Wednesday, October 25 Ophelia's death.

Las Meninas- note dwarf in the Spanish royal court.

vanitas

Learning Targets: 

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.

I can demonstrate my familiarity with the text by responding to prompts, solidifying my understanding of the material. 

In class: vocabulary quiz; handout with new vocabulary - Hamlet 6 (copy below)
               at Ophelia's grave: ophelia's grave (5:21)

Discussion questions:
                1. Laertes asks of the priest: "What ceremony else?" (5.1.210). According to the priest, why is there no more formal ceremony for Ophelia's burial?
 His reply: 

Her obsequies have been as far enlarged
	As we have warranty: her death was doubtful;
	And, but that great command o'ersways the order,
	She should in ground unsanctified have lodg'd
	Till the last trumpet: for charitable prayers,
	Shards, flints and pebbles should be thrown on her;
	Yet here she is allow'd her virgin crants,
	Her maiden strewments and the bringing home
	Of bell and burial.

2. What does Hamlet publicly declare at Ophelia's gravesite?  is he sincere?

3. The scene ends with the following lines from Hamlet addressed to Laertes. What does he mean? Note especially the last line, as it's still often quoted.

HAMLET:	Hear you, sir;
	What is the reason that you use me thus?
	I loved you ever: but it is no matter;
	Let Hercules himself do what he may,
	The cat will mew and dog will have his day.

Hamlet vocabulary 6   quiz on Wednesday, November 1

1.   To abhor (verb)- to find repugnant, very distasteful

2.   gibe (noun)- an aggressive remark

3.   imperious (adjective)- having or showing superiority

4.   to profane (verb)- to violate a sacred place, person or language

5.   requiem (noun)- song or hymn as a memorial for a dead person

6.   churlish (adjective)- having a bad disposition

7.   amity (noun)- friendship  (note the opposite is enmity!)

8.   perdition (noun)- the place or state that one suffers eternal punishment

9.   umbrage (noun)- a feeling of anger caused by feeling offended

10.                     infallible (adjective)- incapable of failure