Claudius: -“His conscience, though ineffective, is far from being dead.”
Ophelia: -“A large number of readers feel a kind of personal irritation against her. They seem unable to forgive her for not having been a heroine, and they fancy her much weaker than she was. They think she ought to have been able to help Hamlet to fulfil his task. And they betray, it appears to me, the strangest misconceptions as to what she actually did.”
General: -“It’s not that Hamlet is Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy or most perfect work, it was that Hamlet most brings home to us… the sense of the soul’s infinity.”
Hamlet: -"his moral sensibility and his genius, become his enemies"
-"his adoption of the pretence of madness may well have been due in part fear of the reality"
-"Melancholy is something very different from insanity... no doubt it might develop into insanity"
-"longing for death might become an irresistible impulse to self destruction"
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