SH5 Characters
One of the "three musketeers" who dies of Gangrene
Roland Weary
Gertrude
SH5: Color repetition used to describe feet
Blue and Ivory
Archetypal: A figure, larger than life, whose search for self-identity and/or self fulfillment results in his own destruction
Martyr
Freudian: The moral part of ones unconscious psyche
Superego
Billy's mate on Tralfamadore
Montana Wildhack
Take Hamlet and a sealed letter to England
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
The people who bring Hamlet back to Denmark after he sets sail to England
Pirates
Feminist: A type of power that involves income or finance
Economic power
Archetypal: A color representing passion, anger, violence
Red
Billy's wife
Valencia Merble
A meddler who is stabbed through a tapestry by Hamlet
Polonius
The image used to describe how the Tralfamadorians view time
Mountain Range
Freudian: The part of the conscious psyche that mediates between the id and superego
Ego
Formalism: Links/references from the text to other literary/historical texts
Allusions
Author of science fiction that Billy admires
Kilgore Trout
The court servant who invites Hamlet to the duel with Laertes
Osric
Kills Hamlet with a poisoned sword
Laertes
Archetypal: The plot revolving around the loss of innocence or a devolution from a paradisiacal life/viewpoint to a tainted life/viewpoint.
The Fall
Feminist: A term to describe when one degrades someone to the status of an object/symbol
Objectification
Continually states "This ain't so bad"
A dead court jester whose skull Hamlet examines
Yorick
War that is ongoing when SH5 was written
Vietnam War
Formalism: The subtle, commonly accepted meanings of words; different than denotation
Connotation
Formalism: A seemingly self-contradictory statement that points out a “truth” about human nature/the world/life
Paradox