Formalist and Psychological Approach in Hamlet

Presented by Komal Shahedadpuri m

Smt.S.B. Gardi Department of English MKBU

Presentation Topic :Formalist and Psychological Approach in Hamlet.

Paper No:1 The Renaissance Literature

M.A Sem -1

Roll no-21

Batch : 2016-2018

Email Id : komaltara1311@gmail.com

Enrolment No: 2069108420170027

Different Approches in Hamlet

Traditional Approach

Taxual Approach

Historical and Biographical Approach

Moral and Philosophical Approach

Feminism or Gender and Cultural Studies

Mythical and Archetypal Approach

Formalist and Psychological Approach

Formalist Approach

Dialectic Form

The Trap Metaphor 1)The Trap Imagery 2)The Cosmological Trap 3)Seeming and Being 4)Seeing and Knowing

The Trap Imagery and
The Cosmological Trap

The Trap Imagery

Hamlet- The Mousetrap for Claudius

Claudius's Trap to kill his brother King Hamlet

Polonius's Trap for Prince Hamlet

Example: Hoist with his own Petard

The Cosmological Trap

Mysterious Elements

Intervention of Nature

Seeming and Being
Seeing and Knowing

Seeming and Being

Hamlet-One may smile and smile and be a Villan

The Character of Claudius

Opposion to the easy acceptence of Things as they are

Seeing and Knowing

Our eyes may bluff us sometimes, but not our Experience

Ophelia- Lord we know what we are ,but we know not what we may be

Psychological Approach

Freud: 1) The Ego of the Id 2) Anatomy of Mental Personality 3) The Dissection of Psychical Personality

Norman Holland: 'The Shakespearean Imagination'

Ernest Jones: 'Hamlet and Oedipus'

Claudia Morrison: 'Freud and the Critic'

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Oedipus Complex

Child's desire for parent of opposite sex.

Hamlet suffers from Oedipus Complex.Misogyny

For his own mother Gertrude

For his beloved Ophelia

Get thee to a nunnery