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Hamlet

Clare Taylor English

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Hamlet Key Themes

Opposing pairs
Custom
Imprisonment
Surveillance
- Hearing
Humanity
- Passion and reason
Testing
Revenge
Madness
- Melancholy
Disease, Death, Corruption
- Moral corruption
- Mortality
- Mystery of death
- Nation as diseased body
- Suicide
- Religion
- Heaven, Hell and judgement
Justice
Betrayal
- Deception
Moral Responsibility
Appearance and reality
Politics and power
Women
- Incest and desire
- Misogyny
The ghost
Theatre
Thought and action
- Impossibility of certainty
- Complexity of action
- Identity
Honour and duty
Kingship
- Leadership