Claudius stops the play
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.
Coming up: new vocabulary- Hamlet 5 (class handout / copy below); quiz on Friday, October 14
Due on Tuesday, October 11...thematic graphic organizer (class handout / copy below)
In class: vocabulary quiz 4
Listening to Act III.ii
Thematic graphic organizer. This is due on Tuesday, October 11. (class handout / copy below)
Act III. II
Name ______________________________
Theme exercise
Below are five themes that run
through the play. After having listened
to Act II.ii, read through the 9 plot summaries below and write out the theme or themes that
are applicable. (Do not number!)
This will help you when it comes
time to writing the final assessment.
Themes to consider:
1. appearance vs. reality
2. action and inaction
3. revenge / honor / religion
4. women
5. poison, corruption, death
1.
Hamlet lectures three of the players on how to act. His
lecture focuses on how to avoid overacting, suiting action to word and word to
action. They exit.
_________________________________________________________________________
2.
Hamlet has
already told Horatio what the Ghost said, and now reveals
his plan: the play to be put on will mirror the Ghosts' description
of Claudius's murder of Old Hamlet. If Claudius looks guilty while
watching it, then he is.
__________________________________________________________________________
3.
Claudius, Gertrude, Polonius, Ophelia,
and others arrive to watch the play. Hamlet tells Horatio he's
now going to act insane.
_________________________________________________________________________
4.
Claudius asks
how Hamlet is faring. Hamlet responds as if Claudius were using the
word "fare" to mean food, and says he's eating the air. Hamlet
mocks Polonius's attempts to act at university, harasses Ophelia with
sexual puns, and then makes bitter remarks about Gertrude for
marrying Claudius.
_________________________________________________________________________
5.
The players enter and
first act out a dumb show (a short silent play that shows what the longer play
is about). The players then begin to act the full play. As the plot becomes
clear, Gertrude and Claudius become uncomfortable. Hamlet
mocks them, while continuing to launch sexual puns at Ophelia. Claudius
asks the name of the play. Hamlet says, "The Mouse-trap."
_________________________________________________________________________
6.
When the villain in
the play pours poison into the king's ear, Claudius jumps from his
seat, calls for light, and rushes from the room.
_________________________________________________________________________
7.
Hamlet is
triumphant. He tells Horatio that this proves the Ghost was telling
the truth.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern enter
and say that his mother wants to see him. Hamlet agrees to go, but
furiously tells them they cannot "pluck out the heart of his mystery"
or play him like a flute.
_________________________________________________________________________
8.
Polonius enters,
repeating Gertrude's request to see him. Hamlet pretends to see
odd shapes in a non-existent cloud. Polonius also pretends to see the shapes.
_________________________________________________________________________
9.
All exit
but Hamlet, who says to himself that he could "drink hot blood"
(III.ii.360), but forces himself to remember not to hurt his mother.
_________________________________________________________________________
Hamlet vocabulary 5 quiz on Friday, October 14
1. discord (noun)- disagreement, lack of
harmony (My soul is full of discord and dismay.)
2. scourge (noun)- whip
3. garrison (noun); (also a verb- to garrison)-
the troops who maintain a fortified place
4. bestial (adjective)- lacking human
qualities
5. craven (adjective)- completely
lacking in courage
6. scruple (noun)- an ethical or moral
principle that inhibits action
7. conjecture (noun)- an hypothesis that
has been formed by speculating
8. to inter (verb)- to place in a grave
9. superfluous (adjective)- more than is
desired, needed or wanted
10.incensed (adjective)-angered by an unjust wrong.
No comments:
Post a Comment