(Ferris Bueller's Day Off allusion?)
Choose 20-30 consecutive lines of either Act I or II that
you feel are important to what we've read so far (Hamlet's first (I.ii) and
second (II.ii) soliloquy are off limits, though). These lines can come from one
character's speech or consist of dialogue. Claim your lines on the blog, please.
(Only one person per scene--first come, first serve.)
When you claim your excerpt, please tell me the act,
scene, and line numbers. Also, our books
may not label the lines in the exact same way, so could you tell me something
like: “Starts when Claudius says, ‘Corruption, schmoruption…it’s all worth it,’
and goes until Hamlet says, ‘Hey, my uncle’s kind of a jerky-pants.”’
Now that you have some lines, dissect them: what can you pull from them? Consider,
for example, the content, characters involved and how they’re characterized, diction,
syntax, tone, structure, stage directions (explicit or implied), relationship
to themes of the play, the atmosphere of the scene and act in which they’re
housed, any of our research (from the Norton’s introduction to the essay on
tragedy to the Johnston lecture)…the list goes on.
On Wednesday and Thursday, you’ll lead a discussion on your
lines and explain their importance to us. You can have whatever notes with you
that you feel that you need, but I will make a clean copy of them for you to
put on the projector.
If you have any questions, please let me know!
Act 1 Scene 2
ReplyDeleteWhen Hamlet is talking to the king and queen. It starts with the King's "Take thy fair hour, Laertes" till when the king says "That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound"
And BAM This girl is first. El Smashe
act I scene V begins when the ghost starts talking to Hamlet about his murderer "Speak i am bound to hear" until the ghost reiderates the story "I find thee apt"
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Act II Scene 2
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From where Hamlet makes his Fortune pun and asks what news of the world to Rosencratz to where Hamlet says "For, by may fay, I cannot/ reason."
Act 1 Scene 1
ReplyDeleteLines 128 to 148
From "But soft..." to "And our vain blows malicious mockery."
Okay, so I'm late to the party, but I'm doing Hamlet's little soliloquy from Act 1 Scene 4 where he starts by saying "Ay marry is't..." To his own scandal..."
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