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Edexcel A level English literature Hamlet Critics A05 2024 Exam review
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Edexcel A level English literature HamletCritics A05 2024 Exam review
'Claudius shows every sign of being an excellent diplomat and
King' - Answer>>Knight
'In Shakespeare's society, the ideal female is cherished for her
youth, beauty and purity.' - Answer>>Rogers
'Ophelia is stifled by the authority of the male world' -
Answer>>Juliet Dusinberre
Hamlet seems incapable of deliberate action - Answer>>Hazlitt
'Hamlet is in fact the poison in the veins of the community' -
Answer>>Knight
Hamlet's delay is due to a state of mind 'quite abnormal and
induced by special circumstances... - Answer>>Bradley
'The Ghost is the linchpin of Hamlet' - Answer>>John Dover
Wilson
Hamlet's soliloquy in 3.1 is 'entirely motivated by reason and
untouched by passion' - Answer>>Newell
"Claudius is not a monster; he is morally weak." -
Answer>>Mabillard
Claudius' soliloquy "gives the impression of rhetorical pageantry
rather than sincere contrition" - Answer>>Arnold
, 'Hamlet reveres his father as if he were far removed from the
merely human, semi-divine, transcendent.' (John Russell) -
Answer>>John Russell
Hamlet is a 'tragedy of thought' - Answer>>Bradley
'Hamlet can be privileged in madness to say things...about the
corruption of human nature'. - Answer>>Mack
'Through madness, Ophelia suddenly makes a forceful assertion
of her being.' - Answer>>Charney
'In the final act, Hamlet accepts his world and we discover a
different man'. - Answer>>Mack
'Hamlet is a tragedy without catharsis - Answer>>Frye
the opening scene of hamlet is as well constructed an opening as
that of any play written - Answer>>T.S Elliot
Hamlet is a tragedy without catharsis in everything noble and
heroic is smothered under ferocious revenge codes treachery,
spying and the consequences of weak actions by broken wills -
Answer>>Frye
The ghost is the linchpin of the play; remove it and the play will
fall to pieces - Answer>>Wilson
"Claudius shows every sign of being an excellent diplomatist and
king" - Answer>>Knight
Claudius is not a monster, he is morally weak -
Answer>>Mabillard
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