Act 5 Scene 2 Flashcards
Hamlet explaining what happened to rosencrants and Guildenstern
Unable to sleep - hamlet went to cabin of R+G
He found sealed instructions from Claudius to kill hamlet
He changed it to R+G and sealed w father’s deal
Very decisive NO solil ‘I’ ‘My’ ‘Father’s seal’
Who is ostric and what is his purpose in approaching hamlet?
To please him - tells Claudius has laid a duel with Laertes
Comic relief
How do hamlet and Horatio respond to Osric’s manner/ way of speaking
How is this behaviour familiar to us?
Osric- psychophantic
Hamlet and Horatio take mic
Hamlet parodies ‘verity of extolment’
Horatio mocks osric - ‘I knew you must be edified by the margent ere you had done’ -> I knew you’d need an explanation on the margin
How foes hamlet respond to osrics request and the lords
Osric - ‘How if I answer ‘no?’- provocative
Lord - ‘I am constant to my purposes’ - he will do it - friendly
What feelings does hamlet confess to Horatio and why does he ignore these
‘ill all’s here about my heart’
Dismisses emotions like a ‘woman’
Explore Hamlets apology to Laertes
How does Laertes respond
Hamlet
‘Give me your pardon sir, I’ve done you wrong’
‘I here proclaim was madness’
‘Brother’
Laertes
‘To keep my name ugored’ - reputation
‘I do receive your offered love like love’ - accepts
What happens in fight beginning
‘I’ll be your foil Laertes’
‘You mock me sir’
Laertes rejects first sword and gets another
‘This is too heavy. Let me see another’
King gets wine
‘Wine upon the table’
Hamlet gets 2 hits
King tries to give drink - refuses
‘Give him the cup’
‘I’ll play this but first’
Gertrude maternal love
‘Rub thy brows’
How fight turns violent
Gertrude refuses king and drinks
‘Do not drink’
‘I will’
[Laertes sounds hamlet… hamlet wounds Laertes]
[the queen falls]
Laertes caught in trap
‘I am justly killed with mine own treachery’
Laertes blames king
‘The kings to blame’
Hamlet [stabs the king] ‘drink off this poison [king dies]
Laertes exchanges forgiveness
‘Exchange forgiveness with me noble hamlet’
How does hamlet ask Horatio
How Horatio reminds
Hamlet ‘report and my cause aright’- spokesmen
Horatio - ‘yet some liquor left’ - suicide - love
Consider dramatic impact of arrival of English ambassadors and young Fortinbras
Tragedy - land in foreign army
How does Horatio explains tragedy
‘Bloody and unnatural acts’
Leaves out specifics
Under what circumstances does Fortinbras assume the Throne
What does he comment on hamlet/potential as king
‘I have some rights of memory in this kingdom’
‘Soldier’ ‘most royal’
