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Revenge Tragedy

Revenge Tragedy. The Elizabethan Age and Hamlet. Characteristics. A melancholy , hesitant hero/avenger A villain Complex plotting Murder (typically from sexual motives) Sexual obsession/lust related to the desire for revenge. Play-within-a-play A ghost (usually calls for vengeance)

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Revenge Tragedy

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  1. Revenge Tragedy The Elizabethan Age and Hamlet

  2. Characteristics • A melancholy , hesitant hero/avenger • A villain • Complex plotting • Murder (typically from sexual motives) • Sexual obsession/lust related to the desire for revenge • Play-within-a-play • A ghost (usually calls for vengeance) • Real or faked insanity • Death

  3. Typical Structure • 1. Exposition: ghost provides vengeance motive • 2. Anticipation: detailed planning takes place • 3. Confrontation: avenger versus victim • 4. Delay: avenger hesitates to kill • 5. Completion: revenge is completed. Usually the avenger dies

  4. Hamlet • Hamlet has 3 Revenge Plots • Hamlet swears revenge on Claudius • Laertes swears revenge on Hamlet • Fortinbras swears revenge on King Hamlet

  5. Morality of Revenge • Human impulse to exact retribution from one who has wronged you or a family member • Code of Hammurabi • Old Testament maxim “an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth” • “Code of Honor”

  6. Morality of RevengeElizabethan Age • Civilly, revenge was a crime • Punished as murder • Religiously, revenge was a sin • Soul is damned, condemned to suffer everlasting torment in Hell • Is revenge always wrong?

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