Spectre of nature : the unnatural, spectrality and madness in Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear

Name: Sutheya Intarakaset

keyword: The Unnatural

; Ambivalence of nature

; Specters of nature

; Madness

Abstract: Concentrating on the connection between “nature” and “madness” in three Shakespeare’s tragedies – Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear, this thesis examines the unnatural and how it contributes to the development of the characters’ madness. From transgressive actions such as murder and betrayal to the supernatural beings and the natural settings, the various forms of the unnatural permit an intricate interlacement of those that are similarly categorized as contrary to the natural – the “unnatural”, the “natural”, and the “supernatural”. As it displays how different ideas and meanings of “nature” are at play when its contraries are mentioned, this interlacement unveils the latent ambivalence of “nature” from which the “specters of nature” emerge. Forced to acknowledge the complex ambivalence of “nature”, the characters’ encounters with the “specters of nature” throw them into confusion since their previous worldviews are challenged. Still, the characters are unable to correctly recognize that ambivalence and accept their own limitations as human beings which prevent them from doing so. Haunted, these characters are engulfed in doubts, anxiety and fear. Finding themselves in hopeless situations, they descend into madness which leads them to their tragic ends

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Address: BANGKOK

Email: preserv@tu.ac.th

Name: Rawitawan Sophonpanich

Role: advisor

Created: 2022

Modified: 2024-01-30

Issued: 2024-01-30

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DOI: 10.14457/TU.the.2022.1199

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DegreeName: Master of Arts

Level: Master's Degree

Descipline: English Language and Literature

Grantor: Thammasat University

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