HAMLET AND ORESTES (Greeshma Jose. J )

HAMLET AND ORESTES

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             J. Greeshma Jose

1. The two characters, Hamlet and Orestes are regarded as traditional types.

2. Gilbert Murray tends not to compare play with play but simply character with character.

3. Orestes, the Greek traditional tragic hero occurs in seven tragedies whereas Oedipus in                                                                                                                      three and Agamemnon in four.

4. Shakespeare's second quarto of Hamlet was published in 1604.

5. Hamlet's first quarto dated 1603 is entitled as The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmark.

6. Saxo Grammaticus in his great History of the Danes calls his hero Amlehtus or Amlodi.

7. In both the Greek and Northern versions the hero is the son of a king who has been murdered and succeeded on the throne by a younger kinsman.

8. Who is Aegisthus?

            The younger kinsman and also a cousin who succeeds the throne in the Greek version.

9. Who is Feng or Claudius?

            The younger brother and the younger kinsman in the Northern version.

10. In all the versions the hero is under the shadow of madness.     

11. In the Greek the complete madness comes only as a result of the mother-murder.

12. What does Amlodi mean?

            Fool

13. Which are the characters known to feign madness?

            Amlodi, Brutus, and Shakespeare's Hamlet

14. Which are the characters coming in disguise when they are supposed to be dead?

            Orestes, Amlodi, and Hamlet 

15. What is the appearance of  a fool?

            Dirtiness and disorder in dress

16. How does a fool speak?

            A fool speaks in riddles and is abusive and gross in his language.

17. In Ambales, the hero's language is habitually outrageous , especially to women.

18. When the main drama begins, Orestes is in Phocis and Hamlet is in Wittenberg.

19. Clytemnestra dreams that she gives birth to a serpent which bites her breast. 

20. One of the greatest horrors about the father's death in both the traditions is that he died without the due religious observances.

21. In the Greek tragedies, the lack of religious burial is almost the central horror o the whole       

       story and wherever it is mentioned it comes as something intolerable and maddening to

       Orestes.

22. Name the faithful friend of Orestes and Hamlet.

            Orestes-Pylades,  Hamlet-Horatio

23. In Greek though the hero's mother has her part implicated in the murder , yet the tradition   keeps her sympathetic.

24. Who is Hermutrude?

            Amlodi's wife

25. Which queen is referred to as the one who boldly hates her husband and murders him?

            Clytemnestra