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This 5 page report explores the idea that “Hamlet” was what literary critic Northrup Frye described as the “central and most significant play, because it dramatized a central preoccupation of the age of Romanticism: the conflict of consciousness and action...No other play has explored the paradoxes of action and thinking about action so deeply.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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deceptively simple insight that "Literature is what a society uses to define itself." The observation that he makes regarding Shakespeares Hamlet and how it was viewed throughout the 19th century
and into the 20th century as being the "central and most significant" of Shakespeares works says more about the people who interpreted it than it does about the drama itself.
He adds that because Hamlet presented the typical ideals of the age of Romanticism -- a dominant literary movement of the 19th century that emphasized imagination, contemplation and
a certain freedom of thinking -- it was assumed to be the most important because it was most similar to its readers own interests and ideals. Frye wrote that: "No
other play has explored the paradoxes of action and thinking about action so deeply" and it can easily be argued that the intelligentsia of the 19th and early 20th century
Western world would have seen themselves as also being the most modern examples of exploring such paradoxical ways of thinking and acting. Tragedy in the Context of Romanticism It is
important to understand that the great Romantic writers, poets, and dramatists of the 19th century emphasized emotion and imagination and the impact of both on the individual. Certainly, Hamlet offers
insight to a man who is torn by a number of powerful emotions but who also thinks about the fact that he is torn apart by such feelings. However,
it should also be noted that as the battle between "the dark princes" emotions, thinking, and conscience take place, he is repeatedly dealing with the imaginary world -- his fathers
ghost, his feigned or real insanity, his paranoia regarding betrayal -- and the imaginary world and his reaction to it takes precedence over any measure of reason or sensibility. The
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