critics quotes Flashcards
(13 cards)
TS eliot in his essay “hamlet and his problems”
- does not agree with a lot of interpretrations
- dismissed hamlet as an “artistic failure” and says the great orince remains trapped btwn speculation and action without “objective correlative”
romantic poets and writers about action vs inaction
gothe describes hamlet as “amazement and sorrow overwhelm the solitary young man”
- suggest inaction is due to intellectual paralysis
sigmund freud - psyhchoanalytical critic
direct quote
“hamlet is able to do anything - exvept take vengeance on the man whk away with hks father and took hjs fathers place with his mother”
sigmund frued oedipus complex
hamlet identifies with claudius, who dod the very thing hamlet wants to do subconscjously
“all boys ars unconsciously desire their mother and feel rivalry towards rheir fsther”
frued on action vs inaction quote
“hamlet represents the type of man whose power of direct action is paralysed by an excessive development of his intellect”
Elaine Showalter (focused on ophelia about costume contrast
highlight how Ophelia was historically costumed in virginal white wild Hamlet were black
elaine showwalter quote on ophelia
used to “reflect and to chaallenge evolvimg ideas aboit female psychology and sexuality”
elaine showalter on opjelias madness
“protest and rebellion” afainst the men arnd her
jacqueline rose on gertrude
play’s only “scapegoat”
sonia massai, prof of shakespeare studies at kings college describing hamlet as a play
“one of the msot fiercely misogynistic plays”
sonia massai about gertrude
“target of this hatred”
- incest abguity in bible as leviticus forbids it but another done so whats hamlet rly mad ab
HDF KITTO quote on denmark
“the general enemy is the rottenness that pervades Denmark”
