Monday, October 3 Hamlet Act II, scene II, beginning with line 225 conversation Hamlet with Guildenstern and Rosencrantz

Hamlet with his friends Rosencrantz and Guidenstern\

Learning targets: I can cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful.

Coming up: Wednesday- power point review for Hamlet vocabulary 4  (copy of words passed out last Friday below)
                     Thursday, Hamlet vocabulary 4 quiz

Today's class: the graphic organizer handed out by Mr. Clarkin on Friday is due now! This is the exchange between Polonius and Hamlet in Act Two, Scene two, which focused on Polonius's asides. (II.ii.167-219). This is the exchange between Polonius and Hamlet. Note that if you did not have a legal absence, this is due at the beginning of the class tomorrow. I've included a copy below.

Take out your Hamlet text and put in on your desk. No, you may not leave the room to get it. Zero or 100.

In class review of Polonius's conversation with Hamlet from Friday. (class handout / copy below).
              Hamlet text check
              Listening to the conversation between Hamlet and his two school friends Rosencrantz and Guidenstern. When you have finished the questions, turn to II.ii.225.
(recording 6:52)
               Look over the following:

 Please note:
 1. At the beginning the bawdy (dealing with sexual matters in a comical way)banter amongst the friends. What's the purpose this?

2. Why does Hamlet refer to Denmark as a prison?

3. Think about this statement made by Hamlet: "There is nothing either good or bad that thinking makes it so" (II.ii.253-4).  What does this mean?

4. Think about this statement made by Hamlet: "I could be bounded in a nut shell and count myself a king of infinite space" (II.ii.258-9). How is this possible? Explain.

5) What does Hamlet mean when he says: "I am mad but north- northwest: when the / wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw" (II.ii.386-87). Explain this metaphor.

Hamlet Act II.ii Name ___________________________      review of Polonius’ and Hamlet’s conversation.

Please answer the following:

Please answer the following questions from the text. 

A. Polonius: Do you know me, my lord.

     Hamlet:   Excellent well. You are a fishmonger?

 Question 1: Why does Hamlet call Polonius a fishmonger?

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B. Polonius: What is the matter my lord?

    Hamlet:    Between who?

    Polonius:  I mean the matter that you read, my lord.

Question 2:   What is the pun in the above exchange. Explain.

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C. Polonius: [aside] Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

  Question 3: Why does Polonius use an aside here?

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  Question 4: What does Polonius mean by this statement?

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Hamlet vocabulary 4  list; quiz on Thursday, Oct 6

1. remembrance  (noun) –greeting or gift recalling friendship or affection                   
2.  origin  (noun)- the point or place where something begins                                
3. tedious  (adjective)- lacking in mental interest, boring                                
4.  to indict (verb)- to accuse of a crime                             
5.  to devise –(verb)- to create a plan                              
6.  to pester – (verb)-to annoy someone                             
7.  misogynistic-(adjective)-  having a derogatory attitude towards women                  
8.  torment –(noun) or to torment (verb)- having or creating an intense feeling of pain                            
9. lunacy       (noun)- a state of senseless behavior                              
10. potent (adjective)- having force or authority 
    Two more challenging bonus questions follow.

    Text	Questions
    Enter HAMLET, reading POLONIUS How does my good Lord Hamlet? HAMLET Well, God-a-mercy. LORD POLONIUS Do you know me, my lord? HAMLET Excellent well; you are a fishmonger. LORD POLONIUS Not I, my lord. HAMLET Then I would you were so honest a man. LORD POLONIUS Honest, my lord! HAMLET Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. LORD POLONIUS That's very true, my lord. HAMLET For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion,--Have you a daughter? LORD POLONIUS I have, my lord. HAMLET Let her not walk i' the sun: conception is a blessing: but not as your daughter may conceive. Friend, look to '
    LORD POLONIUS [Aside] How say you by that? Still harping on my daughter: yet he knew me not at first; he said I was a fishmonger: he is far gone, far gone: and truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for love; very near this. I'll speak to him again.	What does Polonius suspect is wrong with Hamlet, and what does he suspect is the cause?
    -What do you read, my lord? HAMLET Words, words, words. LORD POLONIUS What is the matter, my lord? HAMLET Between who? LORD POLONIUS I mean, the matter that you read, my lord. HAMLET Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams: all which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down, for yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab you could go backward.
    LORD POLONIUS [Aside] Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.	What does Polonius mean by “there be method in” Hamlet’s madness?
    Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET Into my grave. LORD POLONIUS Indeed, that is out o' the air.
    [Aside] How pregnant sometimes his replies are! a happiness that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of. I will leave him, and suddenly contrive the means of meeting between him and my daughter.	What does Polonius intend to do next?
    --My honourable lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you. HAMLET You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life. ENTER GUILDENSTERN AND ROSENCRANTZ LORD POLONIUS Fare you well, my lord. HAMLET: These tedious old fools! LORD POLONIUS You go to seek the Lord Hamelet? There he is. ROSENCRANTZ: [To Polonius] God save you, sir!	Bonus 1: Some sources label Hamlet's final line in this selection is an aside, others do not. Why do you suppose that is? Hint: Imagine what is happening on stage!

    
    
    Bonus 2: What is notably different about the section of the text from 171-558?
                     Hint: Look at the text before and after the section running from 171 to 558 in your text!                         
11.    Read the selected passage. Answer the three questions that appear in the right column.