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AQA English Lit paper 1 - Hamlet

a thread for ppl doing hamlet :smile:

some AO5 quotes

• H’s soliloquies ‘are not needed to advance the story. If anything … they compete with and ****** the action’ (James Shapiro) – action, conflict
• ‘Claudius is a gentle and goodly king’. (G. Wilson Knight) – conflict, deception
• ‘Hamlet is naturally appalled to find himself failing to play the prescribed royal part of righteous avenging son.’ (Kiernan Ryan) – revenge, conflict
• There is no doubt that Claudius was a thoroughly bad man.’ (Alex Crawford) – deception,
• ‘To some extent, at least, acting is what the play is about.’ (John Hudson) acting, deception
• ‘Hamlet – both the character and the play in which he appears – is deeply concerned with performance.’ (Gillian Woods) acting/ deception
• Hamlet himself, despite his petulant outburst against ‘seeming’, cannot escape the human impulse to perform. (Gillian Wood) acting
• Hamlet may have started the play by rejecting ‘seeming’ appearances, but his way of understanding and dealing with his situation is pointedly theatrical (Gillian Wood) revenge, acting
• ‘In becoming the cliched bloody revenger, Hamlet will be performing a role which feels inauthentic.’ (Joe Sutcliffe) – revenge, acting,
• The renaissance individual is an “individual in crisis” – Jonathan Dollimore - conflict, madness
• Montaigne’s writing “internalises conflicting forces” and a new “depth of self-revelation” – James Shapiro - conflict
• The image of weeds (play within a play) “symbolises the untended wilderness of sin that threatens the fragile garden” – Lillia Grindlay – conflict, morality
• “the ghost is corrupting Hamlet with his thirst for vengeance” – Philip Edwards - revenge, corruption
• “there was more than enough sceptisiscm and uncertainty to go around in England in the final years of elizabeths reign” – james Shapiro - deception
• “the charms of hamlets mind are essentially feminine in nature” – Edward p vining – gender, conflict