Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Corruption in Hamlet
- Revenge
- Corruption of
ones mind = madness
- Hamlet is taken over by
revenge and unaware of his action
- 'Corruption is like a
weed that grows and
spreads
- Hamlet's
revengful actions
corrupt the minds
of others
- Even how
he doesn't
act
- 'And so am I
revenged. That
would be
scanned'
- Therefore
shows how his
mind is
corrupted
from his
morality -
deciding
whether to do
the right thing
or not.
- Intro
- Introduce Q - mention characters
involved (claudius, hamlet, gertrude
ect)
- How that ultimately affects the state of
Denmark
- TRAGEDY
- 'Something is
rotten in the
state of
Denmark'
- CLAUDIUS!!!!!
- Blind loyalty and
manipulation
- CORRUPTS ONES MORALITY
- Ophelia
- LOVE LETTERS
- Ophelia rejecting the letters from
Hamlet that he sends her.
- Corruption of friendships.
- POLONIUS' POSSESSIVE
ACTIONS TOWARDS OPHELIA
- 'Like you asked.'
- Hamlet's trust+love for those
closest to him being
manipulated.
- R+G
- Do not value
friendship with
Hamlet
anymore
- 'But we both obey'
- Shows how they're
following the hierarchy
and doing what Claudius
says, showing a
manipulation over R+G
that Claudius has, and
the corruption of
friendship that leads
Hamlet to madness.
- Greed + Chain of events
- Greed is the inception of
corruption + creates a
cascading effect in
Hamlet
- Claudius' greed for the
throne sets off the
chain of events
- The unnatural coronation of Claudius
is corrupting to Denmark
- CONTEXT