CRITIC EXAMPLES

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TERRY EAGLETON

"Ophelia is used as a pawn by Claudius and her father"

Ophelia was warned by her father

-> "A denial of speech in this society, is a denial of self giving"

SYDNEY BOLT

Nunery scene

-> Hamlet is not attacking Ophelia, he is attacking mankind.

-> 'The malcontent regards the female as an enemy because she ensures the continuation of the species'

'Ophelia show no reluctance to being used as a decoy. Her obedience makes her passive, nit virtuous.'

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THE MORALITY OF HAMLET - 'SWEET PRINCE' OR 'ARRANT KNAVE'?

BY PATRICK CRUTTWELL

'Hamlet has been made the myth-character of the doubting, self-contemplating Intellectual"

'The puzzled self-contemplator' - describing Hamlet

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AMANDA MABILLARD - AN INTRODUCTION TO GERTRUDE

'The antithesis if her son'

'Gertrude is shallow and only thinks about her body and external pleasures'

'Like a child she longs to be delighted'

'It is her sexuality that turns Hamlet so violently against her' helped by the q