HAMLET: ACT 1 SCENE 2

Balance and reason is how Claudius is initially characterised. 

Sharing property with husband e.g. thrown and Hamlet.

Metaphor: happy and sad occasion. Soliloquy shows natural speech.

“kindred”, not “kind” and not “kin”. 

  Hamlet in black for mourning of his father and blatant hatred for Claudius and Gertrudes marriage.

Questioning Hamlets masculinity as he is mourning his father

Considered suicide but strict religion labels it as a sin and so can’t do it. First soliloquy shows Hamlets passion and that he is the main character with the most lines.

Linked to 3.4. drunken lustful woodland Gods compared to God of light and heaven.

This shows how Hamlet doesn’t want anything to happen to his mother. He’s hyperbolic and exaggerates what may happen to her.

Misogynist towards his mother, calling women as a whole weak. Gertrude weak as she is married to Claudius. 

Trying to compare C to OH is like comparing self to Hercules which is inadequate as theres no close relation and doesn’t want C. Comparing OH to Hercules shows him in Hamlets eyes to be super.

 Shows Claudius’ and Gertrudes relationship in Hamlets eyes.

Ear motif 

The presentation of Old Hamlet shows him to be guarded, a deathly colour.