Father/Son Relationships by James Guilardi https://padlet.com/22005286_3/g8fggxxxvrx368t8 Hamlet en-us 2020-11-19 17:10:06 UTC 2025-10-21 16:28:58 UTC hello@padlet.com Denotations/ Connotations 22005286_3 https://padlet.com/22005286_3/g8fggxxxvrx368t8/wish/950317792 Denotation: Father son relationship meaning: A father son relationship is basically just the bond and love between a father and son. How much they love, care, and need each other.
Connotation: A father son relationship can simply be defined as a bond or connection between the father and son, but a father/son relationship can be more complicated than a mother/son. While sons usually connect with their mom right away, it can be difficult for a dad to express his love to his son. Their relationship grows over time and sons need their father’s love. Their bond and connection can be stronger than any relationship.
Device Meaning: This device impacts storylines and usual is a main idea throughout a story, like in Hamlet. It is used to impact the plot and show how different relationships impact the plot. In Hamlet, the father and son relationship obviously impacts the plot greatly because the death of Hamlet's father causes him to go mad.
How is it represented in the text: Hamlet and King Hamlet’s relationship in this book I would say is controlling. Although King Hamlet is dead, he is still basically controlling Hamlet and telling what to do and this happened. Hamlet wants to avenge his dead so bad that it has taken over his sanity and he is going out of control. He is trying so hard to make his dad happy that he is forgetting about his own joy and healthiness. The same goes for Laertes and his father that is killed by Hamlet. Ophelia and Laertes both go mad which causes Ophelia to die and Laertes also seeks revenge on Hamlet.

Another theme relative to the father/son relationship would be revenge. Hamlet wants to avenge King Hamlet after what Claudius did to him. He is going crazy and trying to prove Claudius' guilt.

Another example of this is Hamlet killing Laertes' father. He seeks revenge on Hamlet which draws him and his sister Ophelia mad.

Father/Son relationships in other Shakespearean Texts: This is also present in Shakespearean text, King Henry IV. Hal is expected to step up as king after his father’s death and wants to avenge his death. It's a big theme in both plays of sons wanting to meet their father’s expectations and wanting to possess the qualities that their respected father’s had. ]]> 2020-11-22 20:12:01 UTC https://padlet.com/22005286_3/g8fggxxxvrx368t8/wish/950317792 Controlling/Manipulative Father 22005286_3 https://padlet.com/22005286_3/g8fggxxxvrx368t8/wish/950321223 2020-11-22 20:14:22 UTC https://padlet.com/22005286_3/g8fggxxxvrx368t8/wish/950321223 Father/Son Relationships in other Shakespearean Texts: 22005286_3 https://padlet.com/22005286_3/g8fggxxxvrx368t8/wish/950325937 2020-11-22 20:17:41 UTC https://padlet.com/22005286_3/g8fggxxxvrx368t8/wish/950325937 Scholarly Article 1 22005286_3 https://padlet.com/22005286_3/g8fggxxxvrx368t8/wish/950326952 http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=4&sid=d2982d90-184b-48fb-bbd3-d6b49e356bc9%40sdc-v-sessmgr02&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=136963543&db=aph

This article is about the impact a father can have on their son’s life. It's like a cause and effect of what the father does and how it affects the son.

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This article is a P.O.V of an author whose dad died from cancer. In the article readers get to see what it was like for him and how it affected his life. 

]]> 2020-11-22 20:19:23 UTC https://padlet.com/22005286_3/g8fggxxxvrx368t8/wish/950328291 Father Son Relationship 22005286_3 https://padlet.com/22005286_3/g8fggxxxvrx368t8/wish/950334147 2020-11-22 20:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/22005286_3/g8fggxxxvrx368t8/wish/950334147 22005286_3 https://padlet.com/22005286_3/g8fggxxxvrx368t8/wish/950335547 2020-11-22 20:24:21 UTC https://padlet.com/22005286_3/g8fggxxxvrx368t8/wish/950335547 Direct Quotes 220052771_2 https://padlet.com/22005286_3/g8fggxxxvrx368t8/wish/950440457 Quote 1: "Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damnèd Dane, drink off this potion" (Act V. Scene II. 327-328)
relevance: Revenge → Hamlet was told by his ghost dad in Act I to kill King Claudius and finally in Act V, he proceeded to murder him after the death of his mother. Hamlet was unable to overcome his mourning from his father’s death, which draws Hamlet to avenge his father’s death. Hamlet waited until his mother died because of his repressed desires to sleep with his mother. Claudius is a representation of that, so killing Claudius would be killing a part of himself.

Quote 2: "No traveller returns"  (Act III. Scene I.  25)
relevance:  Illusion vs Reality→ In Hamlet's most famous soliloquy, "To be or Not to Be", he addresses the idea of his ghostly father and if he is purely just imagining his father or he had really spoke to him. This relates back to the idea of Hamlet's sanity. This draws back to the death of his father which causes Hamlet to go mad.

Quote 3: "...I a noble father lost, A sister driven into desp'rate terms... But my revenge will come" (Act IV. Scene VII.  26-30)
relevance: Loyalty to family → Laertes is speaking in this quote to King Claudius who helps him plot ideas to kill Hamlet. Laertes seeks revenge on Hamlet for killing his father since they were very close. Laertes has gone mad along with his sister. The same family loyalty comes earlier in the play with Hamlet seeking revenge for his father who was killed by King Claudius.
]]> 2020-11-22 21:42:03 UTC https://padlet.com/22005286_3/g8fggxxxvrx368t8/wish/950440457 Symbol, Dramatic Element, and Theme 220052771_2 https://padlet.com/22005286_3/g8fggxxxvrx368t8/wish/950442658 Symbol
- Death → Hamlet's father's death driving Hamlet mad and same thing for Laertes. Sanity is a large motif throughout the play which coincides with the main father/son relationships in the play.
- Upholding family honor→ Hamlet wants to uphold his fathers honor, and kill King Claudius to seek revenge for Claudius killing his father. Same goes for Laertes, he wants to kill Hamlet to seek revenge for Hamlet killing his father.
Dramatic element
- After life/Hamlet’s Soliloquy →  Dramatic irony and tension rise as we watched Claudius in Act III and Hamlet’s dad’s ghost in the soliloquy because Hamlet doesn’t know what is real. Hamlet goes on in his soliloquy about the after life and him speaking to his fathers ghost. He is unsure if he has gone mad or if he is truly speaking to his ghost father.
Theme
- Loss of sanity → The loss of a family member is difficult to cope with, and in this play it draws people to go insane. It correlates to the idea of illusion vs. reality because Hamlet is unsure if who he is speaking to si truly his father or if he is just insane.

]]> 2020-11-22 21:43:51 UTC https://padlet.com/22005286_3/g8fggxxxvrx368t8/wish/950442658 Contextual Relevance 220052771_2 https://padlet.com/22005286_3/g8fggxxxvrx368t8/wish/950772814 - Hamlet was written out of tension between Renaissance humanism and existentialism
- Existential was a free thinking and emphasized the limitations of human understanding while Renaissance humanism wanted to use question and reasoning to understand how to act
- Book questioned religion and relationships → This relates to the play because Hamlet questions his mother moving past his deceased father extremely quickly. Hamlet then sides with his father who wishes to kill Claudius to seek revenge for his father. He has a free thinking which is existentialism. 
-Since Hamlet and bloodline has died, who will rule? → this further demonstrates the importance of father/son relationships.]]> 2020-11-23 02:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/22005286_3/g8fggxxxvrx368t8/wish/950772814