HAMLET分析PPT.ppt

1、the author,William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the worlds pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called Englands national poet. His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnet

2、s, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.,Hamlet is without question the most famous play in the English language. This tragedy is a milestone in Shakespeares

3、dramatic development; the playwright achieved artistic maturity in this work through his brilliant depiction of the heros struggle with two opposing forces: moral integrity and the need to avenge his fathers murder.,Hamlet,Dramatic structure,In creating Hamlet, Shakespeare broke several rules, one o

4、f the largest being the rule of action over character. In his day, plays were usually expected to follow the advice of Aristotle in his Poetics, which declared that a drama should not focus on character so much as action The highlights of Hamlet, however, are not the action scenes, but the soliloqui

5、es, wherein Hamlet reveals his motives and thoughts to the audience. Also, unlike Shakespeares other plays, there is no strong subplot; all plot forks are directly connected to the main vein of Hamlet struggling to gain revenge. The play is full of seeming discontinuities and irregularities of actio

6、n. At one point, Hamlet is resolved to kill Claudius: in the next scene, he is suddenly tame.,Language characteristic,Much of the plays language is in the elaborate, witty language expected of a royal court. Hamlet is the most skilled of all at rhetoric.,Characteristic,Shakespeares focus on this con

7、flict was a revolutionary departure from contemporary revenge tragedies, which tended to graphically dramatize violent acts on stage, in that it emphasized the heros dilemma rather than the depiction of bloody deeds.,Image,The dilemma of Hamlet the Prince and Man is to disentangle himself from the t

8、emptation to wreak justice for the wrong reasons and in evil passion, and to do what he must do at last for the pure sake of justice . From that dilemma of wrong feelings and right actions, he ultimately emerges, solving the problem by attaining a proper state of mind.,Hamlet endures as the object o

9、f universal identification because his central moral dilemma transcends the Elizabethan period, making him a man for all ages. In his difficult struggle to somehow act within a corrupt world and yet maintain his moral integrity, Hamlet ultimately reflects the fate of all human beings.,Literary Criti

10、cism,The play is full of constraint imagery .Hamlet struggles to turn his desire for revenge into action, and spends a large portion of the play waiting rather than doing. Hamlet describes Denmark as a prison, and himself as being caught in birdlime. He mocks the ability of man to bring about his ow

11、n ends, and points out that some divine force molds mens aims into something other than what they intend. Other characters also speak of constraint, such as Polonius, who orders his daughter to lock herself from Hamlets pursuit, and describes her as being tethered. This adds to the plays description of Hamlets inability to act out his revenge.,Influence,Hamlet is one of the most quoted works in the English language, and is often included on l