Including critics in your Hamlet essays? (1 Viewer)

[s-tressed]

How many of you are doing this? Is it an important part that would limit me from getting a band 6?

 

[BLIT2014]

No, as Module B is primarily meant to be a personal response

 

[Machiavelli1]

I suggest including 1, or maybe reference critics ideas that have guided you in shaping your own personal response

 

[Hi there444]

No, as Module B is primarily meant to be a personal response

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[simplyinsanity]

You are expected to make some references to how critics shaped your personal response.

For example: Drawing upon [a Critic's] interpretation of this scene, it can be concluded that....

Or: Although a critic argued [blah], Shakespeare is actually saying [something else]

 

[skillstriker]

The markers are looking for a personal response to the play. SO critic quotes aren't necessary to achieve full marks. HOWEVER, both my teacher and tutor recommended that we include 1-2 quotes from a well renowned critic e.g. Coleridge, TS Eliot, Hazlitt, Nietzsche etc. For instance, you could say "I agree with Coleridge's interpretation that..." or "I disagree with Freud's psychoanalytic interpretation and instead believe that..." It shows you've done a bit of extra research as well.

 

[s-tressed]

Alright thanks, i'll keep that in mind.