PRESENTATION OF HAMLET AND CRITICAL VIEWPOINTS

Question 1

How is Hamlet represented?

Answer 1

1. Subversion of the revenge hero archetype/ the great ditherer
2. Philosophical thinker, existential hero
3. Moral perfectionism and paralysis
4. Performer and manipulator
   5.Cruel and misoginistic

Question 2

Subversion of the revenge hero

Answer 2

‘(Aside) A little more kin and less than kind’

’ am I then revenged, To take him in the purging of his soul’

“O that this too sullied flesh would melt and resolve itself into a dew”

The time is out of joint. O cursed spite, / That ever I was born to set it right!”

Question 3

A philosphical thinker and existential hero

Answer 3

To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles.

What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason… and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

Question 4

Performer and manipulator

Answer 4

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly. In know a hawk from a handsaw.

“The play’s the thing / Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.”

“I’ll put an antic disposition on.”

Question 5

Cruel and misogynistic

Answer 5

O most pernicious women! O villain, villain, smiling villain

‘Tis brief, my lord; ‘As a women’s love’