lesson 3 personal response to soliloqui
Summarize how listening to actors perform the soliloquies allowed you to better understand Hamlet’s changing mindset throughout the play. Refer to specific soliloquies to support your answer. How did hearing the soliloquy lift the words off the page and move you more as the audience?
Listening and reading are two completely different things when it comes to plays. While reading the play, when I read Hamlet's soliloquy "to be or not to be" I got the sense that Hamlet was upset or angry. "The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep no more, and by a sleep to say we end the heartache, and the natural thousand shocks that flesh is heir to." Reading the words gave off a sense of anger but listening to David Tennants or Richard Burton's performances of the soliloquy gives a different emotional sense, The same words that seemed were being said by an angry Hamlet turn into a sad Hamlet. The actors do an amazing job and their roles and their dialogues and emotions give a new feel to the play.
Listening and reading are two completely different things when it comes to plays. While reading the play, when I read Hamlet's soliloquy "to be or not to be" I got the sense that Hamlet was upset or angry. "The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep no more, and by a sleep to say we end the heartache, and the natural thousand shocks that flesh is heir to." Reading the words gave off a sense of anger but listening to David Tennants or Richard Burton's performances of the soliloquy gives a different emotional sense, The same words that seemed were being said by an angry Hamlet turn into a sad Hamlet. The actors do an amazing job and their roles and their dialogues and emotions give a new feel to the play.