1. LITERARY CRITICISM HAMLET

2. Ernest Jones Tragedy and the Mind of the Infant
Why can’t Hamlet kill Claudius?

3. Arnold Kettle Hamlet in a Changing World
Kettle views Hamlet favorably. Why?
How does Hamlet act as a man vs. a prince?

4. Harold Bloom Inferring Hamlet
“As a mediation upon human fragility in confrontation with death, it competes only with the world’s scriptures” (Bloom 3).
How does Bloom categorize and describe Hamlet?

5. Harold Bloom Ophelia
To what, or whom, does Bloom attribute Ophelia’s death?

6. Harold Bloom Horatio
According to Bloom, “we are Horatio” and “our representative…is Horatio”
(Bloom 13 & 17). Explain.