Wednesday, October 5 Hamlet Act III.i Hamlet's next soliloquy: To be or not to be .... and Ophelia

Learning Targets: I can analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text.

I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text.

Coming up: vocabulary quiz Hamlet 4 on tomorrow / Thursday.
In class: power point review of Hamlet vocab 4
              Watching summary of Act II
              Watching  Act III.i.: Hamlet's 3rd solioquy- "To be or not to be" Hamlet III.i-----Hamlet's To Be or Not to Be soliloquy
              Graphic organizer for Act III.i  

Hamlet Act II summary

Please turn to Act III.i in your text and follow along.
Accompanying graphic organizer....This will be collected at the beginning of class tomorrow/ Thursday.
Anyone who receives extended time, may turn it in by the end of the day to room 176.

Name ______________________Claudius worried / Ophelia rejected / Hamlet procrastinates

Note that if text is indicated, you must quote exactly as written to receive credit.

1.       Whilst Rosencrantz acknowledges to King Claudius that Hamlet is distracted, what does Guildenstern note about Hamlet’s behavior? (TEXT-III.i.7-8).

        2  What does Claudius hope by “seeing unseen” the interchange between Hamlet and Ophelia discover? TEXT-(III.i.36-37)

3.      Paraphrase these words spoken by Polonius.

‘Tis too much proved, that with devotion’s visage*                                              *visage =face

And pious action we do sugar o’er

The devil himself (III.i.47-49).

4.      From Hamlet’s soliloquy: What is Hamlet’s argument for suicide? TEXT (III.i.61-63)

5.      From Hamlet’s soliloquy: What is Hamlet’s argument against suicide? TEXT (III.i.66-67)

6.      What is the “undiscovered country” to which Hamlet refers? TEXT (III.i.79-80).

7.      Hamlet speaks harshly to Ophelia, denying his past affections (tenders) and telling her to “get thee to a nunnery”.  Read Hamlet’s words on lines 144 to 152, which are very misogynistic (vocabulary word this week). To whom do you think Hamlet is referring to here?

8.      King Claudius recognizes that towards Ophelia Hamlet’s “affections do not that way tend (III.i.165); rather Hamlet is a “danger”. What does Claudius suggest to rectify (fix) the situation?  (TEXT-III.i.172-3).