Hamlet act 1 motifs

Disease and poison Physical disease , mental disease Claudius poisons king hamlet
Appearence & Reality What is VS what should be
Fortune fate and providence All mean fate
Revenge Will fuel the action to plot Ghost king hamlet wants revenge on claudius
Frailty “Frailty thy women are weak” Women are weak
Public and private warfare Private – internal conflict Hamlet is having inner conflict about marriage
Conflicts betweem older and younger generations Parent and child Ophelia and polonius
Fidelty and treachery Faithfulness and murder
Unquiet Slumber Inability to sleep inability to rest when dead – ghost
Incest Cluadius and queen gertrude
Purgatory Place between heaven and hell Ghost
Roles and portrayals of women 2 female characters