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Leo Mellor English 18 cards

Cards in this deck (18)

1"Many different explanations for Hamlet's procrastination"Muir
2"There are more Hamlets than actors to play them"Bloom
3"Hamlet's not an individual but everyman"C.S Lewis
4"The lecherousness of Claudius' evil has corrupted the whole kingdom of Denmark"Altick
5"Gertrude is negative and insignificant"T.S Elliot
6"Gertrude has not moved towards independence or a heightened moral stance, only her divided loyalties intensify"Smith
7"Ophelia suffers from a series of patriarchal oppressions"Hamana
8"Ophelia's only concern is pleasing others"Smith
9"Ophelia is a powerful figure who rebels against the social disorder"Elaine Showalter
10"Hamlet is presented as fashionably melancholy"Sienfeld
11"Hamlet is rather an instrument than an agent"Samuel Johnson
12"Doubt and dispaire" causes melancholyBright
13"Woman is an excellent ornament of man"Lapied
14"Hamlet's downfall is due to his intellectual nature"A.C Bradley
15"Hamlet can't kill Claudius without killing himself"E. Jones
16Madness is caused by "Trauma and shock"Burton
17Houses seem like "Prisons" ("Denmark's a prison")Bright
18"Hamlet is a Protestant man, haunted by a Catholic ghost"Greenblatt