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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Hamlet Act IV Scene IV, V, VI, VII

Scene IV

  • To battle is to protect, defend one's country
  • honor, loyalty, valor, semper fi, - a soldier's true values and morals for fighting
  • way of the soldier
  • Hamlet: "How all occasions learn do inform against me, And spurn my dull revenge!"
  • Humans - only animals that consciously learn, go back to past and future experiences; conscious reflection and communication
  • Actor vs. Captain emotions
  • Acts of revenge on killing Claudius

Scene V

  • Ophelia is crazed out of her mind between the conflicts of death and love
  • King Claudius has both Laertes and Ophelia to deal  with because of Polonius's death
  • -tries to diffuse the situation through power
  • -reason by saying that the he is allied and friended with Lord Polonius
  • find out who the bad guy is... king is planning to have more people on his side

Scene VI

  • Hamlet avoids death and warns Horatio
  • wishing to come back
  • ditches Rosencrantz and Guildenstern en route to England

Scene VII

  • King Claudius- saying that he does not persecute Hamlet because of obvious reasons
  • to keep his kingly status and not despise the loyalist of Hamlet
  • -too good to be in trouble
  • -to punish Hamlet in means of the fault of the king
  • -doesn't want to kill Hamlet because of mother-son relationship to Queen Gertrude

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