English Quotes
Cards (18)
- Kerrigan - GHOSTHAMLETMEMORY AND REMEMBRANCEREVENGE"Hamlet never promises to revenge, only to remember."
- Belsey - HAMLETREVENGECLAUDIUSGOOD VS EVIL"Hamlet is the victim not simply of temptation to evil but of a moral dilemma,"
- Mushat Frye - RENAISSANCEHAMLETFORTINBRASACTION AND INACTION'the idea of the nobleman in Shakespeare's culture was a man of action who was also a man of thought
- Janet Adelman - HAMLETGERTRUDEFAMILYREVENGEFEMININITY AND MASCULINITY'the main psychological task for Hamlet.. is not to avenge his father's death but to remake his mother in the image of the Virgin Mother."
- G. Wilson Knight - HAMLETDISEASEGOOD VS EVILAPPEARANCE VS REALITY'Hamlet is... a poison in the midst of the healthy bustle of the court
- Myron Taylor - HAMLETLAERTESDEATHGRIEFCLOTHINGAPPEARANCE VS REALITY"Hamlet's grief is real, and not a matter of clothing and appearances; Laetes' grief is all show and no substance."
- Vin Hanley - CLAUDIUSClaudius can smile and smile and yet be a villain
- Vin Hanley - POLONIUSPolonius can appear a tedious, garrulous old fool and still be a scheming, dangerous instigator of mischief
- Vin Hanley - Rosencrantz and GuildensternRosencrantz and Guildenstern can hide treacherous intent under the mask of friendship
- Vin Hanley - HamletHamlet's 'antic disposition' is, he assures his friends, merely an appearance, a convenience;
- Ernest Jones - HAMLETGERTRUDECLAUDIUSREVENGESEXUALFEMININITY AND MASCULINITY"Hamlet's long 'repressed' desire to take his father's place in his mother's affection is stimulated to unconscious activity by the sight of Claudius usurping this place exactly as he himself had once longed to do."
- Camile Paglia - CLAUDIUSKINGSHIPSTATECRAFTREVENGE"The people are the body politic: unsettled, manipulated, paranoid, they are reduced to a giant collective 'ear' poisoned by lies - miming the king's secret murder."
- CT Neely - MASCULINITYFEMININITYGERTRUDE"Shakespeare's tragedies explore deep patriarchal anxieties about female power, about their potential threat and the consequent male effemination."
- Tassi - GERTRUDEWOMENPATRIARCHOPHELIA"In fulfilling her tragic role, the end crowns all; in the final moments of her life, she performs an extraordinary act which gives Hamlet motive and cue for killing the King."
- Myron Taylor - POLONIUSAPPEARANCE VS REALITYSPYINGDEATH"Polonius dies at that moment when his being is most clearly revealed; when his existence and his essence are at one, when appearance and reality are identical."
- Katy Limmer - FRIENDSHIPBETRAYAL AND LOYALTYHORATIOHAMLETRENAISSANCEROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERNSPYINGShakespeare made the false friends two characters on purpose, in order for them to represent the wider, but necessarily weaker ties of political friendship."
- Francis Schoff - HORATIOROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERNHAMLETFRIENDSHIP"Shakespeare created in Horatio an individualised character of sufficient stature to warrant considered analysis and a qualitative comparison of him with the play's protagonist."
- Mark Matheson - GHOSTHAMLETREVENGECLAUDIUSRELIGIONthe Ghost is that it comes not to beg relief for its own pains but to command Hamlet to revenge the death of King Hamlet and to restore order in the temporal political world.