(Hamlet) Revenge/Justice
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- Created on: 27-05-19 12:03
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- Revenge/ Justice
- Cycle
- Hyperbole: 'fall ten times treble on that cursed head'
- Presents a reflection of Hamlet (play acts as a mirror for Hamlet)
- O'Toole: 'Death is the picture, not he frame'
- Identifies as Malcontent (like Hamlet) - cycle of grief & revenge
- Presents a reflection of Hamlet (play acts as a mirror for Hamlet)
- 'sick at heart'/'that I might be the organ'
- Claudius presents the 'body' of the state (leads others to corruption/ revenge)
- Though blood revenge no longer had any legal place in society, many sympathised with it still
- Opportunities for direct anatomical dissection were restricted
- Personification of state structure (discovery of anatomy e.g. Vesalius)
- Claudius presents the 'body' of the state (leads others to corruption/ revenge)
- Hyperbole: 'fall ten times treble on that cursed head'
- Morals
- 'To cut his throat i'th'church'
- Machiavellian- 'The Prince' in 1532 (one had to be 'ruthless' to be the best ruler)
- 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'
- Critics found Hamlet's thoughts bloody, yet Laertes' actions are worse
- 'Revenge should have no bounds'
- Claudius represents the hypocrisy of faith (lack of genuine devotion)
- Shakespeare criticises the catholic use of indulgences
- Claudius represents the hypocrisy of faith (lack of genuine devotion)
- 'when we have shuffled off this mortal coil'
- sibilance of 'shuffled' creates a reluctant effect
- Revenge tragedy often ends with the hero's death
- 'coil' creates an image of entrapment
- Suicidal thoughts (a sin in Elizabethan times)
- Confuses 'to die, to sleep - '
- Hamlet is unable to take action due to his over-contemplation of death
- Shakespeare challenges Kyd's Spanish Tragedy (inability to act)
- Confuses 'to die, to sleep - '
- sibilance of 'shuffled' creates a reluctant effect
- 'To cut his throat i'th'church'
- Duty
- 'my father's spirit'
- Quick to accept it as his father (needs guidance)
- Pronoun takes responsibility of father's soul
- Protestant audience would have been more wary (devil in disguise)
- Pronoun takes responsibility of father's soul
- Catholic idea of purgatory (Hamlet also trapped by revenge)
- Hamlet's struggle reflects religious division (reformation & restoration)
- Swinburne: "the strong conflux of contending forces."
- Quick to accept it as his father (needs guidance)
- 'my father's spirit'
- Cycle
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