Gugggggg i'm sorry I just got back from work :(! Bah it's so late. Anyhow today in the beginning of class we turned in our responses to the quotes we recieved. Then Mr. Lazarow handed out more Hamlet questions and thus started our discusion of Act 3 Scene 1. There is a point in the break up scene with Ophelia, that Hamlet realizes her father is in the room. This place is line 129. He says "Where's your father" and Ophelia responds by lying and telling him that her father is at home. When everyone departs Ophelia has a moment alone where she has her own soliloquy. In it she expresses worry for everyone and the nation but does not refer to love or her and Hamlets relationship. This indicates betrayal and that any love that MAY have been is now gone.
HAMLETS SOLILOQUY..... 'to be or not to be...'
We compared this soliloquy with his previous one, where he is very enthusiastic about the players and his plan to expose claudius. His feelings are almost considered manic in comparison to this Act 3 Scene 1 soliloquy. This moment is a very low one where Hamlet mainly discusses death. He believes that in death there is no pain and that life is pretty awful.
He compares death to sleeping when you dream. If you dream when you are dead you would not be able to wake from a bad dream. Hamlet then comes to a conclusion that FEAR GOVERNS ACTIONS: in life you can try to fight for troubles (but inevitably life will mull you over) or you can just die. But, troubles in death could be worse than troubles in life. Either way you are avoiding which ever you think is worse thus being a 'coward'.
MARCH 13TH is when the film analysis paper is due!
-Emily Wallace
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