Phase 1 themes

• Revenge: Bacon?

  17th 'Revenge is a wild kind of justice'
• Revenge: Belsey?

  20th Marxist 'revenge is not justice'
• Revenge: Hazlitt?

  19th 'because he cannot have his revenge perfect... he declines it all together'
• Revenge: G.W.knight?

  20th 'laertes becomes a revolutionary, a disorder force, against Claudius, the king, the symbol of order'
• Family/children/parents: Das Pargoti?

  21st 'Hamlet develops a deep seeded hatred for women seen his mothers hasty marriage'
• Family/children/parents: Rose?

  21st 'Hamlet's despondency seems to centre more on his mother's remarriage that is does on his father's death'
• Family/children/parents: Beltramini?

  21st 'the dysfunctional families are essentially the cause of Hamlet's tragic nature'
• Power: Richard D. Attlick?

  'Claudius's evil has corrupted the whole kingdom of Denmark'
• Power: Mumford Jones?

  19th 'Claudius is that of a stately and commanding figure'
• Power: G.W.Knight?

  20th 'claudius can hardly be blamed for his later actions they are forced on him... Hamlet is a danger to the state'
• Love: Bradley?

  'Hamlet's love was not only mingled with bitterness, it was also weakened and deadened by his melancholy'
• Love: Miller?

  'for Gertrude, passionate love is a binding, reckless emotion that head her to do foolish things'
• Love: Dawson?

  'he loved Gertrude deeply and genuinely'
• Memory: Andrews?

  20th 'memory makes the past live'
• Memory: Mabillard?

  21st 'Horatio is the harbringer of truth'
• Death: Jones?

  20th 'in reality he cannot kill him without also killing himself'
• Fate/Supernatural/Religon: Johnson?

  18th 'chills the blood with horror'
• Fate/Supernatural/Religon: Goddard?

  20th 'a symbol of the devil'
• Fate/Supernatural/Religon: Gothe?

  'all duties seem holy to Hamlet'
• Fate/Supernatural/Religon: Bradley?

  'Hamlet is unable to carry out the sacred duty, imposed by divine authority, of punishing an evil man by death'
• Fear and Guilt: Gothe?

  18th 'a poetic and morally sensitive soul crushed by the barbarous task of murder'