# What do Moretti's Hamlet networks show about protagonist centrality, clustering, weak-tie connectors and node-removal experiments, and which parts transfer to checking an ensemble outline?

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Moretti builds speech-act networks of Hamlet and treats the protagonist as the node nearest all others (mean distance 1.45). Removing nodes is his experiment: without Hamlet the graph nearly splits into court and "beyond"; removing Horatio, though slightly less central by distance than Claudius, fragments the rest because he sits in a low-clustering region and links the Ghost/Fortinbras side to the court. Claudius sits in a dense cluster and his removal changes little. Moretti flags the limits (unweighted, undirected, hand drawn, a few plays) and hedges his Horatio reading. For ensemble outlines the transferable idea is a cut-vertex / removal test; whether it indicates a defect is a judgment, since Horatio is both structurally key and, in Moretti's words, without motivation.

Moretti builds speech-act networks of Hamlet and treats the protagonist as the node nearest all others (mean distance 1.45). Removing nodes is his experiment: without Hamlet the graph nearly splits into court and "beyond"; removing Horatio, though slightly less central by distance than Claudius, fragments the rest because he sits in a low-clustering region and links the Ghost/Fortinbras side to the court. Claudius sits in a dense cluster and his removal changes little. Moretti flags the limits (unweighted, undirected, hand drawn, a few plays) and hedges his Horatio reading. For ensemble outlines the transferable idea is a cut-vertex / removal test; whether it indicates a defect is a judgment, since Horatio is both structurally key and, in Moretti's words, without motivation.

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet2.pdf",
      "note": "Hamlet network"
    }
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}
```

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- [sourced_fact] Moretti builds speech-act networks of Hamlet and treats the protagonist as the node nearest all others (mean distance 1.45). Removing nodes is his experiment: without Hamlet the graph nearly splits into court and "beyond"; removing Horatio, though slightly less central by distance than Claudius, fragments the rest because he sits in a low-clustering region and links the Ghost/Fortinbras side to the court. Claudius sits in a dense cluster and his removal changes little. Moretti flags the limits (unweighted, undirected, hand drawn, a few plays) and hedges his Horatio reading. For ensemble outlines the transferable idea is a cut-vertex / removal test; whether it indicates a defect is a judgment, since Horatio is both structurally key and, in Moretti's words, without motivation. · locator: Hamlet network · source: https://litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet2.pdf

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