Hamlet Ao5/Ao2 Flashcards
(16 cards)
Hawkes modern
The ghost is dominant even in its absence
Sigmund Freud modern
Hamlet is no better than the sinner who he is to punish
Edwards modern
We can imagine how much story without Ophelia, but Ophelia literally has no story without Hamlet
McAvoy 2006
The virgin and the whore archetypes
trey modern
Hamlet describes sexuality with metaphors of contagion and disease
Johnson early
Hamlet is rather an instrument than an agent
King 1982
The identity of the ghost is secondary to its effect upon Hamlet
Buchan
People will be in the right if they saw vengeance on an arrogant and worthless tyrant
overly sexualised relationship between Hamlet and his mother
Mel Gibson adaptation, Andrew Scott adaptation
distinct parallels between the dark corporate world, regional business executives and Denmark rotten core
The bad sleep well 1960
abuse of human rights and political reality
Haider 2014
Focus on surveillance and secrecy
David Tennant adaptation
Paintings depicting hamlet and his father’s ghost
Fuseli and William Blake
The play with a play Claudio looks away guilt, Ophelia stands out
Maclise
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
•they are never found guilty of the kind of betrayal Hamlet imagines.
•whether they are willing to compasses to Claudius’s later plan to have Hamlet killed-Gielgud
• we are actors were the opposite of people
Horatio
• without her ratio, we are distance from the bewildering hamlet-Bloom
• Horatio is one who in suffering all suffers nothing
