Hamlet

Hamlet

1. Character Questions

   • hamlet has many character interpretations
   • Is Hamlet a crazed lunatic?
   • is hamlet a depressed scholar?
   • is hamlet a misunderstood hero?
   • is Gertrude a conniving adulteress?
   • is Gertrude a concerned mother?
   • is Ophelia an honest maid?
   • Is Ophelia an air headed flirt?

2. justice and revange

   • where a character feels compelled to do an action to achieve justice
     • sometimes it is revenage or sometimes it is to seek order or closure
   • Hamlet
   • Fortinbras
   • Laertes
   • Claudius

3. The purpose of life and death

   • each character has a purpouse
   • hamlet is given a new duty by his father
     • he puzzles over the meaning of life in general
     • later in the play he puzzles over the universal nature of death

4. Madness VS Sanity

   • the play contains characters who act mad,go mad and do actions in between
   • what does madness signify for the characters and plot?
   • Hamlet
   • Ophelia

5. Rights and Duties of Kingship

   • a murdered king
   • a prince passed overfor the throne
   • a unsurper for the throne
   • characters being considered for kingship despite their bloodline or country or origin
   • monarch
   • Hamlet
   • Claudius
   • King Hmalet
   • Laertes
   • Fortinbras

6. Apperance VS Reality

   • spying
   • lies
   • actors putting on play
   • Polonius
   • Claudius
   • Hamlet
   • Feigning madness