To what extent is Hamlet a tragedy Flashcards
(34 cards)
Why is ambiguity created aroud if the ending of the play is cathartic?
To raise questions on whether or not it can be considered a tragedy
Quote where Laertes is acting ignobly?
‘Cut his throat in th’church’
What quote restores Hamlet as hero and Laertes as noble?
‘Exchange forgiveness with me noble Hamlet’
Quote showing Hamlet begins the play by questioning whether or not to act?
‘Native hue of resolution is sicklied over by the pale cast of thought’ (3.1)
What quote contrasts with Hamlet’s previous questioning in 3.1?
‘Bear like a soldier’ Hamlet returns to hero and we feel pity for his death
What could suggest we feel a lack of pity in the ending?
His procrastination ‘his soul son do send to heaven’ has caused the deaths of others ‘from her fair and unpolluted flesh’
What context could be used with Hamlet restoring order to Denmark?
The Great Chain of Being
What critic can be used for a point on catharsis?
‘Hamlet is a tragedy without catharsis’ (Frye)
What critic can be used for Hamlet’s action in the ending of the play?
‘In the final act of Hamlet he accepts his world and we discover a different man’ (Mack)
Shakespeare presents Hamlet’s hamartia through his…
Renaissance mindset meaning he is ‘incapable of deliberate action’ (Hazlitt)
Quotes from 2.2 showing Hamlet’s hamartia
-‘rouge and peasant slave’
-‘Pigeon livered and lacks gall’
Quote from 3.1 showing Hamlet’s hamartia?
‘Native hue of resolution is sicklied over by the pale cast of thought’ (3.1)
Another quote from 3.1 showing Hamlet’s fear of death
‘Sole son do send to heaven’
Quote from 3.3 showing that Hamlet’s hamartia has led to his tragic downfall
‘his sole son do send to heaven’
What context can be used for Hamlet’s hamartia?
Renaissance vs medieval
What critic can be used for Hamlet’s hamartia?
‘Hamlet is a tragedy of thought’ (Bradley)
Shakespeare makes it ambiguous whether or not Hamlet is a tragic hero compared to typical Senecan hero’s, how?
Through his use of soliloquies and his treatment of women
Two quotes from Hamlet’s 2.2 soliloquy show he is not fulfilling the role of tragic hero
‘rouge and peasant slave’
‘unpregnant’
What quote shows Hamlet as mistreating women?
‘Get thee to a nunnery’
‘words like daggers’
Quotes from 5.2 showing Hamlet is a tragic hero
‘bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage’
‘exchange forgiveness with me noble Hamlet’
Quote where Hamlet forces Claudius to drink the poison
‘Here thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, drink of this potion’ (5.2)
How does Shakespeare subvert tragic conventions of revenge?
By having Gertrude’s narrative occupy Hamlet more so than avenging his father
3 quotes from 1.2 where Hamlet critiques Gertrudre and Cl’s marriage
-‘a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourn’d much longer’
-‘incesteous sheets’
-‘unrighteous tears’
What AO3 can be connected to Gertrude not observing a proper period of mourning?
Mary Queen of Scotts also failed to observe a proper mourning period and married the man who was thought to have killed her previous husband
