Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Hamlet 3:4
Question 1: The act starts with Hamlet screaming at his mom and his mom asking whats wrong with him. Hamlet really starts going crazy then and so Polonius trys to call for help. That makes Hamlet mad I guess because he goes and stabs him till he dies. His mother starts freaking out because there is a dead person in her room and asks why Hamlet stabed him. He says that he'll tell her but first makes her look at pictures of her current husband and Hamlet's father. He goes on comparing how great his father is and how crappy her husband is and how he isn't fit to rule. Then asks her why she would marry someone like that. His mom says to stop talking to her about it because he is making her feel bad about herself. Then the ghost shows up and Hamlet starts talking to it. His mother can't see it and thinks Hamlet has lost his mind. The ghost tells him that he is doing a good job at making his mother see her faults, then leaves. Afterwards, his mother asks him if he is crazy and he says that he isn't and he never has been, but that doesn't change the fact that she is still guilty. She says that she is sorry and he tells her to stop sleeping with her husband because he is bad. Then he tells her that he has to go to England, but he feels like something bad is going to happen so he is just going to let life come to him. Then he hides Polonius's body and the act ends. Question 2: The most important line is when Hamlets mother says "oh, Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain" when they are talking about why she married her husband. Mostly, that means that she is sorry for what she did. I think its important because it proves that Hamlet got through to her. Question 4: My favorite line is when Hamlet is comparing his mothers two husbands and says "have you eyes? Could you on this fair moutain leave to fee and batten on this moor? Ha, have you eyes?" I like it because it is Hamlet shoving the fact that she married a horrible person in her face. Also, I think its kind of funny.
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