hamlet ao5

Question 1

Revenge is a wild kind of justice

Answer 1

Francis Bacon 1625

Question 2

lewd and unreasonable

Answer 2

Jeremy Collier 1698

Question 3

Hamlet is … unworthy of a hero

Answer 3

Thomas Hammer 1736

Question 4

he (hamlet) treats Ophelia with so much rudeness, which seems useless and wanton cruelty

Answer 4

Samuel Johnson 1765

Question 5

Hamlet is … rather an instrument than an agent

Answer 5

Samuel Johnson 1765

Question 6

Hamlet is no better than the sinner whom he is to punish

Answer 6

Sigmund Freud 1900

Question 7

Melancholia is the root of Hamlet’s problems

Answer 7

A.C Bradley 1904

Question 8

Hamlet’s genius might even be his doom

Answer 8

A.C Bradley 1904

Question 9

Nothing stands between Hamlet and suicide except religious awe

Answer 9

A.C Bradley 1904

Question 10

Hamlet may even seem a monster of inconsistency

Answer 10

John Dover Wilson 1935

Question 11

Ophelia has no chance to develop an independent conscience of her own, so stifled by the authority of the male world

Answer 11

Juliet Dusinberre 1975

Question 12

We can imagine Hamlet’s story without Ophelia, but Ophelia literally has no story without Hamlet

Answer 12

Lee Edwards 1979

Question 13

Gertrude is a nurturing maternal presence rather than a shallow sensualist

Answer 13

Rebecca Smith 1980

Question 14

The identity of the ghost is secondary to its effect upon Hamlet

Answer 14

Walter King 1982

Question 15

The ghosts dominates even in his absence

Answer 15

Terence Hawkes 1986

Question 16

Claudius is no simple villain but a complex and compelling figure

Answer 16

Terence Hawkes 1986

Question 17

Male power is restored through the vilification of women

Answer 17

Valerie Traub 1988

Question 18

Gertrude’s adultery turns all women into prostitutes

Answer 18

Valerie Traub 1988

Question 19

Women make men into monsters

Answer 19

Valerie Traub 1988

Question 20

Hamlet describes sexuality with metaphors of contagion and disease

Answer 20

Valerie Traub 1988

Question 21

Ophelia’s dead virginal body is fetishised by Hamlet and Laertes

Answer 21

Valerie Traub 1988

Question 22

Ophelia’s death is an outcome of hamlet’s rage as it is an expression of her grief, madness or self-destruction

Answer 22

Valerie Traub 1988

Question 23

Hamlet is intensely aware of himself as an actor

Answer 23

Graham Holderness 1989

Question 24

Hamlet… idealises the medieval world of his father, but the Denmark of the play is no longer ruled by these values

Answer 24

Graham Holderness 1989

Question 25

The weapons finally used to kill Claudius mark the attack as spontaneous rather than a long-nurtured vengeance

Answer 25

John Kerrigan 1996

Question 26

The ghost initiates a nightmare

Answer 26

Stephen Greenblatt 2002

Question 27

The Ophelia figure was a kind of feminine ideal: totally passive, sexualised and utterly defined by her romantic relationships

Answer 27

Allan Ingram 2005

Question 28

Ophelia and Gertrude can superficially be seen as the representatives of the two archetypes of women in early modern drama: virgin and whore

Answer 28

Sean McEvoy 2006

Question 29

he cannot kill Claudius because he identifies with him, for Claudius has done the very things he would wish to do himself: kill Old Hamlet and have sex with Hamlet's mother

Answer 29

Sean McEvoy 2006

Question 30

Polonius is nothing more than a stock character, frequently wrong in his judgements, providing a source of comic relief

Answer 30

Richard Hardy 2017

Question 31

(painting) Hamlet and his Father's Ghost (Henry Fuseli, 1775)

Answer 31

ghost is in metal armour, standing in the light whereas Hamlet is being held back in the dark looking at the ghost

Question 32

Hamlet and his Father's Ghost (William Blakes 1806)

Answer 32

The ghost is angrily looking down, dressed in metal armour. Hamlet is on his knees looking up

Question 33

Ophelia (Daniel Maclise 1842)

Answer 33

Muddy water, half naked, holding on to the tree

Question 34

Ophelia (John Everett Millias, 1851)

Answer 34

Fully dressed, beautiful and green scenery, arms are open, lies in water

Question 35

Horatio is generally emotionless and rationalises the pain and suffering he witnesses as a tragedy.

Answer 35

Jeffery R. Wilson

Question 36

Horatio feels deeply; he loves hamlet with all his heart

Answer 36

Amanda Mallibard