INDEX: Character Arcs: Labors of Gratitude & Regret in Hamlet (Aug. - Dec. 2019)

INDEX: Character Arcs: Labors of Gratitude & Regret in Hamlet (Aug. - Dec. 2019)

In the second half of 2019, I did a series in which I considered character arcs in Hamlet, using ideas adapted from a Lewis Hyde chapter on “The Labor of Gratitude,” expanding this to include also labors of regret.

Posts in this series:

Part 1: Gifts & Labors of Gratitude in Hansel & Gretel - (before Hamlet) - 8/12/19
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/08/lewis-hyde-on-labor-of-gratitude.html

Part 2: Hamlet's Descent & Arc Toward Mercy (Labors of Gratitude and Regret) - 8/19/19
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/08/labors-of-gratitude-and-regret-in-hamlet.html

Part 3: Polonius' Labor of Regret - 8/26/19
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/08/polonius-his-labor-of-regret.html

Part 4: Into Dad's Circle of Fear & Flattery: Laertes' Labors of Gratitude & Regret, 1.2 - 9/3/19
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/09/laertes-dynamics-of-gratitude-regret-12.html

Part 5: Fear & Hypocrisy: Laertes’ Labors of Gratitude & Regret, 1.3 - 9/9/19
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/09/laertes-labors-of-gratitude-regret13.html

Part 6: Fearsome, Flattered, Glimpsing Transformation, 4.5 (Labors of Gratitude & Regret) - 9/17/19
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/09/laertes-labors-gratitude-regret45.html

Part 7: Toxic Masculinity Distracts While Ophelia Drowns, 4.7 (Labors of Gratitude & Regret)  - 9/24/19
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/09/toxic-masculinity-distracts-while-ophelia-drowns.html

Part 8: Laertes & Hamlet Fight at Ophelia’s Grave, 5.1(Labors of Gratitude & Regret) - 10/01/19
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/09/laertes-hamlet-fight-at-ophelias-grave.html

Part 9: Gertrude as Recipient & Source of Gifts (Labors of Gratitude & Regret) - 10/8/19
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/10/gertrude-as-recipient-giver-of-gifts.html

Part 10: Laertes Turns, but Only When Facing Death, 5.2 (Labors of Gratitude & Regret) - 10/15/19
https://www.blogger.com/2019/10/laertes-turns-only-facing-death.html

Part 11: Does Hamlet & Ophelia’s Love Change Them? (Labors of Gratitude & Regret) - 10/21/19
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/10/does-hamlet-ophelias-love-change-them.html

Part 12: Claudius Resists Gift-Dynamics & Grace (Labors of Gratitude & Regret ) - 10/29/19
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/10/claudius-manipulates-gift-dynamics.html

Part 13: Does Fortinbras Benefit from Gratitude or Regret (or is he more a cipher for James VI & I)? - 11/05/19
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/11/does-fortinbras-benefit-from-gratitude.html

Part 14: Horatio's Gift-Dynamics & Christ-Figures Shifting Ground in Hamlet 1.1 - 11/19/19
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/11/horatios-gift-dynamics-christ-figures.html

Part 15: Hamlet & Horatio's Friendship: Mutual, Reciprocal, Transformative, Free - 11/26/19
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/11/hamlet-horatios-friendship-mutual.html

Part 16: Why Gift-Dynamics Matter for Hamlet & the Bible - 12/03/19
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/12/why-gift-dynamics-matter-hamlet-bible.html

ALSO SEE:
SAA Seminar: “Shakespeare & the Mind: Cognition, Emotion, Affect" - June 16, 2020 https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2020/06/saa-sem-shax-mind-cognition-affect.html

LOVE & FEAR & YODA & HAMLET - May 27, 2019
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/05/love-fear-yoda-hamlet.html


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