Corruption and Deceit

Corruption and Deceit

1. Murder

   • Polonius
     • "Thou findest too busy is some danger"
   • Ophelia
     • "Drowed! O where?"
       • Sourced from her madness
         • "Thought and afflictions, passion, hell itself / She turns to favour and to prettiness
           • Relates to Gender Roles, shows the woman as weak - fallen into madness so quickly
   • The King
     • Claudius admits his murder
       • "o, my offence is rank ... A brother's murder"

2. Family

   • Gender roles in family's
     • No mother figure for Ophelia and Laertes
   • Isolation
     • Ophelia becomes lonely and isolated because Hamlet has left her and her father has died
     • Hamlet becomes mad or starts to because he has become isolated by his motive of killing Claudius

3. Realationships

   • • Hamlet
       • "Get thee to a nunnery" thier realtionship has to be sacrifced for Hamlets motive
     • Polonius
       • She goes mad when her father dies
         • "He is dead and gone, lady. / He is dead and gone"
           • Relates to Gender Roles as she looses all mental stability now her father isn there to "support" her
     • Laertes
   • Hamlet
     • Claudius
       • Tries to send him to England, sees him as a threat
         • Then later turns Laertes against him
         • "everything is bent, For England"
     • Gertrude
       • "Here is your husband; like a mildewed ear"
         • Doesn't approve of the incestuous marriage
     • Claudius and Polonius
   • Gertrude and Claudius
     • never see in a loving way, more just like partners

4. Illusion vs Reality

   • Claudius provoking laetres about the death of his father
     • "O thou vile king" Laetres is angry becasue he believes Cladius has killed Polonius
       • Claudius manipulates his anger towards Hamlet, "Laertes was your father dear to you?"
         • "What would you undertake to show yourself in deed your fathers son / Moretha in words?" "To cut his throat in the church"
   • Polonius spying on Gertrude and Hamlet
     • Both end in downfall, Polonius' death and Ophelia's madness.
       • "Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!" First time Hamlet his acted upon his thoughts and words - is he going crazy?
   • Hamlets antic disposition
     • Is questioned with his "To be or not to be " solioquay we see the struggle he has had to endure
     • Questioned further when only he sees the ghost
       • "nothing at all. Yet all is that I see"
   • Polonius and Claudius spying on Hamlet and Ophelia
     • upsets Ophelia
       • "And I, of ladiesmost deject and wretched"