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Title: Hamlet


1
Hamlet
  • By William Shakespeare

2
Topics of Discussion
  • History
  • Aristotles Definition of a Tragic Hero
  • Appearance vs. Reality
  • Language
  • Apollonian vs Dionysian
  • Riddles

3
History
  • The Play Itself
  • The Issue of the Silent Majority
  • The Renaissance
  • The Reformation
  • Old Fortinbras (Norway) and Old Hamlet (Denmark)

4
Aristotles Definition of a Tragic Hero
  • Must Be of Noble Birth
  • Goes from Happiness to Misery
  • Not Totally Virtuous or Just
  • Not Steeped in Vice or Baseness
  • Flaw in Character
  • Error in Judgment
  • Inspires Pity and Fear

5
Appearance vs. Reality
  • Hamlets vs. Claudiuss Mourning
  • Polonius behind the Arras
  • Hamlets Audience for his Rants
  • The Ghost
  • Friendship of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
  • Hamlets Sanity

6
Language
  • Word Order
  • Oh that this too, too solid flesh
  • To be, or not to be
  • Honest vs. Fair
  • Get thee to a nunnery
  • Goodnight, sweet prince

7
Apollonian vs. Dionysian
  • Apollonion Based in Thought
  • Dionysian Based in Action
  • Miltons LAllegro and Il Penseroso
  • Need for balance

8
Riddles
  • The Role of the Fool in Literature
  • A little more than kin and less than kind
  • I am but mad north northwest
  • St. Valentines Day Song
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