Critics

Question 1

Religion - Von Goethe

Answer 1

“All duties seem holy for Hamlet”

Question 2

Swinburne - procrastination

Answer 2

“Hamlets innermost nature is no means irresolution or hesitation, but rather a strong conflict of contending forces”

Question 3

Bradley- religion

Answer 3

“Hamlet is unable to carry out the sacred duty, imposed by divine authority,of punishing an evil man by death”

Question 4

Samuel Johnson - procrastination/ Hamlets character

Answer 4

“Hamlet is rather an instrument than an agent ”

Question 5

Coleridge- Hamlet’s character/procrastination

Answer 5

“Hamlet is obliged to act on the spur of the moment”

Question 6

Alexander- morals

Answer 6

“The play does not-offer any conclusions about what is the right response to the questions it poses about human aggression”

Question 7

Belsen- justice

Answer 7

“Revenge is always in excess of justice”

Question 8

C.S Lewis humanity

Answer 8

‘Hamlet depicts lasting mystery of our human condition’

Question 9

AC Bradley madness

Answer 9

‘Melancholia, tragedy of thought’

Question 10

Schlegel and Coleridge overthinking

Answer 10

‘Excessive reflectiveness’

Question 11

Leonard tennonhouse

Answer 11

‘Hamlet attempts to locate and purge a corrupt element within the aristocratic body’

Question 12

Cumberbatch

Answer 12

To be or not to be soliloquy - ‘conversation between different synapses of the brain’

Question 13

Freud and OH

Answer 13

OH is super ego

Question 14

Freud and Claudius

Answer 14

Claudius is hamlets ID

Question 15

Wittgenstein

Answer 15

The importance of understanding philosophical language

Question 16

Swinburne

Answer 16

Hamlet expirience a conflict in strong contending forces

Question 17

Patrick Stewart

Answer 17

Claudius is a man of action

Question 18

Wilson knight

Answer 18

Claudius is a good and gentle king

Question 19

Altice

Answer 19

The evil of hamlet has corrupted the whole kingdom

Question 20

Hudson

Answer 20

Horacio is a noble character but moves so gently through the play

Question 21

Gervinus

Answer 21

Horatio suffered everything and nothing

Question 22

R N Watson

Answer 22

The Christian renaissance notion that vengeance should be left to God was often spoken of and even more often ply ignored

Question 23

Adelman

Answer 23

Hamlets goal is not to avenge his father but to re make his mother

Question 24

Earnest Jones

Answer 24

Hamlet cannot kill Claudius because he sees too much of him in himself, for he has fulfilled his Oedipal desires

Question 25

Bevington

Answer 25

Hamlets indecision humanises him

Question 26

Mary Daly

Answer 26

Phallic mentality

Rapeism

Question 27

Beauvoir

Answer 27

Women have allowed themselves to become the second sex

Question 28

Sartre

Answer 28

The is no God

Question 29

Nietzsche

Answer 29

There is no objective order or structure to the world

Question 30

Ayer

Answer 30

Ethical contemplation is merely a matter of emotional outpouring

Question 31

John macrae 7!!

Answer 31

Seven soliloquy’s, build up to hamlet becoming king. Renaissance scholars used numbers to add logic and order to chaos.

Question 32

John Macrae hamlet as king

Answer 32

Fortinbras ‘most holy’

Question 33

John Lennard (talkative ghost)

Answer 33

He has 80+ lines, ghost in Macbeth has no lines,

Question 34

John Lennard (armour)

Answer 34

The ghost wears armour, which is not typical of a ghost, could be noisy on stage, not what his was wearing when he died in the orchard

Question 35

John Lennard (ghost a wimp)

Answer 35

Never confronts his murderer (as seen in Macbeth and Julius Caesar)

Question 36

Voltaire

Answer 36

Macabre humour was a breach of decorum ….. an unforgivable transgression of the aesthetic code … of comedy and tragedy

Question 37

John Lennard compound

Answer 37

Compound of tragedy and comedy created a new feeling which led the audience feeling hollow