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| Hamlet's fatal error |
Review vocabulary - quiz tomorrow!
- wretched (adj.) – very unhappy, ill, etc.
- ecstasy (n.) – archaic for madness
- neglected (adj.) – given little attention or respect
- expel (v.) – to drive or force out or away
- commencement (n.) – beginning, start
- entreat (v.) – to beg
- arras (n.) – a wall hanging, as a tapestry or similar object
- Hyperion (n.) – the sun god, often said to be the most beautiful of the gods
- cozened (v.) – tricked
- sans (prep.) – without
Class read aloud: Act 3.4, Lines 1-100
Parts:
Polonius
Hamlet
Queen Gertrude
Film: Part 8 (watch 4 min -12:35)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kkUlmn0igk
Graphic Organizer:
Paraphrase this passage:
What is Hamlet asking Gertrude to look at?
Graphic Organizer:
Hamlet:
Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!
I took thee for they better. Take thy fortune.
Thou find’st to be too busy in some danger. –
Leave wringing of your hands. Peace, sit you down (35)
And let me wring your heart, for so I shall
If it be made of penetrable stuff,
If damned custom have not brazed it so
That it be proof and bulwark against sense.”
Hamlet:
Such an act
That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,
Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose
From the fair forehead of an innocent love,
And sets a blister there, makes marriage vows (45)
As false as dicers' oaths. O, such a deed
As from the body of contraction plucks
The very soul, and sweet religion makes
A rhapsody of words! Heaven's face doth glow
O’er this solidity and compound
mass (50)
With heated visage, as against the doom,
Is thoughtsick at the act.
Gertrude:
Ay me, what act
That roars so loud and thunders in the index?
To what “act” of Gertrude’s is Hamlet referring?
What imagery does Hamlet use to describe the “act” (50–54)?
According to Hamlet, how does “heaven” react to Gertrude’s
deed? (49-52)
Hamlet:
Look here upon th's picture, and on this,
The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. (55)
See what a grace was seated on this brow;
Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself;
An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;
A station like the herald Mercury
New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill (60)
A combination and a form indeed
Where every god did seem to set his seal
To give the world assurance of a man.
This was your husband. Look you now what follows.
Here is your husband, like a mildew'd ear (65)
Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?
What imagery does Hamlet use to describe his father in lines 56–64? What is the impact of this?
Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed,
And batten on this moor? Ha! Have you eyes?
You cannot call it love, for at your age
The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble, (70)
And waits upon the judgment; and what judgment
Would step from this to this? Sense sure you have,
Else could you not have motion; but sure that sense
Is apoplexed; for madness would not err,
Nor sense to ecstasy was ne'er so thralled (75)
But it reserved some quantity of choice
To serve in such a difference. What devil was't
That thus hath cozened you at hoodman-blind?
According to Hamlet in lines 69-70, why has Gertrude not married Claudius for love?
Hamlet does not believe Gertrude is mad. So who or what is the cause of her choosing Claudius? (77-78)
Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,
Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all, (80)
Or but a sickly part of one true sense
Could not so mope.
O shame, where is thy blush? Rebellious hell,
If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones,
To flaming youth let virtue be as wax (85)
And melt in her own fire. Proclaim no shame
When the compulsive ardor gives the charge,
Since frost itself as actively doth burn,
And reason panders will.
What imagery does Hamlet use to describe Gertrude in lines 79-80?
Paraphrase lines 83–89. What is Hamlet suggesting about
Gertrude?
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