Monday, October 6, 2014: Act II
Act II.i Summary and Act II.ii Analysis:
Hamlet's third soliloquy
Hamlet's third soliloquy
 |
| "The play's the thing /Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King." (last lines Act II)
The following students need to make up the vocabulary test from Friday, as well as the two Act I. handouts from Friday, one on Claudius's speech to Hamlet, the other Hamlet's first soliloquy.
Rahim, Clifton, Khiara, Starasia, Christian, Jameya, Katie W.
REMINDER: Vocab Quiz on THURSDAY this week! I will go over vocabulary with a slide show on Wednesday in class.
Where did we leave off with the end of Act I?
Act II begins:
Hamlet’s emotional turmoil over his father’s murder has left him in a visibly agitated condition, which some members of the court have interpreted as madness. Claudius and Gertrude, concerned for his health and welfare, summon two of Hamlet’s oldest friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, in the hopes that they can learn what is troubling him. Hamlet is immediately skeptical about their surprise visit - he doesn't believe they are just there to see him as friends.
Meanwhile, anxious to confirm his own suspicions regarding the source of Hamlet’s trouble, Polonius arranges a meeting between Ophelia and Hamlet, as he is convinced that Hamlet’s love for Ophelia is the cause of his suffering. When Polonius approaches Hamlet, Hamlet answers his questions although he believes Polonius to be a foolish old man. When a group of players arrives at the Danish court to entertain, Hamlet arranges for them to perform The Murder of Gonzago with the addition of lines Hamlet has written. What Hamlet hopes is to prove Claudius’s guilt in the murder by watching his reaction to the drama the players will stage. Watch: Hamlet's soliloquy - Part 6 (beginning through 4:22) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj8K_F_iPDQ Graphic organizer: Pair Activity Period 4: Khiara & Jenna - Question 1 Starasia & Rodney - Question 2 - Question 3 India & Kat - Question 4 Lauren, Jameya & Alyssa - Question 4 Arelle & Shealyn - Question 5 Starr & Manny - Question 5 Stephen & Clifton - Question 6 Samyra & Nate - Question 7 Katie & Allen - Question 8 Christian & Alexis - Question 9 James, Celeste & Momo - Question 10 Absent: Rahim & Xavier Period 8: Esteban & Alenna - Question 1 Joseph, Jayson & Faezhon - Question 2 Birnela & Tim - Question 3 Adrianna & Mahogany - Question 4 Zahra & Marc - Question 5 Demi & Tanisha - Question 6 Chaz & Rafael - Question 7 Emily & Xavier - Question 8 Seneca, Elaine & Kalvon - Question 9 Keion & Thomas - Question 10
Each pair is assigned 1 questions to focus on for tomorrow. Please focus on your assigned question first, and then move on to the rest! You have a responsibility to your classmates, because you will present your question to the class – be ready to share your answer and why it’s important!
Ay, so, God bye to you. –Now I am alone.
O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! (560)
Is it not monstrous that this player here,
But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
Could force his soul so to his own conceit
That from her working all his visage wanned,
Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect, (565)
A broken voice, and his whole function suiting
With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing!
For Hecuba!
What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her? What would he do (570)
Had he the motive and the cue for passion
That I have? He would drown the stage with tears
And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,
Make mad the guilty and appall the free,
Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed (575)
The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Yet I,
A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak,
Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,
And can say nothing. No, not for a king, (580)
Upon whose property and most dear life
A damned defeat was made. Am I a coward?
Who calls me villain? Breaks my pate across?
Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face?
Tweaks me by the nose? Gives me the lie i' th’ throat (585)
As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this?
Ha, 'swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be
But I am pigeon-liver'd and lack gall
To make oppression bitter, or ere this
I should ha’ fatted all the region kites (590)
With this slave's offal. Bloody, bawdy villain!
Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!
O, vengeance!
Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,
That I, the son of a dear father murdered, (595)
Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,
Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words,
And fall a-cursing, like a very drab,
A scullion! Fie upon't! foh! About, my brains.
Hum— (600)
I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at a play
Have by the very cunning of the scene
Been struck so to the soul that presently
They have proclaimed their malefactions.
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak (605)
With most miraculous organ. I'll have these players
Play something like the murder of my father
Before mine uncle. I'll observe his looks;
I'll tent him to the quick. If ’a do blench,
I know my course. The spirit that I have seen (610)
May be a devil, and the devil hath power
T’ assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps
Out of my weakness and my melancholy,
As he is very potent with such spirits,
Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds (615)
More relative than this. The play's the thing
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.
|
No comments:
Post a Comment