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David Leverenz on Hamlet.
Hamlet sees Gertrude give way to Claudius and Ophelia give way to Polonius.
David Leverenz on Gertrude
Gertrudes inconsistancy brings on feelings of disgust.Diseased doubleness of thosewho accommodate to their social role.
Laing on Ophelia
She is not a person. She has already died. In her madness there is no one there.
David Leverenz on Ophelia
Many voices in her madness but none of them are hers. She becomes the mirror of a mad- inducing world. She goes mad rather than gets mad.
David Levernz on Ophelia
Driven mad by having her feelings misrepresented, not responded to or acknowledged. Ophelia has no choice. She is valued for her roles that further others plots.
Showalter on Ophelia
Ophelia is deprived of thought, sexuality and language
Smith on Gertrude
Gertrude's speeches include references to honour, and virtue, neither structure nor content suggests wantonness. Pleasing men is her main interest.
Goethe on Hamlet
All duties seem holy to Hamlet.
Mackenzie on Hamlet
Hamlet is irresolute and inactive.
Walter on Polonius
Cold-hearted devil
Tree on the play
The key comic element of this play is madness.
Josipovici on Hamlet
He is being asked as a son who surely loves his father to avenge his fathers foul and unnatural murder.
Lewis on Hamlet
Hamlet is haunted not by a physical fear of dying, but of being dead.
Levin on the play
Madness, as the abandonment of reason, is a constant danger throughout the play.
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