1. Pick a passage from Act I of Hamlet. Write it down. Practice citing it (Ham.Act.Scene.Line Numbers). Why did you pick this passage? What do you think it's trying to say?
2. The ghost is Hamlet plays a crucial role in setting events in motion? Are you a Horatio(skeptic of ghosts) or a Marcellus(believer in ghosts)? Why or why not?
3. We get to know characters via a variety of channels: what they do, what they say, what they think, how they're described, and what others say/think about them. Do a character analysis of one of the following characters: Hamlet, Claudius, Horatio, Gertrude Find a specific passage for each of the following.
What They Say/Think:
Passage:
What They Do:
Passage:
How They're Described:
Passage:
What Other Characters Say/Think About Them:
Passsage:
Based on all of the textual evidence, what is your overall opinion about this character?
4. Put yourself in Hamlet's position, what would would do with the news from the ghost? Do you trust the ghost's word or do you need better evidence? Would you tell anyone else what the ghost said to you or would you keep it a secret?
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3 comments:
1.Passage line 57. Because you told me to pick this passage. Its acknowledging that a ghost is present.
2. Yes. I'm a Horatio, because I think that there are only angles and demons that show themselves to us.
3. Hamlet.What they think:he is depressed.
Passage:79-89
How they're described: commendable in nature
passage:90
What others say/think about them:most immediate to our throne, and with no less nobility of love than that which dearest father bears his son do i impart toward you.
passage 112-115
the overall character is emotional, and well liked.
I wouldn't kill anyone if a ghost tells me. I would need better evidence. I would keep it secret because i might sound loony.
In the first scene there was a passage that talked about how the new king Claudius married his sister in law right after his brother died. I picked this passage because is shows the betrayal that will occur throughout the play.
2. I am a Horatio for the most part because i do not believe in ghosts because i dont think that your spirit stays on earth when you die.
3. Horatio-He is a very well learned man who is very skeptic of ghosts and he has to see it for himself to believe it.
passage 1.
He is described as a very scholarly man who dresses well and looks nice.
Passage 2.
Everyone thinks that he is very smart.
passage 2
I think that the character of horatio is very interesting because he will find out that the ghost is real because he sees it with his own eyes to i am excited to see what happens with him in other scenes.
I would want to see the ghost for myself and yes i would listen to the ghost if it looked like it was my father and i would not tell anyone else about it.
1. Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 14-17
Ghost: "I am thy father's spirit, doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, and for the day confined to fast in fires, till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purged away."
I picked this passage because we are finally introduced to Hamlet's father. The King of Denmark is try to say that he left the Earth without being forgiven of his sins and that until all of his sins are forgiven, he has to stay in Purgatory.
2. I do believe in ghosts and they are existent, so I would call myself a Marcellus.
3. Hamlet
What they Say/Think: Hamlet despise his uncle/father.
Passage- King Claudius: "Take thy fair hour, Laertes. Time be thine, and thy best graces spend it at thy will! But now, my cousin hamlet, and my son,--"
Hamlet: "A little more than kin, and less than kind!"
Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2, Lines 64-67
What They Do: He follows the ghost of his father when it beckons him.
Passage- Hamlet: "My fate cries out, and makes each petty artery in this body as hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve. (Ghost beckons). Still am I call'd. Unhand me, gentlemen. by heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me. I say, away! Go on. I'll follow thee."
Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 90-95
How They're Described: He is depicted as a prince who has turned crazy after receiving news from the ghost of his father that his uncle/father killed him. He is dressing uncivilized and is developing some mental problems.
Passage- Ophelia: "My lord, as I was sewing in my closet, Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced, No hat upon his head, his stockings fouled, ungartered, and down-gyved to his ankle; Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, and with a look so piteous in purport as if he had been loosed out of hell to speak of horrors, he comes before me."
Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 1, Lines 87-94
What Other Say/Think About Them: Polonius and Laertes dislike Hamlet want Ophelia to discontinue her relationship with him immediately.
Passage- Polonius: "Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know, When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows. These blazes, daughter, giving more light than heat, extinct in both even in their promise, as it is a-making, you must not take for fire. Form this time be something scanter of your maiden presence. Set your entreatments at a higher rate than a command to parley. For Lord hamlet, believe so much in him, that he is young, and with a larger tether may he walk than may be given you. In few, Ophelia, do not believe his vows; for they are brokers, not of that dye which their investments show, but mere implorators of unholy suits, breathing like sanctified and pious bonds, the better to beguile. this is for all: I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth Have you so slander any moment leisure as to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet. Look to't, I charge you. Come your ways."
Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3, Lines 122-142
4. I would listen to what the ghost has to say and try to understand why he is saying these things. I would take his word with a grain of salt. I might tell one person, I wouldn't know what to do in that situation.
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