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Hamlet Theories
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- 1KastanBelieves that tragedy is unrewarded suffering with their 'desolating controlling logic'
- 2A. C. BradleyThe tragic hero must come from nobility with an outcome that isn't expected and causes sympathy.
- 3MackMadness is either punishment or doom; 'they are caught between the absolute and expedient'
- 4KerriganThe death of his father makes Hamlet feel lost with a duty to commemorate; ‘The sexuality which the prince denounces is that of his mother as well as Ophelia’.
- 5AdelmanHamlet seeks to remake Gertrude ‘in the image of the Virgin Mother’ and appears more motivated by his mother than father. However, Hamlet cannot expect to manage his mother’s moral reclamation instantly after killing Claudius.
- 6HazlittHamlet is the prince of reasonable thinkers ‘beacuse he cannot have his revenge perfect’. ‘Yet he is sensible of his own weakness..and tries to reason himself out of it’
- 7Elain ShowalterArgues that Ophelia’s madness makes her a ‘potent and obsessive figure in our cultural mythology’. She suggests that where men may go mad for a number of reasons like mental and spiritual stress, women’s madness is associated with their bodies and erotic desires.
- 8Majorie Garber‘In Hamlet...Shakespeare instates the uncanny as sharply as he does the Oedipus complex’. His relationship with his father is just as important as the Queen.
- 9Catherine BelseyArgues that Hamlet doesn’t want revenge because it would lead to damnation. ‘Whether it is nobler to accept a wrong without protest, when fighting it may bring not only death, but also damnation?’.
- 10Max Bleur‘Revenge is the driving force behind the play and is the reason for the massacre that brings Hamlet to its conclusion’.
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- GCSE English Literature Flashcards on Hamlet Theories, created by Kyle Campbell on 03/03/2019.
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