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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Study Notes on Hamlet's Melancholy (from A.C. Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy).

WHY DOES HAMLET DELAY?

The reason is: hes melancholic. This state of mind is quite a unnatural to him and induced by special circumstances. The Schlegel-Coleridge theory states that Hamlets expertness to act has been eaten up by thought. Bradley states that Hamlets reflectiveness played a real part in the production of the melancholic and was only a contributory cause of his irresolution to act. Of course, melancholy once established only induced more and more thinking so it is a symptom as well.

HAMLET WAS NOT NORMALLY disincline TO ACTION

Nobody who knew him considered him a mere scholar who has never executed a deed. In the court he was highly considered although he was deprive of the throne by his uncle. He was the favorite of the people who bring in no inclination to love frail philosophers. He was crank of fencing and practiced even in his darkest hours. He must(prenominal) abide usually been resolute and fearless: how else would he have followed the ghost, how would he have killed Polonius, dealt with the kings commission, boarded the pirate ship, leapt into the grave, executed his final retaliation?

WHAT DOES HAMLETS MELANCHOLY IMPLY?

He was inclined to nervous instability, to mood-swings. He was slow consumed and for a long succession by moods whether joyous or depressed.

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This meant melancholy to the Elizabethans, and indeed, the theory of temperaments was so familiar in Shakespeares time that he may have made Hamlet melancholy on purpose. He gave to Hamlet a temperament which would not develop melancholy unless under certain exceptional circumstances.

HAMLET IS A DISILLUSIONED IDEALIST

There is in Hamlet an unusually sensitivity to moralisticistic good and evil - in the broadest sense of the word moral. He had the soul of the youthful poet, an unbounded delight and credence in everything good...

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