Hamlet resolution

Finishing of Hamlet:

-Ophelia drowned herself in the river

-Claudius had just calmed Laertes but now his rage has been ignited again due to the death of his sister and father

-At the funeral, Hamlet still did not know who had been killed

-when he finds out its Ophelia, he and Laertes both go up to the casket and hamlet declares that he loves Ophelia more than Laertes ever did or can

-the two men are pulled apart and people declare hamlet is insane

-Hamlet and Laertes sword fight; Hamlet strikes Laertes twice and his mother accidentally drank the Poison wine and died

-hamlet grabs Leartes poison sword and stabs him with it and kills Laertes

-furious, Hamlet demands that Claudius drinks the rest of the poison wine; he dies as well

-Hamlet dies from the stab of the poison sword and in his last words begs for forgiveness from Laertes

-fortinbras enters the room and announces Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead

-Fortinbras demand that Hamlet be carried off like a soldier

Righetti's Massacre

It's sad that this school has gained such a bad reputation because of the irresponsible, disrespectful students who attend. The six students who made these bad secessions do not define who the other 1,994 students who did not make those decisions. I love my school and those students I surround myself with. Righetti is not a bad place. It's a bad place for those kids who make it out to be a bad place. I will always be a Warrior no matter what occurs. These lockdowns do not define my four years at this great school. I have lived up and experienced so many great things throughout these four years with the help of the amazing students and staff I am surrounded by. Righetti High Achool IS a safe, successful school that contains GREAT students. 

Act IV notes

Hamlet Act IV

-Gertrude frantically approaches Claudius to announce the news of Hamlets killing of Polonius 

-Claudius declares the immediate shipping off of Hamlet to England

-Claudius is going to sweep this under the rug, they're going to tell society it was advisable, he's not going to try Hamlet for his wrongdoing, Claudius will not try him beause he knows Hamlet knows his secret and will come after him if Claudius comes on to him

-hamlet finsihed doing away with the dead body of Polonius and then is approached by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern asking what he did with the body

-Hamlet tells the boys that they shouldn't believe that he could trust them because they're stupid and that they are a sponge, take in information and just absorb it but do not act from it, Hamlet declares he is a prince and that he should not waste his words on them 

-he says Polonius is buried by his dad but the "king" is not with Polonius (the ghost)

-Claudius says it's not the actions of the person that get judged it's whether they are favored by society is all that matters 

-he also says that this is the plan all along and that this is what Hamlet wanted to go to school, he just wants to look good to society and not sketchy 

-Hanlet tells Claudius that Polonius is being eaten by the worms, a smart ass sarcastic word play, Hamlet is really throwing stuff in Claudius face 

-Claudius having Hamlet sent to England to be killed 

-Hamlet declares that they are Claudius spies 

Hamlet Essay

     "There is a difference between giving up and knowing when you have had enough." This quote, I believe, is an anecdote for Hamlet and his situation in Shakespeare's play. Between the disgusting, abnormal marriage between his "uncle" and his mother and the internal emotions he has to endure throughout the disturbing situation, Hamlet has to choose between continuing to live with himself and the trouble caused by the marriage, or to escape it all via suicide. Being an ordinary teenager, Hamlet has a rough time coping with the fact that his very own uncle and mother went behind his back, with a rigid, sizable dagger and forced it right into Hamlet's back.
     For any human being, a situation like the one Hamlet is forced to live through would be hurtful and hard to witness and experience. With this said, I do not believe Hamlet is "nuts." Being a teenager who was born into royalty, Hamlet has been taught his whole life how to correctly play life's game, how to treat your family and peers, and also how to behave like royalty.  Royalty is not supposed to betray its fellow royalty, instead they are educated to respect the other royalty members and know the boundaries surrounding it. Having his uncle and mother neglect and ignore all the requirements and "rulings" of family and royalty, Hamlet has the right to be upset, angry, resentful, and everything else he feels and portrays throughout the play. Constantly being spied on, followed, questioned, judged, and ridiculed is not an easy thing for a teenager like Hamlet to cope and deal with. In other words, with all of the heartache Hamlet is forced to experience because of his "family," Hamlet is allowed to become enraged and at the least, bitter. ."
     Because life is like a rollercoaster, providing its inhabitants with "ups" and "downs", Hamlet's life went from up to down in a blink of an eye. With the devastating death of his father, King Hamlet, to the disturbing marriage of his Back-stabbing uncle and mother, Hamlet's emotions vary greatly. From the satisfaction he feels when Claudius indirectly reveals he murdered Hamlet's father, to hearing the Claudius has been sending his servant-like friends to spy on Hamlet, Hamlet has no reassuring feelings. He is never able to be fully content with his life because he is constantly betrayed by people he though were royal to him. All of the misery and suffering Hamlet faces every second of his life, he begins to question rather or not the sin of suicide will outweigh the negative he faces on an everyday basis. He must decide whether or not he will end his life oblivious to what heaven will have in store for him, or to not take his life and avenge his fathers death. The fear of death and suicide alone, affects the saneness of an individual. Thus, Hamlet, a young, demented boy has become "mad" just by the thought of suicide itself caused by all of the actions of his "family."
     Hamlet is forced to hide his feelings because if he does not, he will be providing ammunition for those who are out to destroy him. He is unable to express the way he feels out loud, he is strained to bottle everything up and put on a front to society. "Behind my smile is a hurting heart, behind my laugh I'm falling apart, look closely at me and you will see, the man I am, isn't me." Not only is his external, surrounding environment negative and dark, but so is his internal one. He is constantly battling both himself and others, in search of an escape. His only escape from the terrifying, disturbing reality he is affected by is by either killing those who have done him wrong and avenging his innocent father's death, or to kill his innocent self over other's ignorant actions. Hamlet is given all the right in the world to become and/or feel mad. Who in the right of mind would be okay being surrounded by disloyal, backstabbing family? I know you wouldn't. To be or not to  be, is that really the question?

Classroom Discussion for 11/14

Classroom Discussion from 11/14

-in Claudius soliloquy, Hamlet does not proceed with the killings because he does not want to send Claudius to heaven during prayer, he wants to send him to hell

*the ghost tells Hamlet to not kill Gertrude but to let her live with the pale cast of guilt 

-Claudius feels guilty because he knows Hamlet is out to get him and that he is unable to enjoy his new life with Gertrude

-When Hamlet speaks to Ophelia in act III he is very sexual and disrespectful 

-After Hamlet stabs Polonius, he goes absolutely insane and goes off on his mother

-with Polonius death, hamlet goes from a character of words to a character of action And a speaker with more integrity 

-in this context murder is a catalyst for people to realize who they truly are

Class discussion 11/13

Class room discussion 

-Hamlets soliloquies create understandings and expectation for himself and also a feeling of himself that is increasingly negative as the play goes on. 

-Hamlet is creating a sense of reality by performing/talking

-Austen's theory refers to Shakespeare's play to be perlocutionary

-Hamlet is reinforcing through his soliloquies that he's not the guy to perform the murder of Claudius

-Hamlet is thinking about his thought process and thinks he will not be able to complete the action if he continues to overthink the issue

-he judges himself too harshly and that hinders his confidence to complete the murder of Claudius

-The speaking of oneself inhibits the actions they will perform because they begin to tell their self they're not as good as they truly are

-we create ourselves as we speak and act

-Polonius is more like Hamlet then Claudius because he never performs actions, he just sits back and observes, he's a creature of words and language only transporting information from person to person based on the situation he's involved in; he's all about the verbal exchange; really wants to figure things out through the use of language

-Claudius performs actions, is quick to do something instead of saying he's going to do it

-Claudius was praying out of guilt and sin and because of this his prayer did not go through because it was an unsympathetic act because he knows he is going to be killed sooner or later

-Hamlet didn't kill him because he wanted to find a better more successful way to kill Claudius instead of while Claudius was praying to God

-Claudius is overall a rotten character even when he's at his most honest self

-in the story there are bigger issues between the characters than the actual importance of the characters 

Hamlet Act 3 Remix

Our group's remix representation of the central theme of Hamlet was that Hamlet being an ordinary teen, struggles not only externally but internally with the depressing situation he is involved in. He is surrounded by negativity, darkness, and chaos constantly. Continuously battling the harsh judgments of himself by others and even his own self, he begins to feel as if he is "not there" or "not human." Stuck between the death of his royal father and the death of his arrogant, cocky, back-stabbing step "father"/uncle, Hamlet is brought to the conflict of dealing with the burden of just his father's death or dealing with both the bitterness of his father's death AND the courage it takes to over come the sins attached to the completed murder of Claudius. Not only is he internally, insane, dark, and depressed, but the environment and atmosphere surrounding his is as well. 

The Performative Utterance in Hamlet Notes

-Bloom considers this self-overhearing the "royal road to individuation" (xvii),the process which allows characters to realize their own utterances and in doing so realize themselves.
-It might be said that a man incapable of realizing the power of his own agency, but fully capable of using the spoken word, could come to learn of his agency by realizing that his speech has power to create actual change in the world.
-Shakespeare was a dramatist, his creations plays meant for performance..
-The problem is that Hamlet does not swear to avenge his father, if we read closely. Having been told of his father's murder, he "writes in his tablet"-- which is a purely metaphorical "tablet of the mind"-- and then swears to remember his father, saying, "Now to my word:/ It is 'Adieu, adieu! remember me/ I have sworn't" (1.5.110-12). The ghost has indeed asked Hamlet to remember him, and doing so lies within Hamlet's duty, but surely thisduty is secondary to what the ghost compels Hamlet to do at the beginning of his speech, to"[r]evenge his foul and most unnatural murther" (1.5.25). -Hamlet swears only to remember, an entirely cognitive act and one subject to no outside verification
-Hamlet is at this point merely the student and philosopher, and his ability to physically enact revenge is stillborn. We might imagine him overhearing himself and being confronted by performative utterances that lack the power they might have had.
-the playacting of the characters in hamlet gives the characterization of the characters more depth because of the fact that the characters are speaking aloud to an audience- This echoes Hamlet's evaluation of the Player King's emotional state through the proxy of his physical visage, and we could make the simple connection of physical demonstrations of emotion to belief in the presence of that emotion to belief in the authenticity of the speaker's words
-This progression is important, as belief inauthenticity or truth in language has great consequences for human behavior
-This importance of the perceived legitimacy of the emotional context of utterances to the power of those utterances is a problem in the world of Hamlet
-It could be said with only a little exaggeration that the central problem of the play is that people represent their feelings and their intentions in ways that are contrary to reality*I believe that the feelings the characters
-The playing of a particular role not on the clearly defined space of the stage but rather out and about in "real life" is central to the plot of Hamlet  and contains the potential for more unhappy performative utterances
-mimetic act in the play is Hamlet's antic disposition, a play at madness designed to hide Hamlet's murderous intent, to cover his investigation of his uncle's crime and to inoculate him from punishment for his various small sins as he progresses towards his duty.
-Polonius is vulnerable to Hamlet because of this mechanistic vision of human nature; madness, for him, is "madness," and decent, sane behavior is as formalized and conventional as the various ceremonies of state that orbit around him. Polonius approaches his evaluation of Hamlet's supposed madness like a detective seeking out clues to a crime, trying to apply Hamlet's situation to others that match his understanding of what drives men to distraction and bizarre behavior
-Hamlet's shifting identities suggest that all of us create" utterly different yet self-consistent" visages of ourselves every day
-Even at the end, Hamlet is compelled by those around him, powerful in mind but still at the mercy of the will of those around him. Only when he is literally dying, poisoned, does he take up his agency and apply it to his stated desire. Hamlet's long performance over, he gives himself to the physical realization of his long delayed revenge; a character previously incapable of doing what he intended grasps his personal agency and expresses it in the most extreme way possible. Mimesis at an end, the paralysis of the cognitive at an end, self-actualization and performance and agency become all one, and consummation comes.
-What happens in the end? Does Hamlet, himself, get revenge on Claudius, or does he have someone else do his dirty work?
-Does Gertrude live? Hamlet? Polonius? Ophelia?????
- I liked this article very much because I feel like it gave me a whole other perspective on the play, way different from the one I have as of right now
  

Hamlet Act 3 Notes

Hamlet Act III

-Indirect characterization saying that hamlet is crazy in love with his daughter, Polonius is on to Hamlet and knows he's faking this act and is forcing his feelings

-Claudius comes out and says he feels guilty

-Hamlet is commenting on its easier to be beautiful than to be honest

-"I did love you once" inferring that he doesn't love her anymore

-Hamlet doesn't trust Ophelia's reasons for approaching him

-Hamlet says that everybody is acting a fool, even himself

-He damns Polonius and tells Ophelia how he really feels about her father

-King Claudius and Polonius heard Hamlets conversation with Ophelia; they set up Hamlet to have that conversation with her

-Claudius says he doesn't want any trouble to come to he or Hamlet so he says to get Hamlet out of here back to England

-Claudius if you want to send him to England do it, but let hamlet be alone with Gertrude for a while

-Polonius will spy and listen in on Gertrude and Hamlets conversation to see if she would also like to send him to England

-Hamlet becomes furious while speaking with Ophelia and rants about how women make monsters out of men

-Clauduius and Polonius come out from their hiding spot and declare to Hamlet that his weird, insane behavior was not caused by his love for Ophelia but by something else and that Claudius feels something bad is going to happen (by Hamlet) so he states that he's sending him to England to avoid the event

-Hamlet gets the players ready to put on the play and asks Horatio to watch Claudius throughout the play to see if he makes any guilty gestures 

-the play is an accurate representation of how Claudius murdered King Hamlet which makes Claudius shout to end the play and turn the lights on 

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-hamlet and Horatio are excited that they got the expected and wanted reaction out of Claudius 

-Hamlet is told that his mother wants to see him so he goes to see her but declares that they speak alone

-feeling guilty and scared for what's in store for him because Hamlet is aware of the mutdernhe commuted, Claudius demands that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern take Hamlet to England 

-Claudius has a soliloquy in  which he begs for forgiveness for his sins

-Hamlet goes to kill Claudius but catches him while he is praying and doesn't want to kill him when he was seeking forgiveness for sins beause he will then go to heaven instead of hell. He decides to prolong the kill

-Hamlet goes to speak to his mother not knowing that Polonius is hiding behind curtains

-his mother tells him he offended Claudius and Hamlet says that SHE offended his father by committing her sin of marrying his uncle

-Hamlet gets very angry and his mother gets scared and cries for help. Polonius pops out and also yells for backup 

-Hamlet stabs Polonius with his sword and kills him

-Hamlet turns back to his mother and scorns her for the horrible person she was and also the nasty person she married

-all of a sudden the ghost of his father appears reinforcing his expectation of Hamlet to kill the "king"

-Gertrude thinks Hamlet is crazy because she cannot see the ghost

-the ghost leaves, and hamlet leaves the room with Polonius dead body

My Personal Notes on Hamlet

Hamlet Scene iii 

Laertes is polonius' son

Ophelia is Laertes sister 

Hamlet has affection towards Ophelia

Laertes tells his sister that hamlets intentions of affection for Ophelia is not good

Cautel- cautious 

Polonius tells his son to think before he speaks etc gives him a lecture 

Hamlet scene IV 

Conversation between hamlet and Marcellus

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Represents any type of foul play or discomfort. 

Scene V

Ghost is revealed himself as Hamlet senior 

He reveals that Claudius murdered Hamlet Sr

Hamlets mother knew that Claudius was going to kill her husband 

While hamlet Sr was sleeping, Claudius poured poison in the Kings ear and the toxin killed him rapidly 

King says it's not up to you to punish Gertrude, but do whatever to punish Claudius

In other words, the King tells Hamlet to get get revenge on Claudius

"I have sworn it." Hamlet has resolved. He knows what he has to do but does not do it. 

A heroic expectation/obligation is out on Hamlet to avenge his fathers death

 "O, wonderful!" Hamlet says now that he knows the real truth

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than dreamt of in your philosophy."

Hamlet says nothing will get him to reveal his secret

"The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right." Hamlet was born to avenge his father's death

Hamlet views revenge as a difficult motive 

Act II Scene I 

Polonius wants Reynaldo to scout on Polonius' kid Laertes but don't let him know that his father sent him 

Polonius tells him to fish for the truth. "By indirections find directions out." 

Polonius is a schemer 

Ophelia states that Hamlet was drawn into her because he was stuck in an emotional state and that he was there in misery because of his fathers death

Polonius demanding her that she does not see hamlet but she is in love 

They state that hamlet may be loving her out of misery or that he could be faking it

Hamlets friends investigate Hamlets depression

"Since brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.." 

Polonius declares that hamlet is in love with Ophelia and shows letters from him to her to the king and queen 

Polonium is dead wrong about Hamlets love for his daughter 

They come up with a plan to test Hamlets love for Ophelia

Hamlet and Polonius converse and Hamlet calls Polonius a fishmonger. Initiating Hamlet is insane

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. "

Polonius says to the audience that Hamlets comments have several meanings

"For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison."

"What a piece of work is a man!" Act II scene II hamlet

"The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king." Hamlet a soliloquy in act two scene two

Hamlet was creating a plan to avenge in his fathers death. 

He compares himself to to the player and is so hard on himself and puts himself down

"I'll have these players play something like the murder of my father before mine uncle:"

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Hamlet's Soliloquy

SORRRY, I was unaware that I cut off my eyes. I got nervous haha sorry for the mistakes! I tried! 

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