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A paper which looks at the way semiotic signs, such as the skull and the ghost, are used in Shakespeare's Hamlet, and the importance of understanding the historical and cultural context of such signs.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JL5_JLsemiot.rtf
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In order to consider a semiotic interpretation of elements in Hamlet, it would be
useful to look first at the way in which semiotics operates in relation to language, and especially to elements in the play, such as the skull, which might be considered
to have meanings on a number of different levels for both an Elizabethan and a modern audience.
It might be helpful for the student to think about what
the study of semiotics involves, and how in can be applied to historical texts. It could be said that in summary, semiotics is concerned with what is represented, how
it is represented, and the interpretations of the representation. The student could look at the different ways in which objects are labelled, not only in different languages, but in different
cultures or historical periods which use the same language.
Taking the skull, for example: it is obvious that the term skull refers to a particular object, or a group of objects, which have certain physical characteristics in
common. The skull of a human being is very different from that of a crocodile, or a sheep, but they all share certain characteristics (colour, texture, the material they are
made of, the presence of jaws and teeth, and so on) which allow us to categorise all such items as skulls.
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