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Hamlet overview
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- 1HAMLET -OVERVIEW-The events in Hamlet are a direct response to crime which predates the action of the play. - REGICIDE OF OKH
- the magnitude of these crimes by Claudius against familial/social/hierarchical order is so great that a whole catalogue of sins and immorality follow in its wake.
-leads to the corruption of Elsinore/ destroying families/ poisoning Denmark itself and leaving it vulnerable to an invading Norwegian force - Fortinbras. - 2MURDER AND POISON-murders - crimes in whcih are central to the text - considerable magnitude
-the murder of OKH - which leads to the anonting of the now kind of Denmark -C
-this leads to the actions of H and the sebequent events of the
play
-START OF THE PLAY - audience is not yet aware that a murder has taken place - only that a king has died and a new one has been crowned.
-START OF THE PLAY- audiences made aware of disquet and unease within the outside of the court/Denmark / "battlements"- " a sentinel on guard"/ tension between guards - BKGRD revealed to us through HORATIO - "main motive for our preperations"
THIS IS TYPICAL OR CRIME WRITING - SIGNALS ALL IS NOT AS IT APPEARS
-GHOST OF OKH - has been sighted - unrest/wrongdoing,/devil?
-H is also sickned and anfy and the speed of his mothers remarriage so soon after his fathers death - "the funeral baked meats/ did coldy funish forth the marriage tables" - 3MURDER AND POISONA1S5 - GHOST appears - "i am thy fathers spirit" - SKP reveals that a murder has taken place - graphic detailsof crime revealed.
TYPICAL CRIME NARRATIVE - MURDERERS OFTEN REVEALED AT THE START - DETECTION FOLLOWS
-here the ghost descrimes his murder - the painful manner of his death and the premeditation of the criminal.
-what may seem to be even worse than this physical pain by an elizabethan audiece was - OKH was deprived of his last rites - "full of bread with all his crimes broad blown as a flush of may"
THE MURDER SCENE IS REENACTED WITHIN THE PLAY - PWAP - FOREGROUNDING ITS STRUCURAL AND SYMBOLIC SUGNIFICANCE
-CLAUDIUS CRIME = FRATRICIDE
a crime againts familial/religious/domestic order - murdered a king ordained by god - DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS
-is a capital crime against the state and social order - the deadly and destructive consequences of which are made manifets as the plot develops.
"something is rotten in the state of Denmark" - this is at the heart of the consequences - 4MURDER AND POINSON-CLAUDIUS HAS CLEAR MOTIVES FOR HIS CRIME - "my crown, mine ambition and my queen"
-done to secure his elevation in his status and power BUT the marriage reakes of sexual corruption -"incestuous sheets
INFRINGMENT OF GODS LAW -"thou shall not cover the nakedness of thy brothers wife".
TRANSGRESSION - incestious nature of this coupling is covered in H's earliest soliloquys"
CORRUPTION - not only present in sexual and domestic spheres - affects the body politic - RISD
CLAUDIUS NOT ONLY POISONED OKH BUT THE STATE OF DENMARK TOO - IRONIC - DIE BY POISON. - 5PERPETRATORS-the rotteness/corruption caused by the actions of CLAUDIUS can be perhaps seen in th murders that follow that of OKH -
-HAMLET X POLONIOUS - who he suspects is claudius
-HAMELT X RC/GS - as he claimed "they did make love to this employment"
-GERTURDE X POINSON -that claudus prepared from hamlet
HAMLET X lAETRES - after claudus set him up to kill hamlet - rapier
AT THE END - HAMLET avenges his father by stabbing C with the poison sword and forcing him to drink his own poison.
THIS THEREFORE ADMINISTERING JUSTICE BY CAUSING TREACHERY TO FALL AT THE HAND OF THE PERPETRATOR - 6GUILT-KEY ELEMENT OF CRIME WRITING - REMORSE OR LACK THEREOF
THE EXTENT TO WHICH CRIMINALS IN HAMLET EXPERIENCE GUILT IS DEBATABLE
CLAUDIUS - made to confront his crimes in the Mouse trap - and his attemt to atone for these sins is dramatieed in his confession - A3S3 - "my offence is rank// smells to heaven"/"hath the primal eldest curse upon't -a brothres murder" -however despite knowing all this he is not prepared to give up the spoils of his crime.
- it is also significant that as he prays he has already set in motion his plan against hamlet.
- there is also no act of contrition from CLAUDIUS - he tells GERTRUDE not to drink from the poisoned cup and simply says - "it is too late".
CONTRAST - LAERTES - despite being filled with anger and venom against H for the death of his sister and father - he feels remorse before he dies - "exchange forgiveness with me // mine and my fathers death come not upon thee// nor thin on me"
HAMLET- no contrition for POLONIUS / RC/GS/ sadness for OPHELIA but does not blame himself / any for C but troubled by his "wounded name " left behd - 7VICTIMSSO MANY
OK/ H /P/ G/ O
- while the criminals are clear cut - the victims are less so - since many of them are themselves are guilty of some deception or wrong doing.
- OKH - his crimes or indiscresions are unclear but we know that as a result of his murder he has been prevented from confessing them = in purgatory
HAMLET - victim/villain- fullfills many roles in reference to crime writing
- VICTIM - OKH demands of revenge his "foul and most unnatural murder"
-CLAUDIUS' coming between the election and his hopes of being king /plots against his life - the fencing match in
which he dies
- HAMLETS greatest suffering is the demand of his dead father's ghost- although he agrees to this he is a UNWILLING AVENGER - an innocent scholar/philosopher whos mind is tainted by the call to murder - while he looks for a reason not to carry out this deed - 8DETECTIVEHAMLET AS DETECTIVE
-before he can punish C he investigates the ghosts claim of murder.
-he shows SKILLS AND CUNNING - feigning madness in order to investigate the accusations against CLAUDIUS unseen
-THE MOUSETRAP- classic crime "set up" scenario - HAMLET contrives to expose C's guilt through the help of the PLAYERS -
"the plays the thing/wherin ill catch the conscience of the king"
- he recives this proof when C calls for -"some light"
TYPICAL OF CRIME FICTION - HAMLET wants to bring the criminal to account - this has often been criticised within the play about hamlets procrastination BUT - when looking at hamlet from a
CRIME PERSPECTIVE - it is deffinetly inkeeping with the genre - that the CONFRONTATION between the criminal and his persuer and the revelation that the persuer knows all - does not take place untill the end of the text - HAMLET publically denounces C in the final scene as an "incestuous, murderous, damned dane" - 9SUSPENSERUNS THROUGH THE NARRATIVE / KEY element of CRIME WRITING
-SKP dramatises the stand-off between the criminal and his pursuer / the cunning stratgies used by both in their evasion or persuit
MUCH PLOTTING AND COUNTER PLOTTING
-CLAUDUIS - uses O/RC/GS to uncover hamlets plot - these are matched by hamlets pretence of madness and the sentencing of his friends deaths.
HAMLET - in speeches and scenes seems determined to kill C swiftly / BUT SKP maitains this suspense by having HAMLET internally question his thirst to acvenge his father - "O what rouge and pesant slave am i"
OR
-have him somewhat stagnant in a state alost inaction -"i do not know// why yet i live to say this things to do..."
- only at the end of the play where he as been poisoned is when he springs into action and kills the king.
SUSPENSE AND INTRUIGUE - important elements in the narrative structuing of crime writing
aHAVING SUCEEDED AS DETECTIVE HAMLET TAKES IT UPON HIM SLEF TO EXACT REVENGE AND RETIRIBUITON - however in doing so becomes not on the had of justcie but the PARRALLEL of sorts to CLAUDIUS. - 10PURSUITHAMLET - often noted for his self reflection - SKP foregrounds this through the characters use of SOLILOQUIES
-HAMLET is obsessed by the crime that has been committed and discusses ways to investigate and carry out his revenge
-this has much likness to the commentary of a DETECTIVE that is often featured in crime writing - their thought processes and deductive reasoning are shared with the reader -SHERLOCK/POIROT
-through this device HAMLET tells his audience his plans to catch the kings conscience / reasons for not killing him / his purpose in putting on his madness / his determination to finally avenge his father
HOARTION AS A SORT OF SIDE KICK - 11VENGEANCECLEAR THREAD OF REVENGE AND RETRIBUTION INFORMING THE NARRATIVE OF THE PLAY - this unfolds from the moment the GHOST commands HAMLET to "revenge his foul and most unnatural murder"
THE PLAY IS A REVENGE TRAGEDY
HAMLET faces a SPIRITUAL DILEMMA - a conflict between exacting personal revenge for the crime committed or allowing heavenly retribution and judgment to take its course.
- this is presented in hamlets sololoquies.
-yet in spite of this debate, the narrative moves steadily forward towards the climactic confrontation between murder and avenger
CLAUDIUS KNOWS HE IS BEING TRACKED DOWN AND TRIES HARD TO THROW OFF HIS PURSUER BUT THIS DOENST HAPPEN. - 12RESOLUTIONCONCLUSION - the guilty criminal lies dead murdered by the avenger and punished for his various crimes
HOWEVER
HAMLET - has also been killed along with many others
-although order is restored to Denmark -FB
HORATIOS words suggest that this is a very dark crime story -
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