Mckenna Schnack 10/31/12 Mrs. Brookes IB English Hamlet Journal Analysis Summary * ACT 1‚ SCENE 1 * The two guards first see a ghost. Then they call Horatio in to talk to the ghost because he is a scholar. The Ghost returns but doesn’t talk to Horatio. It disappears and the guards believe that Horatio scared it off. Then the ghost returns again and Horatio isn’t able to converse with it again. The ghost looks like deceased King Hamlet. * ACT 1‚ SCENE 2 * King Claudius gives
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confrontation between Hamlet and Polonius. Thus‚ I decided to make a tableau vivant of tennis game at the start and end of the game. In the tableau I will consider characters’ location‚ posture‚ gesture‚ props and the settings relating them to themes motifs and symbols. The first tableau vivant will demonstrate the game in the first point. Polonius will be in the net; ready to slam Hamlet’s serve devolution‚ which is at the back of the quart. Polonius is wearing a polo shirt while Hamlet is wearing a stained
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Another person whose virtue parallels that of Hamlet was Laertes‚ the son one of the Courtiers in Claudious’s court. Both of these men also share the trait of impulsiveness‚ achieving spontaneous reactions when angered. In Laertes this revealed in his return to Ellisenore after his father’s death. He returns with fire in his veins and revenge seething from his breath ready to kill the king. "To Hell‚ Allegiance! Vows‚ to blackest devil!". In Hamlet this is seen in his rash reaction in stabbing Polonious
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William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Franco Zeffirelli’s film version of Hamlet basically share the same characters and story. However‚ in Shakespeare’s ghost scenes‚ Zeffirelli uses narrative and film techniques to create a kind of suspenseful atmosphere and to cause feelings of compassion for Hamlet. In the film‚ Zeffirelli makes some changes in the narrative techniques‚ like act 1 of the play for example‚ by rearranging the plays story line‚ like adding to the settings of each scene‚ and not having
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare AP English Literature Journal Assignments The following are journal entries for our reading of Hamlet. Each entry should be completed after we have finished reading and/or viewing that scene in class. The purpose is to prepare you for class discussion; therefore‚ you should have something written for each entry before we discuss it in class (even if it’s only a question). See Ms. M with questions ahead of time – don’t expect to be given answers in class! Be sure
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: A Masterpiece of Combined Efforts Shakespeare’s timeless work of literature‚ and one of the most popular plays to this day‚ Hamlet‚ was not just a tale Shakespeare himself thought up on his own with no inspiration from outside sources. Shakespeare’s wonderful writing stems from not only his natural talent‚ but from his influence pulled from the great writers who came before him. Literature builds upon itself; every work of literature in existence has some inspiration from another
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a phantom of literary debate that has haunted readers throughout the centuries. Hamlet is a complete enigma; a puzzle scholars have tried to piece together since his introduction to the literary world. Throughout the course of Hamlet the reader is constantly striving to rationalize Hamlet’s odd behavior‚ mostly through the play’s written text. In doing so‚ many readers mistakenly draw their conclusions based on the surface content of Hamlet’s statements
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Hamlet: The Sentimental Dreamer The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark is William Shakespeare’s most well-known and analyzed work of literature. As the play unfolds‚ Hamlet has to face the difficult task of seeking revenge against his uncle‚ Claudius‚ for the murder of his father‚ King Hamlet. Hamlet has captured audiences and readers for centuries and has caused much inquiry and debate. Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a very psychologically complex character. Throughout the play‚ Hamlet conveys two different
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what could have caused this moment of hesitation in Hamlet against his uncle‚ Claudius. Sigmund Freud‚ the famous psychoanalyst of the late 19th and early 20th century‚ suggested in The Interpretation of Dreams that William Shakespeare’s marvelous character‚ Hamlet‚ suffered from what Freud named “Oedipus Complex‚” a disorder in which a male holds an incestuous desire for his mother and therefore resents his father. Freud believed that “Hamlet is able to do anything but take vengeance upon the man
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The first time the audience encounters Hamlet in Act 3 is in Scene 1 with one of his most famous soliloquies. Hamlet enters‚ after Polonius‚ Claudius‚ and Ophelia devise a plan to discover if Hamlet has been driven mad by love‚ and stands alone in the room to deliver his soliloquy. Hamlet starts with “To be or not to be-- that is the question:” and then continues‚ “Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune‚ / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
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