Coming up: Hamlet 3 vocabulary review on Tuesday, vocabulary quiz Wednesday; counselors here on Thursday for PSAT information
Today in class: review of themes in preparation for essay
meeting Hamlet's school friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Please take out your notebooks and your Hamlet text.
REVIEW OF THE MATERIAL FROM FRIDAY
Make sure you have the following list of themes that we are seeing be developed in the play.
1.corruption
2. religion provides no answers: what looks good could be evil.
3. decisive action.
4. filial responsibility
5. appearance vs. reality
5. appearance vs. reality
6. Women
Below is the link to Act 2.2 that we watched on Friday. If you have not done so, please watch.
Hamlet Act 2.2 review of Friday's questions. Please correct / write in the correct responses.
Polonius sets a spy on Laertes; Ophelia tells Polonius what Hamlet has done.
1. Why does Polonius wish Renaldo to use “slips [such] as gaming…or drinking, fencing and quarrelling,” in other words a “bait of falsehood?” use text (2.1.64-66)
Polonius believes that he will "by indiscretions find directions out" (2.2.66)
2. According to Ophelia, how was Hamlet dressed when he entered her sewing closet?
Use text (2.1.77-83)
Hamlet had "his doublet all unbraced,/ No hat upon his head, his stockings fouled, / Ungartered, and down gyved to his ankle (2.1.77-80).
3. What does Polonius think is the reason behind Hamlet’s behavior?
Use text (2.1.102).
He thinks "This is the very ecstasy of love"(2.1.102).
4. Look at your themes list. Select one theme and give two examples of how you see this being developed.
Development of themes in Act 1.1.corruption
a. Claudius' killing King Hamlet 1:5
b. how the ghost is attired (1.1)
c. Horatio alludes to occurrences in ancient Rome. (1.1)
d. Claudius' marrying Gertrude (1.2); Ghost speaks: 1:5
e. Hamlet's observation after he learns that Horatio has seen his father: 1.2
f. Marcellus to Horatio: 1.4
g. Hamlet's observations on the castle partying: 1.4
h. Hamlet's observations on villains: 1.5
2. religion provides no answers: what looks good could be evil.
a. Hamlet's soliloquy: 1.2
b. Marcellus to Horatio 1.1
c. Ghost speaks of his "prison house":1.5
3. decisive action.
a. Hamlet's soliloquy: 1.2
b. Hamlet insists upon following his father, despite Horatio's protestations: 1:4
c. Hamlet swears revenge 1:5
4. filial responsibility .
a.Gertrude's observations: 1.2; b. Claudius' observations: 1.2
c. Ghost King Hamlet manipulating his son to avenge his death: 1:55.
appearance vs. reality
appearance vs. reality
a. Marcellus's / Bernado's comments on seeing the ghost (1.1)
b. Hamlet on his own behavior: 1.2
c. Hamlet's soliloquy: 1.2
d. Hamlet upon first seeing his ghost father: 1.4
6. Role of women
a. King Claudius: 1.2
b. Hamlet soliloquy: 1.2
C. Laertes to Ophelia: 1.3
D. Ophelia to Laertes: 1.3
E. Polonius to Ophelia: 1.3
F. Ophelia to Polonius: 1.3
G. Ghost King Hamlet on Gertrude: 1.5
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Meeting Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Act 2, scene 2 Act 2, scene 2 Rosencrantz, Guildenstern and Hamlet's lunacy
Take note of the following:
- King Claudius has sent for these two men
- King Claudius explains that Hamlet has had a "transformation: so called it. /Sith not th' exterior nor the inward man / Resembles that it was"(2.2.5-7). (Remember also Polonius has recently sent Fernando to spy on his son Laertes.)
- King Claudius also wants them to spy (more corruption?)(Remember also Polonius has recently sent Fernando to spy on his son Laertes.)
- Is Queen Gertrude alluding to a bribe? (corruption)
- Polonius tells King Claudius that he has found the cause of Hamlet's "lunacy".
- The ambassadors return from Norway to say that Young Fortinbras will not attack Denmark, but instead will go after Poland.
- Note the irony when Polonius says: "Brevity is the soul of wit "(2.2.90).
- What does Gertrude mean when she says: "More matter with less art" (2.2.95).
- According to Polonius, Hamlet is "mad" because he is in love with Ophelia, who has rejected him. (Note that Ophelia has obediently given her father a note from Hamlet - (theme: filial responsibility, women. )
- Polonius has told Ophelia to stop this "hot love on the wing" (2.2.133).
- Polonius hatches a plan to see if Hamlet is really in love with Ophelia. He and King Claudius will hide behind the arras (learn, means heavy curtain) and spy (theme corruption) as Ophelia talks with Hamlet.
- Gertrude agrees to their plan (theme-women)
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- Vocabulary 3 Hamlet quiz on Wednesday, September 25
- 1. calamity- (noun) a great misfortune or disaster
2. heir- (noun) a person who inherits or has right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter’s death.
3. To confine- (verb) to shut or keep in
4. commencement- (noun) beginning, start
5. hypocrite- (noun) a person who pretends to have virtues, principles
6. virtue- (noun) goodness
7. to deprive-(verb) took away
8. to harrow-(verb) distresses the mind or feelings
9. imminent- (adjective) likely to occur at any moment
10. incentive- (noun) something that encourages a person to do something or to work harder
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