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Hamlet: Motifs
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HAMLET : MOTIFS & THEMES
Morality
- To Thine Own Self Be True
- No Compassion
- Kant's Radical Evil
- Don't understand that their actions have consequences which ultimatley hurt them
- Faustian Baragin- Claudius
- Gets Gertrude and Power for a short time
- Satanic Prediciment
- Get what they want but don't want what they get in result: death
Gertrude.
- through a man
Claudius.
- being king
- to have Gertrude
Polonius.
- higher rank in Ellsinore
- spying for Claudius
Religion
Marriage Bed
- Sancity between man and wife
- Hamlet Senior and Gertrude
- Place of incest and adultery
- Claudius and Gertrude
Nunnery
- Place of reverance for God/ worship
- When applied to Ophelia, it is considered a brothel
- Only character with virtue
Church
- Place of safety, confession, renewal
- Claudius confesses but does not repent
- Saved from the death of Hamlet
- Place of ill thoughts and murder plots
- Laertes to kill Hamlet
Sexuality
Gertrude.
- Weak and Insecure
- Lonely because Hamlet Senior is absent
- Find security in Clauduis who is always there
Ophelia.
- Only has Gertrude for a role model
- Controlled/ Abused by all men
- Only one with virtues
Hamlet.
- Hid in the shadow of Hamlet Senior
- No leadership skills
- Doesn't kill Claudius because he couldn't lose another father figure to model even if he hates him
Revenge
DEATH
- Elsinor is a sick society-> sick members
- Hamlet acts crazy to find the truth
- Believes his own insanity
- Ophelia is freed from societies burden
- Able to say what she feels freely
Sickness
Skull
- brutality
- inescapable
Grave
- people are nonchalant
- don't see how they contribute
Cantrapasso
- die the way they live
- Claudius
- Polonius
Power
Kant, Socrates, Freud, Feminist, Nietzsche
Father
- Hamlet
- Fortinbra
- Laertes
Mouse Trap
- find out guilt
- traps Hamlet into having
commit to killing Claudius
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