Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Hamlet Act 4 scene 4/5/6/7 Notes

Scene 4
Captain doesn't think that attacking Poland would be worth it 
The captain humbles Hamlet
"How all occasions do inform me and spur my dull revenge." 
Hamlet is being motivated by everybody's doubt because he finds it frustrating 
Humans are the only animals known to be able to contemplate past and future 
Hamlet thinks of how the soldier didn't question orders, he just does them. Respects that about soldiers (in context to killing Claudius because ghost told him to)
Hamlet beats himself up over waiting so long to take action on Claudius. 
Hamlet decided to not think of anything other than killing Claudius 

Scene 5
Gertrude refuses to talk to Ophelia 
Claudius' problem isn't going away 
Ophelia sings for effect
Ophelia has completely lost it. Starts talking about her father dying and is buried backward. She talks about her love for hamlet. Implies she has been traumatized by what has happened. 
Ophelia threats kind Claudius. States that she's going to tell her brother everything that happened. 
Claudius orders her to be followed and have somebody keep tabs on her. 
Claudius anticipates Laertes returns angry to cause trouble for Claudius.
Laertes and Danes come armed and angry 
Ophelia has lost her wits and love. Laertes blames hamlet. 

Scene 6
Hamlet manages to escape and hamlet has something up his sleeve that he only wants to share with Horatio in person 
Claudius is trying to get Laertes to kill hamlet in good circumstances that doesn't look like murder 

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