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Hamlet:
1. Underline/highlight + write in the margin all things of interest, preferably by hand (you need to take a photo/screenshot of this and copy it into your assignment). You can for example underline interesting words, interesting themes, rhymes, repetition of words, key words, semantic fields, figurative language etc.
- Semantic fields
- Metaphors
- Contrasts and comparisons
- Repetition
- Inspirations
- Themes
2. Divide the soliloquy into smaller parts and give each part a title.
3. Describe Hamlet at this point in the play (100-300 words). Support (some of) the chosen characteristics with examples (PEE).
4. Find references to unorder, or even chaos (mark them in the text) and give suggestions to why Hamlet talks about unorder. For once you can write, “I think…”.
5. Watch these three different interpretations of Hamlet’s first soliloquy
6. Write a short text (300-400 words) in which you compare the three interpretations in terms of for example mood and emotions.
- TNT Theatre
- Kenneth Branagh
- David Tennant
- Comparison
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Uddrag
HAMLET:
O, that this too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God!
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! O fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
That it should come to this! But two months dead! — nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this,
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3. Describe Hamlet at this point in the play (100-300 words). Support (some of) the chosen characteristics with examples (PEE).
Hamlet has up to this point only expressed himself through facial expressions and few words. Up until this soliloquy Hamlet hasn’t expressed himself fully yet.
This abundance of emotions, feelings and events Hamlet has built up inside. A now being alone with no one to hear him, he expresses his thoughts and true feelings.
In the soliloquy Hamlet is finally able to express the pain he feels, after his mother’s remarriage with his uncle. At the same time Hamlet comes across very depressed, especially with his suicidal thoughts.
The reasoning of the soliloquy is, to make it clear to the audience how and what Hamlet feels, as well as why he feels this way. The soliloquy tells why Hamlet is so depressed and sad.
These events that has transpired without Hamlet being able to cope and deal with them, these events being: the death of his father, Hamlet, and his mother, Gertrude, remarrying his uncle, Claudius, shortly after the loss of Hamlet’s father.
Throughout the soliloquy it is also important to note how much Hamlet actually resents new King Claudius. This is clearly shown when Hamlet says “My father's brother; but no more like my father.
Than I to Hercules”. The comparison Hamlet makes basically says that he sees and saw his father, the old king, with honour contrary to the new King Claudius.
In the soliloquy Hamlet also expresses his negative view on women when he says, “frailty thy name is woman”, which translates to him saying women are the symbol and example of weakness.
Although this mostly regards his anger towards his mother, it also applies to his relationship with Ophelia, which is seen later in the play. To conclude the soliloquy is necessary to not leave the audience confused, as of why Hamlet is depressed and sad.
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