Friday, November 7, 2014

Hamlet Act 2

Hamlet
- By indirections find directions out 
- Hamlet is acting weird
- Claudius and Polonius are trying to get people to "comfort" Hamlet but they really just want to get information from him 
- brevity is the soul of wit
- Though this be madness, yet there is method in't 
- For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
- What a piece of work is a man! 
- Hamlet knows what Rosencrantz and Guildensern are trying to do
- Hamlet is acting "sort of mad" to test them so they will report it 
- Hamlet is changing the play 
- the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King 
Ending Hamlet soliloquy 
- starting to beat himself up
- comparing himself to the actor with his life
- Hamlet's situation is real while the actors isn't 
- The play within the play 
- He wants to make a play about his life and his fathers death to make Claudius and Gertrude guilty 
- Trying to get Claudius and Gertrude to reveal themselves not him revealing them 

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