4,4 Flashcards
What happens
Fortinbras enters Denmark with army
Hamlet compares himself to fortinbras - he must ac
How is this scene like 2,2
He felt ashamed he couldn’t reach intense emotion of players - decided to play mouse trap
Now he feels ashamed he can’t act desivejtly so decided to
Hamlet admires fortinbras
His ability to act
If he can lead innocent men to death.
Hamlet can take vengeance on clapuod
He says fortinbras isn’t moral right as he fights for “a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit”
His revenge
He decided that “from this time forth my thoughts he blood
Prepares to act
But he still says “thoughts” not ‘ actions’ which suggests hamlets revenge only comes as a result of cladisoif actions
Hamlets soliloquy
Stop thinking and act - coward
“Thinking too precisely on the event”
“Greatly to find quarrel in a straw when honours at the stake”
Especially when “a father killed, a mother stained”
“My thoughts he bloody or be nothing worth”