Hamlet: Interpretations

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Name this interpretation: Hamlet's growing madness, the bloody catharsis, the obsession with death
Gothic
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What does a feminist interpretation of Hamlet consist of?
1957 Heliburn: Gertrude marries to avoid a power vacuum
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Name this interpretation: Ophelia is driven to madness by the absence of men, she otherwise is "honest" and "fair"
Feminist
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In a heroic interpretation, what did the renaissance signify?
"rebirth of classical antiquity within a Christian culture"
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Name this interpretation: Hamlet is drawn towards both his father's heroism and a religious existence
Heroic
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In a psychoanalytic interpretation, what does Freud say?
Goethe was right with the "paralysis over intellectualisation" of Hamlet
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How can the 'Oedipus Complex' be applied to the play?
Ophelia's unrequited love for her father (Oliver, 1948)
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'Hamlet suppresses homosexual and a-sexual desires'
Psychoanalytic
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What does Gothor say about the play in a psychoanalytic interpretation?
Claudius is Hamlet's biological father
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