Conscience does make cowards of us all. Hamlet the sceptic thinker - an anti-hero? (Paperback)

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: As the protagonist of Shakespeare's play Hamlet, the young Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is popularly considered a heroic figure, revenging the murder of his father who was poisoned by Claudius, Hamlet's uncle. He appears to be an archetypical Renaissance figure, a versatile character that contains something of everything within him: "He is the sophisticated thinker and the powerless politician; the resentful child and the sober student; the moral Puritan and the deranged Prince; the witty murderer and the cold-blooded jester." Since Michael Davies speaks of Hamlet's supposed renaissance variety "as a compendium of selves" and therefore of a rather "modern man of no fixed identity," we will in the context of this work examine the question whether Hamlet could be considered an anti-hero by pointing out certain traits of his introverted nature and the significant impact of self-reflection on Hamlet's behaviour throughout the play.

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Imprint:	Grin Verlag
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2013
First published:	October 2013
Authors:	David Schumann
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 1mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	20
ISBN-13:	978-3-656-50869-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > General Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	3-656-50869-0
Barcode:	9783656508694

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