Monday, October 15, Polonius' body, Hamlet to England and back.

Learning standards: I can provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.

I can determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

Coming up: Hamlet 4 vocabulary quiz on Wednesday, October 19 (another copy below)
                    Due at the beginning of class now: graphic organizer for Act 3.4: Gertrude and Hamlet in her chamber (class handout on Friday; please remember that unless you have a legal absence, it is late. It is your responsibility to check the blog.)
In class: setting review; see map above
            Polonius' body; Hamlet to England and returned
                 graphic organizer for Act 3, scenes 1-4... class time; this will be collected at the start of class tomorrow, after which it is only worth 50 points.

After the body is "nosed", Hamlet is immediately sent to England, but in the next scene he has returned. In this contemporary version, Norway, who has permission to cross through Denmark in order to take some Polish land, has a modern military.

 Through the character of the captain,Shakespeare inserts a comment on the futility of war: 
  Captain: We go to gain a little patch of ground
      That hath in it no profit but the name.
      To pay five ducats, five. I would not farm it,
       Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole
       A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.

Hamlet: Why then the Polack will never defend it.
Captain: Yes, it is already garrisoned.
Hamlet: Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats
         Will not debate the question of this straw.
         This is th'imposthume* of much wealth and peace  *ulcer            That inward breaks,  and shows no cause without
         Why the man dies.
What follows is another soliloquy, where Hamlet berates himself once again. (Note that the soliloquy has been abbreviated on you graphic organizer.   Please take the rest of the class to work on this. You need your text!

Name ________________________ Act 4, scenes 1-4  graphic organizer for Hamlet

1.      King Claudius has sent Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to find Polonius’ body, but why must he must “not put the strong law on him” (4.3.1) To get to this line count up from line 5. (use text / quotations)

2.      Where does Hamlet tell King Claudius that Polonius’ body may be found? (weave into a sentence using the text from 4.3.33-37; your response should be substantial. Shop about the lines)

3.      What does King Claudius wish of his sending Hamlet to England?(Read text between  4.3.58-65). Weave your response into a sentence. Don't forget the quotation marks.

4. 100 point SUPER BONUS:  reread the lines from between 4.3.58-65, and tell me why would England do what King Claudius wants? To what historically is Claudius referring? Draw on your global knowledge. You do not need to use any textual evidence to answer this.

Something to consider about the following soliloquy: Hamlet finally accepts having to revenge his father’s death as a filial obligation.

How all occasions do inform against me,             And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,                If his chief good and market of his time                        Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.	5..      According to the text,what is the man’s purpose on earth? Weave some text into a sentence.
a beast, no more.                    Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,                      Looking before and after, gave us not             That capability and god-like reason             To fust in us unused	6.      According to the text, what has man that separates him from the beasts? Weave text into a sentence.
A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom             And ever three parts coward, I do not know                     Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;'              Sith I have cause and will and strength and means                To do't…	7.      What reasons does Hamlet give to explain why he must revenge his father?  Weave text into a sentence.

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Name ________________________________ Queen Gertrude and Hamlet Act 3.4

1.       How does Hamlet respond when his mother tells him: “Thou hast thy father much offended”? (3.4.10)

        Read the above line and respond as is exactly written in the text.

2.       What does Hamlet do when his mother the queen yells, “Help, ho!”?  (3.4.23) (Read stage directions)

Hamlet forces the queen to look at a picture of old King Hamlet and compare him to his brother King Claudius, Queen Gertrude’s new husband.     Read over Hamlet’s speech carefully.         

Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man: This was your husband. Look you now, what follows: Here is your husband; like a mildew'd ear, Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes? You cannot call it love; for at your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment: and what judgment Would step from this to this?...  What devil was't That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind? Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight, Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all, Or but a sickly part of one true sense Could not so mope. O shame! where is thy blush?

3.      From the text list 4 positive attributes of Old King Hamlet a. b. c. d. 4.       From the text, how does Hamlet describe King Claudius? 5.      Weaving text into a full sentence, what reason does Hamlet give for the impossibility that the Queen could possibly love King Claudius?

6.      How does Queen react to Hamlet’s speech? Paraphrase weaving in text from 3.4.95-96.

7.      The ghost of Old King Hamlet appears (or does he, for the queen never sees him). What does he tell Hamlet? Paraphrase 3.4.111-4.

8.      According to the ghost, who should punish the queen? This is not in this part of the play. But refers back to the initial encounter between Hamlet and his ghost father.  “Adieu, Adieu. Remember me.”

9.      What does the Queen think about Hamlet seeing his father? (weave in text from 3.4.138-40.

10.   Explain the following said by Hamlet to his mother: “I must be cruel only to be kind” (3.4.179)

Hamlet vocabulary 4  list; quiz on Wednesday, October 17 class handout / copy below

1. remembrance  (noun) –greeting or gift recalling friendship or affection                   
2.  origin  (noun)- the point or place where something begins                                
3. tedious  (adjective)- lacking in mental interest, boring                                
4.  to indict (verb)- to accuse of a crime                             
5.  to devise –(verb)- to create a plan                              
6.  to pester – (verb)-to annoy someone                             
7.  misogynistic-(adjective)-  having a derogatory attitude towards women                  
8.  torment –(noun) or to torment (verb)- having or creating an intense feeling of pain                            
9. lunacy       (noun)- a state of senseless behavior                              
10. potent (adjective)- having force or authority