Chelsea+Kitchener

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Post Four:

2/18/12 4:46 PM

Well...the play has ended and everyone has died. Not much of a surprise. Hamlet finally avenged his father's death (at the right time, apparently) and Claudius' evils were exposed. Even though everyone died, in a strange way, it was a happy ending. All the secrets came out and everyone knew the truth, for the most part.



When we did the fever chart on a specific character, my group was supposed to track the sanity of Hamlet. In the beginning it was a little difficult, because I have always believed Hamlet to be sane through the entirety of the play. However, by finishing the fever chart I did realize he went a little crazy (but not fully insane) in the time period surrounding the Mousetrap. In the end though, we all agreed that Hamlet's insanity level was at the very bottom. He was unusually calm, logical, and completely sane when he died.



He hath borne me on his back a thousand times, and now,

how abhorred in my imagination it is!

My gorge rises at it.

Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.

Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs?

Your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?

I really liked it when Hamlet reminisced about his past with Yorick. In these lines, Hamlet seems very upset about Yorick's death, and it is obvious that he was an important part of Hamlet's childhood. It is an interesting side of Hamlet that we don't ever see. He is happy for a brief moment while remembering the good times years ago. While, most of the play consists of him angry, sad, depressed, crazy, and a variety of other mental states.

Post Three:

2/11/12 <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 23px;">1:09 PM

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I feel like people are putting to much pressure on Hamlet. Considering all the things he has had to __deal__ with in the past few months, its no wonder he is going crazy, whether it is real or fake. His father just died, two months later his mom married his uncle, now he is seeing his dead father’s ghost and his father is telling him to kill his uncle. If any ONE of these things happened to me I would go crazy too, and Hamlet has to __deal with__ all four. Oh and he just killed his girlfriends dad and his girlfriend just drowned. I don’t think anyone would disagree that Hamlet has a pretty messed up and stressful life.

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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This all relates to the question of whether or not Hamlet really is insane or not. I still believe that he is not insane, but he is just a someone who is having to __deal with__ a lot in a short amount of time and is having a little bit of trouble holding it all together. He doesn’t want to let anyone down and is trying to please too many people at one time.



<span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">No more—and by a sleep to say we end

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The heart-ache and the thousand natural __shocks__

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">That flesh is heir

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I think this passage from Hamlets To Be, or Not To Be soliloquy is notable because it really makes the reader imagine how he feels. By describing life as a “thousand natural shocks” he expresses how much emotional pain he really is in. He makes death seem very peaceful, just like sleeping, as an escape from the “heart-ache” and shocks.

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">2/1/2012 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">12:27 AM

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">To me Hamlet seems to be having the typical teenage response to this whole situation. No teenager wants their <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> __mom__ remarrying so quickly after a fathers death, no matter who the guy is. Within his soliloquy he gets very angry toward his mom when he exclaims " O, God! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|a beast, that wants discourse of reason] <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">, Would have mourn'd longer." Hamlet is meaning that even an animal would have mourned a death longer than she did. To me, when teenagers get angry they seem to say things they don't actually mean. I think this may be of similar case with his mother. He his saying cruel things, such as her being weak, that he may or may not actually believe to be true.



<span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How weary, stale, [|flat] and unprofitable,

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Seem to me all the uses of this world!

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an [|unweeded garden] ,

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">That grows to __seed__; things rank and gross <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|in nature]

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> [| Possess it merely].

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I think his teenage attitude is also shown in this passage. He is being overly dramatic when he declares that he disapproves of this chaotic world and thinks everything just decays and dies. It is just interesting to note his dramatic tone because it could be applied to many other parts of his soliloquy.

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">At the end he says "But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue." I think it shows some constraint within Hamlet, and thus some sanity. He knows that he cannot speak his __mind__ and is doing his __best__ to follow his mothers wishes. At this point in time, I consider Hamlet to be a relatively sane guy, who just happens to be stressed over his fathers recent death.



<span style="color: #3f3a37; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Post __One__:

<span style="color: #3f3a37; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1/27/2012 <span style="color: #3f3a37; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4:15 PM

<span style="color: #3f3a37; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Just after reading the beginning of Hamlet the characters reactions toward seeing the __ghost__ are interesting. They do not seem afraid of the King's __ghost__, but are more interested as to why he is there. Marcellus and Horatio decide to tell Hamlet about his father's __ghost__ once they have convinced themselves that the __ghost__ is real. I am curious whether or not this reaction toward the ghost will change or if all the characters will have the same response.

<span style="color: #3f3a37; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">I just liked this comic because it is the exact same thing that Marcellus realizes when he threatens to __hit__ the ghost with his spear.

<span style="color: #3f3a37; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Period 3's Essential __Question__ closely relates to this scene:

<span style="color: #3f3a37; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Where do we draw the line between sanity and insanity? To what extent do we trust the insane?

<span style="color: #3f3a37; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Whether or not the ghost is real, and whether or not Marcellus and Horatio really see the King's ghost directly relates to our __question__. Should we believe them? Do they really see the ghost? If the ghost is simply a figure of their imaginations, should we immediately classify them as insane? I believe these __questions__ will become more evident within the play as they inform Hamlet of his father's ghost and we see what Hamlet's response is.

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 * <span style="color: #3f3a37; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Passage: **

<span style="color: #3f3a37; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We do it wrong, being so majestical,

<span style="color: #3f3a37; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">To __offer__ it the show of violence;

<span style="color: #3f3a37; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">For it is, as the __air__, invulnerable,

<span style="color: #3f3a37; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And our vain blows malicious mockery.

<span style="color: #3f3a37; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I really like this passage from the play because I find it to be kind of __funny__. It makes me __imagine__ Marcellus trying to spear the ghost and completely failing...because it is a ghost, they are just __air__. I think Marcellus' realization adds to the humorous tone of the passage.