Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Notes on Hamlet

Act 2:

2.1

  • Polonius tells Reynaldo to spy on Laertes. Ophelia reveals Hamlet visited her and acted strange.
  • Tells Reynaldo to say Laertes does bad things to see if people agree or disagree.


2.2

  • King asks Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to watch Hamlet and see what’s up with him. Norway king states that they will not attack and asks if his troops can come through Denmark. Polonius says Hamlet is crazy because of his Daughter rejected love. Make plan to put Hamlet and Ophelia together. Hamlet tells Rosencrantz and Guildenstern he is no mad for love. The players come in. Hamlet know them, speaks with them.
  • Hamlet recites speech showing his love of theater and his intelligence.
  • Story of Priam’s death and Huckaback sadness
  • Hamlet [speech] second soliloquy “Ay, so, goodbye to you – Now I am alone. O, what a rouge and peasant slave am I” Tells about how he feels he has failed the Ghost, and does not know if the Ghost is from heaven or hell. Compares himself to player and how emotional player seems and how unemotional Hamlet seems. Makes a plan to make the King watch a play acting out the situation of the murder to see if the king is guilty.

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