Ophelia by the preraphaelite artist John Everett Millais
Learning standards: I can provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
I can determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
As we have a half day today, I am asking everyone to check the blog independently.
Please watch the video clip for Act IV, scene 7 See link below. (5 minutes)
BONUS 100 points: After you read the blog and watch the clip, send along an email or share through google docs (dolly.parker@rcsdk12.org) an observation re the video clip that clearly demonstrates you have watched the scene.
Claudius' plan to kill Hamlet; Ophelia's death
Claudius tells Laertes that Hamlet killed his father Polonius, but Claudius has "an exploit now ripe in [his] device / ...Under which [Hamlet] shall not choose but fail, [and] ...even his mother shall uncharge the practice / And call it accident" (IV.vii.64-68).
He then attempts to manipulate and guilt Laertes by asking, "Was your father dear to you / Or are you like he painting of a sorrow, / A face without a heart? (IV.vii.108-10).
King Claudius then shares his plan:
The King tells Laertes that he cannot harm the Prince directly, out of respect and concern for his beautiful Queen, who loves Hamlet above all else. Moreover, Claudius cannot enrage the people of Denmark, who adore the Prince and would surely rise up in protest. So the King proposes that they arrange a fencing match between Laertes and Hamlet, and that Hamlet, thinking it is for sport, will use a blunt sword, while Laertes will use his own military sword. To ensure Hamlet's death, Laertes will coat the tip with a poison "So mortal, that but dip a knife in it / Where it draws blood, no cataplasm so rare / ... can save the thing from death / That is but scratch'd withal" (4.7.142-45).
The King then suggests that a goblet full of poisoned wine be set out for Hamlet to drink if he becomes thirsty during the match. Suddenly, they hear noise outside the door. The Queen enters with the news that Ophelia has fallen off a willow tree branch and drowned. Laertes tries to fight his emotion, but storms out of the room. The King, worried that Laertes will act in haste and ruin the plan, rushes to follow him.
Vocabulary handed out on Friday, October 14...quiz on Friday, October 21.
Hamlet vocabulary 6 quiz on Friday, October 21
1. To abhor (verb)- to find repugnant,
very distasteful
2. gibe (noun)- an aggressive remark
3. imperious (adjective)- having or
showing superiority
4. to profane (verb)- to violate a
sacred place, person or language
5. requiem (noun)- song or hymn as a
memorial for a dead person
6. churlish (adjective)- having a bad
disposition
7. amity (noun)- friendship (note the opposite is enmity!)
8. perdition (noun)- the place or state
that one suffers eternal punishment
9. umbrage (noun)- a feeling of anger
caused by feeling offended
10.
infallible
(adjective)- incapable of failure
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