Ray Eston Smith
07-26-2006, 03:16 PM
Please take a look at my Hamlet website, members.cox.net/jhaldenwang/thyorison.htm
Please read my essays in wikinfo and post your own and add links to them on the Motifs in Hamlet page.
There are a number of interlocking motifs in Hamlet which reveal much about Hamlet’s character and the themes of the play. See Motif (literature)
(1) Hamlet's Wheel Motif
Fine revolution, knave/nave, whirling words, circumstance, circumscribed, whale/wheel, how the wheel becomes it, at the center, be round with him, it would be spoke to, to the top of my bent.
(2) Dirt, Death, Purgatory Motif in Hamlet
Kings caused thousands of deaths by fighting wars over land, thus, in the dirt, death, purgatory motif in Hamlet associates land with death. There is also a connection between purgatory and land in English history.
(3) Death, Birth, Grave, Womb Motif in Hamlet
There is a motif associating death with birth and graves with wombs.
Since kings cause thousands of deaths by fighting wars over land, Hamlet equated his own birth and that of any future son with death and equated wombs with graves and land with graveyards.
(4) Hamlet's Fish Motif
The fish motif in Hamlet involves the carp of truth, a fishmonger, a man who ate a fish who ate a worm, and wormwood.
(5) Hamlet's Silence and the Voice of Denmark Motif
When Hamlet said "the rest is silence," he meant that he was finally free from the "voice of Denmark".
(6) Hamlet's Question Motif
Who's there, essential question of the play be then to be, to be or not to be, that is the question, so like the king that was and is the question of these wars, crowners quest
New link to article at academic publishing wiki: http://academia.wikia.com/wiki/Motifs_in_Hamlet
- Ray
Please read my essays in wikinfo and post your own and add links to them on the Motifs in Hamlet page.
There are a number of interlocking motifs in Hamlet which reveal much about Hamlet’s character and the themes of the play. See Motif (literature)
(1) Hamlet's Wheel Motif
Fine revolution, knave/nave, whirling words, circumstance, circumscribed, whale/wheel, how the wheel becomes it, at the center, be round with him, it would be spoke to, to the top of my bent.
(2) Dirt, Death, Purgatory Motif in Hamlet
Kings caused thousands of deaths by fighting wars over land, thus, in the dirt, death, purgatory motif in Hamlet associates land with death. There is also a connection between purgatory and land in English history.
(3) Death, Birth, Grave, Womb Motif in Hamlet
There is a motif associating death with birth and graves with wombs.
Since kings cause thousands of deaths by fighting wars over land, Hamlet equated his own birth and that of any future son with death and equated wombs with graves and land with graveyards.
(4) Hamlet's Fish Motif
The fish motif in Hamlet involves the carp of truth, a fishmonger, a man who ate a fish who ate a worm, and wormwood.
(5) Hamlet's Silence and the Voice of Denmark Motif
When Hamlet said "the rest is silence," he meant that he was finally free from the "voice of Denmark".
(6) Hamlet's Question Motif
Who's there, essential question of the play be then to be, to be or not to be, that is the question, so like the king that was and is the question of these wars, crowners quest
New link to article at academic publishing wiki: http://academia.wikia.com/wiki/Motifs_in_Hamlet
- Ray