Sunday, November 9, 2014

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 
-guilty? 😏😏😏😏
-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

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