Behaviourist approach assumptions

Behaviourist approach assumptions

1. The prince of Denmark, the protagonist, title character

2. Son of old King Hamlet and Queen Gertrude and nephew to new king Claudius.

3. Hamlet is melancholy, bitter and cynical. He is full of hatred for his uncle’s scheming and disgust for his mother’s sexuality

4. Usually a reflective and thoughtful man who studied at the Univeristy of Wittenberg.

5. Hamlet is often indecisive and hesitant but also prone to rash and impulsive acts.

6. He is enigmatic. There is always more to him than the other characters in the play can figure out .

7. He is particularly drawn to difficult questions that cannot be answered with any certainty.

8. Hamlet spends relatively little time thinking about the threats to Denmark’s national security from without or the threats to it’s stability from within.