Summary A Level Essay Plan: Doubt in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
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Course
Drama and poetry pre-1900 (H47201)
Institution
OCR
Book
Hamlet
An essay plan formulated based on my study notes for the A-level Drama and Poetry section of the course, studying specifically Shakespeare’s Hamlet featuring analysis, context and critics surrounding the theme of doubt which could potentially come up in a future exam in the part b section. This ...
Hamlet is a play which presents
doubt as a merit opposed to a flaw
Act 1, Scene 5 Act 2 Scene 1 Act 2 Scene 2
Act 5 Scene 2 Act 3 Scene 3 Act 4 Scene 4
1- Hamlet is doubtful as he wants to spur the most revengeful revenge- and he does so.
2-Doubt leads to deceit within the monarchy
3-Doubt leads to delay
Point 1- Hamlet’s doubt makes him the best
revenger.
Hamlets doubt, as a result of a desire to perfect his revenge, leads to a long toying of his
prey of Claudius before he kills him. He ensures his time as king is miserable and
tedious, full of anxiety
Act 4 Scene 4 | Act 2 Scene 2 | Act 1 Scene 5
Act 4 scene 4
“Spur my dull revenge”
“How stand i then that have a father killed and a mother stained. Excitement of my
reason and my blood and let all sleep?” - hamlet depicts himself as a sleeping soldier.
Within the soliloquy he dissects his reasons for doubts and fuels them for a revenge.
“My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!”
“I do not know why yet i live to say ‘This things to do’: Hamlet shows uncertainty what
the source of his doubt and delay is.
Act 2, Scene 2
After seeing the players act so convincingly a death that isnt even real, hamlet questions.
Hamlet is a play which presents doubt as a merit opposed to a flaw 1
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