3,1 Flashcards
What happens
R + G tell Claudius they dno what’s causing hamlets madness
Claudius gilty
Hamlet can’t revenge / kill Claudius
p and c eaves drop on hamlet and opthelia
Hamlets villainous
Cruel to opthelia
And especially if he isn’t even mad - just part of his plan
Polonois thinks he’s mad by lovesick but Claudius detects ambition in him
He kills polonois
Signicanct of killing polonois
Shows the consequences of irrational / quick action
It’s why hamlet is a thinker because when he acts it’s bad
This motivates laertes revenge
Hamlets solilgous
Suicide
Philosophical idea - doesn’t actually do it.
Hypothetical argument with reader.
Christian morals prevent him from committing suicide - would be sin
He says that afterlife would appeal to those who are miserable but worries of consequences of afterlife - he doesn’t want to suffer there
Guilden doesn’t think it’s real madness
“Crafy madness”
Not genuine
Hides true intensuon
What’s difference between reevneger & detective
Detective = justice = rational
Revenge = irrational
Kings consuming guilt
“Not more ugly to the thing that helps it that is my deed to my most painted word o heavy burden!” And mood
Hamlets says is it better to carry on suffering or take action to put things right ?
Tis nobler un the mind to suffer the slings and attained of outrageous fortune or take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them
Hamlets wants to die to end hEart ache
“To die - to sleep no more and by a sleep to say we end the heart ache”
Scared of afterlife so doesn’t kill himself
“Dread of something after death the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns”
“Conscience does make coward of ya all” his tragic flaw
Hamlet callous to othelia
“I love you not”
“Get thee to a nunnery “
“Wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them”
“God hath given you one face and you make yourself another” - this is calodious
Opejtlia mourns loss of hamlet has magi ifnce
“What a noble mind is here overthrown”
“Sucked honey of his music vows”
Claudius thinks he’s not mad bcoz of love
“Love? His affections fo not that way tend… was not like madness”
“There’s something in his soul@
Plonkans not sympathetic to Ophelia
“You need not tell us what lord hamlet said we heard it all”
How this pivotal scene for hamlet ?
He becomes a villain
Purposely callous to opethia
Not
Innocent
