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Hamlet (Deception (Hamlet Faking madness (ties in to corruption) (Hamlet…

- - - - 'To visit you my lord, no other intention'
  - - - Caused his death
- - - - Father death
        
        Motivation for killing Claudius is good and Nobel
        
        'his foul and most unnatural murder”
        
        Restoring great chain of being
        
        Bloom suggests that Hamlet could potentially be a ‘hero-villain’. This can be argued because of his negative traits about him, such as his intention to murder the King and his poor treatment towards Ophelia. However, I disagree to a certain degree with Bloom’s critic that “Hamlet is the hero-villain”. Although Hamlet intends to kill a king (his uncle), his motivation is good and wants to bring “justice” to his father's death, I would argue that a villain has to have ill-intentions. Therefore, Hamlet is not a villain in this scenario.
      - Treatment of Ophelia
        
        Samuel Johnson argues that Hamlet takes “delight in cruelty”, and evidence of this can be seen in Hamlets behaviour towards Ophelia. Hamlet tells Ophelia “I did love you once” but then contradicts himself by saying “I loved you not”. This contrast leads to confusion because Ophelia isn’t sure what to believe.
        
        Hamlet could also be mistreating Ophelia for the sake of proving his madness. However, it could be argued that Hamlet had good intentions in mistreating Ophelia. Ophelia’s entire story relies solely on the men in her life and a critic even suggests “We can imagine Hamlet’s story without Ophelia, but Ophelia literally has no story without Hamlet”.
      - Ending
        
        Takes action and acts kingly
        
        kingly- 'The point envenomed too! Then, venom to thy work'
        
        Kingly and action quote
        
        Kills Claudius
        
        Perhaps only to defend his mother
        
        Adelman critic
    - - Hamlet is the hero- villain
      - Must have bad intentions to be villain- not evil
      - Good intention= good
- - - - Hamlet
        
        Sees Fortinbras as a model of behaviour
  - - - Adelman
    - - Mack
- - - - Order of importance throughout the book
        
        Claudius relationship with his mother always came first
      - Freud critic- ' the man who shows him the repressed wishes of childhood realised
        
        Suggests hamlet has a deep sexual desire of his mother and therefore cannot kill Claudius because he has everything he ever wanted. (His mother and being king)
        
        Freud theory- Every boy wants a sexual relationship with his mother. Every girl wants a sexual relationship with her father
      - Directing his anger/ frustration to Ophelia
        
        Angry at all women because of what his mother does
        
        pronounces a curse on ALL women, not just her: "Frailty, thy name is woman!" (I.ii.147)
        
        So, that curse includes Ophelia, and from that point on, he avoids her. Then, when she confronts him, he lets out a huge rant on all women in general-it is a way to indirectly vent his rage at his mother, since he suspects she is listening.
      - Quotes
        
        She married, O, most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets!" I.ii.156-7
        
        pronounces a curse on ALL women, not just her: "Frailty, thy name is woman!" (I.ii.147)
      - Dwelling on facts about his mothers sex life
        
        'She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
        With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!'
        
        'Let not the royal bed of Denmark be
        A couch for luxury and damnèd incest.'
        
        'so loving to my mother, that he might not better the winds of heaven visit her face too roughly
    - - Betrayal of father
        
        Ghost quotes
        
        'Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,
        With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts—'
    - - Mother of hamlet
      - Wife of Dead King Hamlet
      - New Wife of hamlets uncle who is now king
    - - Confrontation in her room
        
        'in the rank sweat of an endeared bed, stewed in corruption honeying and making love over the nasty sty-'
      - Killing of polonius
        
        Gertrude defends Hamlet by saying he "weeps for what is done'
      - She picks him over Claudius in the end
        
        'O my dear Hamlet! The drink, the drink! I am poisoned'
        
        Hamlet ends up avenging her instead of his father
- - - - King Claudius
        
        Disrupting great chain of being and divine right of being
        
        Greed and selfishness creating corruption. Claudius wanting to be the king and perhaps be with Gertrude motivates him to commit regicide.
        
        'The fat weed that roots itself in ease of the Lethe wharf'
      - Hamlet contemplating killing a king
        
        Conflict from this
        
        Critic Belsey agree
        
        Critic Bradely
    - - Hamlet allegedly pretends to be mad throughout the play in order to make Claudius unerestimate him in order to kill him and to punish them for their deeds, however this seems to become apart of Hamlet so it is difficult to tell if Hamlets madness is due to antic disposition or part of him .
      - Johnson critic
    - - Loyal to Claudius makes Hamlet dislike him
      - He has a courteous, long-winded, comical manner but with a nastiness running shallowly beneath the surface
      - Controlling over Ophelia
      - meddling and subversive
        
        Spying on Hamlet causes him to die
    - - What does the ghost ask
      - Critic Dover Wilson
      - Critic Verity