Hamlet final draft
Answer 1 of the following questions in 4-5 pages (1000 word minimum).
Be sure to review the attached rubric for grading requirements.
1. Hamlet’s soliloquies reveal intense internal conflict and self-recrimination. Choose one to study carefully, using this soliloquy to examine other elements of the play. Consider what justifications exist in the speech for Hamlet taking revenge, or for his delay. What do we learn about his behavior in the play at large? What is the significance of this speech to his behavior in other scenes, relationships, and speeches in the rest of the play? Give concrete examples. ***This may NOT be the third soliloquy, To Be or Not To Be! Choose one of the other main soliloquies from Act 1 (“O, that this too too solid flesh would melt” 1.1.129), Act 2 (“O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! 2.2.533) or Act 4 (“How all occasions do inform against me” 4.4.32). Your essay should use this soliloquy as a way to analyze other examples of Hamlet’s mindset and behavior in the play (other relationships, scenes, and/or speeches).
2. There are important parallels between Hamlet and Ophelia. How is Ophelia’s madness different from Hamlet’s? Compare what each loses in the play, the grief each has suffered. Specifically, compare an instance of Ophelia’s language with Hamlet’s. How do other characters describe their different uses of language? To what extent is each character “mad,” and what is the significance of “madness” to these characters to the play at large? Your essay should analyze relationships, speeches, and/or scenes in the play as examples of their differing madness.
Note: When citing Shakespeare’s plays, format quotations similarly to lines of poetry. Introduce direct quotations and never leave your citations free-standing. Show line breaks. In parenthesis, identify the Act.Scene.Lines and not page numbers, as in the following example:
Clothing and disguise in Hamlet are important factors of self-discovery. When Francisco says “Stand and unfold yourself” (1.1.2) in the opening scene, he announces the idea that the play will be about identity, and how characters reveal their true intentions. “Seems, madam! Nay it is; I know not ‘seems” Hamlet remarks to Gertrude, explaining the difference between appearance and desire: “Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, / Nor customary suits of solemn black . . . That can denote me truly.” (1.2.76-83) Clothing for Hamlet is a false display of genuine emotion as Hamlet finds himself obsessed by a “smiling, damnéd villain.” (1.5.108)
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