Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Tuesday, September 26 "to be or not" Hamlet rejects Ophelia



RL.11-12.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with more than one meaning or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful.

RL.11-12.1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

Coming up: vocabulary quiz Hamlet 3 Wednesday / tomorrow
                  PSAT information from counselors on Thursday

In class: vocabulary review Hamlet 3  another copy below if you lost yours.
             If you are following along in the text, please look at 3.1.56 for the soliloquy and then 3.1.90 for the scene between Hamlet and Ophelia.
              "To Be or Not to Be Soliloquy. (class handout / copy below)to be or not to be soliloquy  through 2:58; then Ophelia returning Hamlet's remembrances. 
Ophelia returns Hamlet's remembrances.3.1.90

Note how Polonius and King Claudius watch

1. How does Hamlet behave when Ophelia gives back his love letters?

2. What is indicated by these words of Ophelia?  Consider her state of mind. (theme: women)

OPHELIA
O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!
The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword;
The expectancy and rose of the fair state,
The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,
That suck'd the honey of his music vows,
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh;
That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth
Blasted with ecstasy: O, woe is me,
To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
(3.1.153-164.)

3. What is King Claudius' conclusion as to Hamlet's behavior?
(3.1.165-170)


4. Explain these words of King Claudius: "Madness in great ones must not unwatched go" (190).


Name _____________________________-

3.1.56-88

You will find Hamlet’s third soliloquy chunked
below, where he makes arguments against
“self-slaughter”. In the corresponding numerical section, summarize in your own words Hamlet’s thoughts.

To be, or not to be- that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them.
1.
To die- to sleep-
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd.
2.
To die- to sleep.
To sleep- perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub!
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause.
3.
Who would these fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death-
The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns- puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
4.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action
5.

Hamlet vocabulary 3 by William Shakespeare Vocabulary Quiz Wednesday, September 27

The quiz will be 10 matching and 10 contextual sentences


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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