Comparative — Contrasting Perspectives and Values (HSC SSCE English Advanced): Flashcards
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Where does Hamlet locate corruption vs Dickinson?
Where does Hamlet locate corruption vs Dickinson?
Hamlet: external (Danish court); Dickinson: internal consciousness
What does 'rotten in state of Denmark' exemplify?
What does 'rotten in state of Denmark' exemplify?
Renaissance microcosm-macrocosm collapse concept
Dickinson Poem 96: 'The Brain has Corridors' - what theme?
Dickinson Poem 96: 'The Brain has Corridors' - what theme?
Cognitive gothic - internal consciousness as haunted space
Hamlet's rhetorical mode vs Dickinson's?
Hamlet's rhetorical mode vs Dickinson's?
Hamlet: public soliloquy; Dickinson: private elliptical lyric
Define 'antithetical dialectic' in Hamlet
Define 'antithetical dialectic' in Hamlet
Renaissance technique of weighing opposing arguments
Hamlet's resolution type vs Dickinson's?
Hamlet's resolution type vs Dickinson's?
Hamlet: providential closure; Dickinson: eternal conversation
What is Hamlet's hamartia (tragic flaw)?
What is Hamlet's hamartia (tragic flaw)?
Renaissance overthinking/excessive contemplation
'Conscience makes cowards' - what does 'conscience' mean here?
'Conscience makes cowards' - what does 'conscience' mean here?
Consciousness or thought (not moral conscience)
Dickinson Poem 64: 'Much Madness is divinest ___?'
Dickinson Poem 64: 'Much Madness is divinest ___?'
Sense - celebrates cognitive minority vs Calvinist orthodoxy
Define Hamlet's 'antic disposition'
Define Hamlet's 'antic disposition'
Feigned madness used strategically to speak dangerous truths