Hamlet Edexcel Critical quotations

‘Horatio is permitted to ______ the very ______ ___ of ______.’

commit, passionate act, suicide (Amanda Mabillard)

‘Hamlet does become a little like his idol Horatio in the acceptance of ______ ______ ________ ____ ____ _____ ____ ____.’

fate and the evil inherent of all men (Amanda Mabillard)

‘he is not a _____ ____ ____.’

puppet of fortune (Francis G Schoff)

[one of] ‘the two characters in the play in whom ____________.’

reason has swayed position (Lily B Campbell)

‘Hamlet seems ____________ by his mother than by his father’

motivated more (Janet Adelman)

‘her _____ is the garden in which her husband dies, her ______ the poisonous weeds that kill him’

body, sexuality (Janet Adelman)

‘she plays out the role of the _____________’

missing Eve (Janet Adelman)

‘she is kept _______________________ as a character’

ambiguously innocent (Janet Adelman)

[Hamlet’s] ‘disgust is _____________________’

occasioned by his mother (T.S. Eliot)

‘her character is so _______________________’

negative and insignificant (T.S. Eliot)

‘she ________ in Hamlet the ______ which she is incapable of representing.’

arouses, feeling (T.S. Eliot)

‘with unnerving _______ and __________ paternal authority.’

intensity, overbearing (Camille Paglia)

‘for the head of state to be at ease on leisurely afternoons means the ________________.’

nation is at peace (Camille Paglia)

‘a king napping would symbolize _________________________,’

the harmony of nature and society (Camille Paglia)

‘Shows ___________ collapsing into the realm of ________________.’

civilisation, gross matter (Camille Paglia)

‘Shakespeare’s armed Ghost resembles a ______________ of his kind.’

corporeal revenant (Catherine Belsey)

‘always accompanied by a troubling _____________________’

undercurrent of suspicion (Helen Hackett)

‘Shakespeare’s concerns with friendship _________________________’

help enrich his tragedy (Robert C. Evans)

‘whose very _____________ helps emphasize Hamlet's __________’

pairing, isolation (Robert C. Evans)

‘perhaps Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were introduced into the play to _________________________.’

furnish Hamlet some real help (A.F. Olney)

‘The ________ between Hamlet and Fortinbras are ____________.’

parallels, truly striking (K.R. Eissler)

‘Fortinbras is dealing only with _________________; he himself is free of __________________.’

external obstacles, internal ones (K.R. Eissler)

‘Hamlet is a __________ in the _______________’

living death, midst of life (G Wilson Knight)

‘this play is so ______ in _________.’

rich, death (G Wilson Knight)

‘his _____ affects the welfare of a whole nation or _____’

fate, empire (A.C. Bradley)

‘…Shakespeare seems to be ______________ __________ the body.’

methodically deconstructing (John Dixon Hunt)

‘Hamlet is a religious play because it deals with the ______________ and ____________, a primary theme in all high religion.’

relation of evil and Providence (William Hamilton)

‘Hamlet is a Christian prince whose ______________ and _________ fit him to be the hero in a Christian tragedy.’

basic moral sensitivity, rectitude (Sister Miriam Joseph)

‘The _________________ of reformation vies for priority with the ____________ of revenge.’

covert drama, overt drama (Janet Adelman) 

‘‘It is enough that Hamlet wears, even if it is for the moment self-assumed, the ________________.’

guise of a madman (Maynard Mack) 

‘Denmark is like a stage in which the major characters, except Horatio _________________.’

are given roles (C. R. Forker)  

‘both he and Hamlet can be ______________________ – Hamlet about the corruption of human nature,’

privileged in madness to say things (Maynard Mack) 

‘the madness verbally assigned to other Shakespearean tragic heroes – contains ___________ and __________.’

both punishment, insight (Maynard Mack)

‘Shakespeare himself, perhaps – who had been given the power to see the truth, ___________________ – what we commonly call a ‘fiction’, and dismiss.’

can convey it only through poetry (Maynard Mack)

‘Remembrance haunts him, __________________, and call this the heart of his mystery.’

even to the point of madness (John Kerrigan) 

‘Shakespeare’s concerns with __________ help _________ his tragedy’

friendship, enrich (Robert C. Evans)  

‘Hamlet _________________ his heritage’

explicitly rejects (Andrew Brown)

‘whose very __________ helps emphazise Hamlet’s isolation’

pairing (Robert Evans)

‘the distresses of Hamlet are transferred, ______________ , to the general account of humanity.’

by the turn of his mind (William Hazlitt)  

‘Hamlet finds he cannot separate the apparently _________________________’

contrary energies of the theatre (John Scott Colley)

‘His art is intended to ___________’

hide his matter (Myron Taylor)

’He is the ___________, the toad at the ear of Eve, and the "Peeping-Tom.”’

archetypal spy (Myron Taylor)

‘Ophelia becomes _______, playing into the ______ only Hamlet is acting at.’

alienated, madness (Carol Thomas Neely)

‘she becomes the ________ for a ________________ world.’

mirror, madness-inducing (David Leverenz)

‘the ________ deepens the __________ that surrounds the ghosts identity’

uncertainty, enigma (Catherine Belsey)

‘The ______________ between the Prince and the rest of the court is striking, and stands as an _______________________’

visual contrast, outward symbol of moral contrasts (Roland Mushrat Frye)

‘Shakespeare knew how important costume is as a means of producing certain ______________’

dramatic effects (Oscar Wilde)

‘From beginning to end he is a _______________ who has never a _______________’

wandering ineptitude, single suggestion (Thomas M. Kettle)

"Hamlet's disgust at the ________ in himself is translated into ____________ against women,’

feminine passivity, violent revulsion (Showalter)

‘Hamlet represents a nation ruled by a __________________ court’

paranoid and unstable (Andrew Hadfield)

‘Claudius shows every sign of being an _____________ and king’

excellent diplomatist (G Wilson Knight)

"Fortinbras was a __________ than Hamlet would have been."

better king (Yeats)