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Hamlet Essay Plans

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Contains 36 essay plans on ‘Hamlet’, which is the equivalent to nearly 43000 words! Essay plans include critics (AO5), symbolism, key ideas and interpretations! Plans include themes such as violence, loyalty, gender roles, etc., as well as characters including Claudius, Horatio, Gertrude and th...

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Hamlet Essay Plans
Explore Shakespeare’s presentaton oo conflct ln ‘Hamlet’.
Conflict = tension, violence, revenge, morality, internal struggles and misery
 A key component of tragedy – rising acton leads to the climax (usually death)

Characters afected by conflict
 Hamlet – external conflict (revenge; anger towards Gertrude; falling out with
Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern); internal conflict (soliloquies, ‘to be or not to
be’, vacillatng about revenge, madness)
 Ophelia – dragged into conflict by her father and Claudius to spy on Hamlet; later
experiences internal conflict (madness and grief)
 Claudius – also struggles with internal conflict (‘o heavy burden’ soliloquy), but he is
the fundamental cause of conflict in the play (kills King Hamlet, which pushes Hamlet
to seek revenge; encourages Laertes to kill Hamlet; strips Gertrude of her status as a
‘seeming-virtuous Queen’, which establishes conflict and unease in Hamlet’s
relatonship with his mother)
 Horato – tries to discourage Hamlet from encountering the ghost (but ‘capricious
fate’ – Kastan – appears to prevent Horato from protectng his friend from being
embroiled in ‘revengeful’ conflict)
 Gertrude – disparaged by Hamlet for her ‘incestuous’ behaviour with Claudius;
experiences internal conflict (‘sick soul’) – yet she is never granted the opportunity
to express her feelings in soliloquies, unlike Hamlet and Claudius (male conflict = all
that matered in Shakespearian tmes?)
 Polonius – accidentally killed by Hamlet (the product of conflict = death)

What does conflict create?
 Sufering (Ophelia’s madness, Hamlet’s soliloquies, Laertes’ revenge following
Polonius’s death)
 Loss (Gertrude’s purity, death, Ophelia is no longer ‘fair’ because of lying to Hamlet –
loss of friendship)
 Metatheatre (Hamlet’s way of ‘capturing the conscience of the king’)
 Madness (Hamlet appears to feign it)
 Duplicity (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are ‘sponges’ to absorb Claudius’s lies and
spy on Hamlet; Ophelia spies on Hamlet, Claudius’s blank verse speeches conceal his
‘painted word’)
Context
 Mirrors politcal conflicts during the reign of Elizabeth I – ‘something is roten in the
state of Denmark’ (recurring symbolism of decay represents corrupton in the Britsh
monarchy)

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