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1. HAMLET By William Shakespeare

2. •Certainity - Uncertainity
•Action
•Death
•The Nation as a Deceased Body
•Madness

3.  In Hamlet we can find questions about the certainty of facts.
 Ghosts?
 A crime that has no witness at all?
 Hamlet has been seen as a play about indecisiveness.
 Hamlet shows a life of uncertainties.

4.  The question of how to act is affected by:
 Need of certainty
 Emotional
 Ethical
 Psychological
Factors
Hamlet Othercharacters
- Thinks abstractly about action.
- His actions are violent.
- Don’t care so much about how to act.
- Their actions are controlled.
- The result of their actions leads them to
digrace.

5. Two perspectives of death :
Spiritual perspective
Physical perspective
Death is also
cause
consequence
of revenge
Death is related with
Truth and uncertainty
Spirituality suicide moral or not
The Christian religion prohibition
is
in which
despite

6. welfare
actions
- Denmark is frequently described as ill body by the moral corruption of
the monarchs.
- At the end, when Fortimbras takes the power, it is suggested that
Denmark will strengthen again

7.  Hamlet's originally acts mad (crazy, not angry) to fool people into
think he is harmless while probing his father's death and
Claudius's involvement.
 Polonius falsely believes Hamlet's madness stems from Hamlet's
love of Ophelia.
 But as the play progresses, His acting mad seems to cause Hamlet
to lose his grip on reality.

8.  Incest
 Misogyny
 Ears&Hearing

9. Gertrude and Claudius Brotherin-lawand sisterin-lawnow
married.
Laertes and Ophelia - Laertes speaks to her in sexual
terms.
- He leaps her into her grave to hold
her in his arms.
Hamlet and Gertrude - Hamlet’s fixation on Gertrude’s sex
life.
- Hamlet’s preoccupation for her.

10.  Misogyny occurs sporadically
throughout the play.
 Hamlet becomes cynical about
woman in general.
 There’s a connection between
female sexuality and corruption.
 It is an inhibiting factor in
Hamlet’s relationship with
Ophelia and Gertrude.

11.  Words are used to communicate ideas, but also
they can
 Distort the truth
 Manipulate other people
 Serve as tools in corrupt quests of power
 The sinister uses of words are represented by
images of ears and hearing:
 Claudius’s murder of the king by pouring poison in
his ear
 Hamlet: «I have words to speak in thane ear will
make thee dumb»

13.  Hamlet fixates on death’s inevitability and the
disintegration of the body.
 No one can avoid death.