PPT-Why Did T.S. Eliot Use Hamlet’s Figure?

TS ELIOT about HAMLETS FIGURE It is the  Mona Lisa of literature Hamlet ambiguity of Hamlets figureMona Lisas figure According to Bernard Berenson   TS Eliot criticised the subjective . realism.. . Arguably . the most paradigmatic motive of modernism is the rejection of . tradition and . its reprise, incorporation, rewriting, recapitulation, revision and parody in new . forms.. . Modernism . Hamlet has met up with his one true friend, . Horatio. . They are on their way back to the . castle. . It seems that, while on their way to . England. , . pirates. had attacked the ship Hamlet was on. In the confusion, Hamlet had gotten onto the pirate ship and managed to convince the pirates to bring him back home to . Learning Objective: students will understand the development of the play including plot, development, and themes.. Act 1, Scene 1: Brief summary. During the changing of the guard in the middle of the night; the soldiers are discussing the appearance of a ghost that looks like the dead King Hamlet dressed in battle gear. . Feminist theory. By: Angie Ellison, Jenny Torres, Minerva Dominguez, and Paulo Fonseca. Feminist . theory: . is the extension of feminism into theoretical, or philosophical . discourse; . it aims to understand the nature of . by William Shakespeare. Written during the first part of the seventeenth century (probably in 1600 or 1601), . Hamlet. was probably first performed in July 1602.. . Set in . Denmark, during the late medieval period. . Gertrude’s Betrayal and Allegiance. . “Mad as the Sea”. “He weeps for what he has done”. Gertrude promises Hamlet she will not tell Claudius about Polonius and Hamlet’s feigning madness, however, she runs to him immediately…. Ophelia doesn’t feature much in the play but her role is to show “. Hamlet's warped view of women as callous sexual predators, and the innocence and virtue of . women” – Shakespeare-online.com. BIRTH:. Thomas Stearns Eliot . September 26, 1888 in Missouri. . CHILDHOOD:. father, Henry Ware Eliot, . mother, Charlotte Champe Stearns, . was a teacher. . At the time of Eliot’s birth, his parents were in their mid-forties . Interesting stats. As of the year 2000, there had been 75 film versions made of . Hamlet. —the second most commonly adapted play in all of Shakespeare’s work.. Hamlet himself is the most dominant character in all of Shakespeare. His 1,506 lines of speech in the play account for 39% of the play’s lines.. 1. 1. What mood is established in this opening scene? How does Shakespeare establish this mood? . The . mood is dark, creepy, and sinister. Shakespeare establishes this mood by setting the opening scene of this tragic play just after midnight. There are three scared watchmen and a skeptical friend of Hamlet’s out on the watch, participating in a ghost-hunt. The audience should feel the tension right away and the cold weather reflects the mood. . The guards see a ghost. Ghost. Guard. Look where it comes again!. In the same figure like the king that’s dead!!. Act I. The new king has married the old king’s wife. Hamlet . Gertrude. Claudius . The Waste Land. . (2). Overview. Recap on last . lecture. A poem of allusion. Structure. Close reading. The Waste Land. Sources - myth and romance (see Jessie Weston, James Frazer). European literature in general. Hamlet. Permeates . our . culture: . T. he Simpsons. episode, . The Lion . King, etc.. Origins . of the . play:. Source = . Ur-Hamlet-. lost play. Popular in London in the 1580s.. Based on 9. th. century Saga. Pre-Viking Prince named . By Prof. Shikha Singh. 1. Introduction. The composition . of The Waste Land . has a textual history . which is ably reflected in . The waste Land Facsimile . and Transcript of the Original Draft. was edited by Valerie Eliot in 1971..