Friday, October 3 Hamlet 2 vocabulary test. analysis of Hamlet's soliloquy and Claudius' speech

Hamlet and Ophelia
In class: 1) Hamlet vocabulary test 2
When you have finished, please bring it up to me. I have the grades open.
2) summary of Act I. material below / we'll review as a class.
3) Two handouts: Claudius' speech to Hamlet AND Hamlet's soliloquy. This is classwork. You may work with a partner,if you so choose. 
4) These are two graded classroom participation assignments, one of which must be completed in class, whilst the other may be finished at home, if you need the extra time. This will be due at the beginning of class on Monday. (class handout / copy below)
5. Ms. Bowering will be taking over for the next 4 weeks. I will, however, be in the classroom. The expectation is that everyone continue with same class policies, as you would in any other classroom. 

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Summary for Act I (http://absoluteshakespeare.com/guides/hamlet/summary/hamlet_summary.htm)

1. Shakespeare's longest play and the play responsible for the immortal lines "To be or not to be: that is the question:" and the advise "to thine own self be true," begins in Denmark with the news that King Hamlet of Denmark has recently died. 2. Denmark is now in a state of high alert and preparing for possible war with Young Fortinbras of Norway. A ghost resembling the late King Hamlet is spotted on a platform before Elsinore Castle in Denmark. King Claudius, who now rules Denmark, has taken King Hamlet's wife, Queen Gertrude as his new wife and Queen of Denmark. 3. King Claudius fearing Young Fortinbras of Norway may invade, has sent ambassadors to Norway to urge the King of Norway to restrain Young Fortinbras.  4. Young Hamlet distrusts King Claudius. The King and Queen do not understand why Hamlet still mourns his father's death over two months ago. In his first soliloquy, Hamlet explains that he does not like his mother marrying the next King of Denmark so quickly within a month of his father's death. 5. Laertes, the son of Lord Chamberlain Polonius, gives his sister Ophelia some brotherly advice. He warns Ophelia not to fall in love with Young Hamlet; she will only be hurt.  6. Polonius tells his daughter Ophelia not to return Hamlet's affections for her since he fears Hamlet is only using her... Hamlet meets the Ghost of his father, King Hamlet and follows it to learn more. 7. Hamlet learns from King Hamlet's Ghost that he was poisoned by King Claudius, the current ruler of Denmark. 8.  The Ghost tells Hamlet to avenge his death but not to punish Queen Gertrude for remarrying; it is not Hamlet's place and her conscience and heaven will judge her. 9.  Hamlet swears Horatio and Marcellus to silence over Hamlet meeting the Ghost. If you need assistance, I am available periods 6 and 7 today in 176. Ask for a pass.  Hamlet ActI.ii   responses to Claudius’s speech to Hamlet In Act I.ii, you are encountering the character of Hamlet for the first time through the eyes of his Uncle Claudius, who is now his stepfather.  Claudius reproaches Hamlet for his continued grief over the death of his father. Note their interactions and begin to think about the following ideas: gender roles, duty and mortality. KING CLAUDIUS      ' Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, To give these mourning duties to your father: But, you must know, your father lost a father; That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound            90 In filial obligation for some term To do obsequious sorrow: but to persever In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief; It shows a will most incorrect to heaven, A heart unfortified, a mind impatient, An understanding simple and unschool'd: For what we know must be and is as common As any the most vulgar thing to sense, Why should we in our peevish opposition      100 Take it to heart? Fie! 'tis a fault to heaven, A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, To reason most absurd: whose common theme Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried, From the first corse till he that died to-day, 'This must be so.' We pray you, throw to earth This unprevailing woe, and think of us As of a father: for let the world take note, You are the most immediate to our throne; And with no less nobility of love            110 Than that which dearest father bears his son, Do I impart toward you. For your intent In going back to school in Wittenberg, It is most retrograde to our desire: And we beseech you, bend you to remain 115 Here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye, Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son. Lines 90-92 1.     Who is Hamlet mourning? ___________________________ 2.     What are the two adjectives that the King uses to describe Hamlet’s Nature? 3.     What word used by Claudius gives evidence that that indicated the King’s shift to the main purpose of his speech? __________________________ Lines 93-96 4.     How does Claudius view the loss of Hamlet’s father? Use evidence from the text to support your position. _________________________________ ________________________________ _______________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________ _______________________________ __________________________________ _________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ Lines 96-101 5.      Condolement is  similar to condolences. What does it mean to send condolences? 6.      Paraphrase (put into your own words) lines 93-98. ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ 7.      What may be inferred about Claudius’s sense of grief and its relationship to duty? ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ 8.      What does Claudius mean when he calls Hamlet’s sense of grief unmanly? ________________________________________________________________________________________ 9.      Lines 102-105 Read the meanings for vulgar: characterized by ignorance of or lack of good breeding or taste                                       indecent, obscene or lewd                                       crude, coarse, unrefined                                       of, pertaining to ordinary people in society                                       current, popular or common How is the word vulgar used is line 103? Lines 107-110       10.  To what concept does Claudius appeal in lines 107-110?  ______________________________ 11.  How does Hamlet’s grief appear to Claudius? _________________________________________________________________________________________ 12.  What is the reasonable attitude towards death, according to Claudius? _______________________________________________________________________________________   O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed 135 His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God, God, How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on 't, ah fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature 140 Possess it merely. That is should come to this But two months dead nay, not so much, not two. So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven 145 Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on. And yet, within a month (Let me not think on 't; frailty, thy name is woman!) 150 A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears ñ why she, even she (O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourned longer!), married with my uncle, 155 My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules. Within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her gallËd eyes, 160 She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not, nor it cannot come to good. But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue. Accompanying 1. What does Hamlet wish for? 2. Who is the Everlasting? 3.What does the Everlasting say one cannot do? 4.What metaphor does Hamlet use to show his attitude toward the world? 5. How long ago did Hamlet's father dies? 6. Hamlet compared his father to Claudius as "Hyperion to a satyr."  Explain 7. With what phrase does Hamlet justify his mother's weakness in marrying Claudius with a month of her husband's death? 8. How does Hamlet intend to handle the marriage at this point? Incorporated text into your own response.