Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Hamlet Act 1 Scene 1 Notes

Always read scenes first, able to visualize on your own, then if you still don't understand, watch videos.

Setting: Outside, on a platform in front of the castle of Elsinore in Denmark at midnight 

Read iambic petameter by punctuation, not by line

Speak of how they've seen a ghost, Horatio doesn't believe the others. 

The ghost enters, and the men question it. The ghost ends up being the dead king. 

King hamlet is killed by fortinbras' son, because he killed fortinbras the elder. 

Son fortinbras is rallying an army to attack Hamlet jr

Kings ghost appears to resolve some unfinished business. 

Alludes to Julius Ceaser and that type of writing 

They suggest that they tell young Hamlet and see if the ghost will talk to his son. 






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