sibilance creates a perverse effect
- 'bow, stubborn knees' (Act 3, Scene 3)
- Revenge
- 'To cut his throat i'th'church'
- Hamlet hesitated to kill Claudius in prayer
- Critics found Hamlet's thoughts bloody, yet Laertes' actions are worse
- Hyppolyte Taine: 'the story of moral poisoning'
- Machiavellian- 'The Prince' in 1532 (one had to be 'ruthless' to be the best ruler)
- Hamlet hesitated to kill Claudius in prayer
- 'To cut his throat i'th'church'
- Death
- '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
- 'weedy trophies'
- 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
- Ophelia's 'trophies' are corrupted by society and her means of survival destroyed
- '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
- Oxymoron suggests as a highborn lady she is partially exempt from a suicide's funeral
- 'There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow'
- Ghosts
- 'my father's spirit'
- Quick to accept it as his father (needs guidance)
- Pronoun takes responsibility of father's soul
- Catholic idea of purgatory (Hamlet also trapped by revenge)
- Earl of Southampton& father known as Catholic
- Swinburne: "the strong conflux of contending forces."
- Protestant audience would have been more wary (devil in disguise)
- Swinburne: "the strong conflux of contending forces."
- Quick to accept it as his father (needs guidance)
- 'my father's spirit'
- Claudius
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