Coming up: vocabulary quiz on Friday: "A Room of One's Own"
Thursday: power point vocabulary review
Note for November 4: with the exception of the couple people with whom I have spoken, grades for marking period 1 are closed.
In class: Hamlet thematic essay / cumulative assessment.
class handout / copy below
Name___________________________ Thematic
essay Due at the close of class on
Wednesday, November 4
Thematic
graphic organizer to be used as a resource for the Hamlet essay on thematic development. The following textual
evidence is from Acts 1-5
Directions:
You will fine below four of the themes that are developed in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
As well, there is a chart of supporting textual evidence. Your assignment is to
select one of the themes and show how through character and plot this is developed in the play. One
to two paragraphs of approximately 300 words should suffice. Weave in textual
evidence to support your thesis.
1. Begin with an MLA heading. The title
of the essay: (theme choice) in Hamlet
2. Your first line should be the hook
about your chosen theme.
3. Follow with your thesis statement.
Option: Shakespeare develops the theme of ……..
Themes: Moral corruption and the consequent
dysfunction of family and state.
Revenge and the complexity of taking revengeful action
Appearance and reality and the difficulty of discovering and
exposing the truth in a corrupt society.
Mortality and the mystery of death
quote theme who is speaking speaking to or about
whom
Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. (1.2179-83) |
Appearance and reality
Moral corruption
|
Hamlet
|
Horatio
|
Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not "seems."
(1.1.76)
|
Appearance and reality
|
Hamlet
|
Gertrude
|
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew. (1.2.130-1) |
mortality
|
Hamlet
|
soliloquy
|
This above all — to thine ownself be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. (1.3.78-80) |
Appearance and reality
revenge
|
Polonius
|
Laertes
|
O, villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! (1.5.105)
|
Appearance and reality
|
Hamlet
|
soliloquy
|
Nay, but to live / In the rank sweat of
an enseamed bed, / Stew’d in corruption, honeying and makin love / Over the
nasty sty (s.4.91-2)
|
Moral corruption
|
Hamlet
|
Gertrude
|
The play's the thing,
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. (2.2.566) |
Action and inaction
revenge
|
Hamlet
|
soliloquy
|
What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her? (2.2518) |
Action and inaction
Appearance and reality
|
Hamlet
|
soliloquy
|
What a piece of work is a man!... the paragon of animals! And
yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? (2.2.286-92)
|
Appearance and reality
Revenge and death
mortality
|
Hamlet
|
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
|
To be, or not to be, —that is
the question:—
Whether 'tis nobler in the
mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of
outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea
of troubles,
And by opposing
end them? (3.158)
|
Revenge
Action and inaction
|
Hamlet
|
soliloquy
|
The play's the thing,
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. (3.2.566-8) |
Revenge
Action and inaction
Appearance and reality
|
Hamlet
|
soliloquy
|
Alas! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite
jest.... Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? (5.1.160-2)
|
Death
Moral corruption
mortality
|
Hamlet
|
Talking to the skull; Horatio is present
|
We defy augury; there's a
special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come;
if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the
readiness is all. (5.2.206-10)
|
Action and inaction
revenge
|
Hamlet
|
Horatio
|
Now cracks a noble heart.
Good-night, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. (5.2358-61) |
Mortality
revenge
|
Horatio
|
Hamlet
|
Claudius:
What dost thou mean by this?
Hamlet: Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar. (4.3.28) |
mortality
|
Hamlet
|
Claudius
|
Hamlet,
thou art slain; / No med’cine in the world can do thee good. ? In thee there
is not half an hour’s life./ The treacherous instrument is in thy hand /
Unbated and envenomed. The foul practice / Hath turned itself on me
(5.2.3-6-20).
|
Moral corruption
mortality
|
Laertes
|
Hamlet
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