maddygarrett

http://youtu.be/u-yLGIH7W9Y **HAMLET # 3****Act 3** 

QUEEN GERTRUDE What wilt thou do? thou wilt not murder me? Help, help, ho! LORD POLONIUS [Behind] What, ho! help, help, help! HAMLET [Drawing] How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead! Makes a pass through the arras LORD POLONIUS [Behind] O, I am slain! Falls and dies QUEEN GERTRUDE O me, what hast thou done? HAMLET Nay, I know not: Is it the king? QUEEN GERTRUDE O, what a rash and bloody deed is this! HAMLET A bloody deed! almost as bad, good mother, As kill a king, and marry with his brother. QUEEN GERTRUDE As kill a king! HAMLET Ay, lady, 'twas my word. Lifts up the array and discovers POLONIUS Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell! I took thee for thy better: take thy fortune; Thou find'st to be too busy is some danger. Leave wringing of your hands: peace! sit you down, And let me wring your heart; for so I shall, If it be made of penetrable stuff, If damned custom have not brass'd it so That it is proof and bulwark against sense. QUEEN GERTRUDE What have I done, that thou darest wag thy tongue In noise so rude against me? HAMLET Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty, Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love And sets a blister there, makes marriage-vows As false as dicers' oaths: O, such a deed As from the body of contraction plucks The very soul, and sweet religion makes A rhapsody of words: heaven's face doth glow: Yea, this solidity and compound mass, With tristful visage, as against the doom, Is thought-sick at the act.

This scene stands out to me because so much happens in it and it defines Hamlets insanity as real, because if he was 'pretending to be insane he wouldn't have just killed Polonius and had no regret after and continues to be acting mad at his mother. the essential question fits with this scene because Hamlet is supposedly acting insane, but he really actually seems to be insane, and the line is unclear between whether he actually is insane or is just pretending, but doing a good job at acting like he is..

**HAMLET: #2****Essential question:** **Where do we draw the line between sanity and insanity? To what extent can we trust the insane?**

//**Insanity**: condition of being insane ; aderangement of the mind Synonyms:dementia, lunacy,madness,craziness,mania, aberration. // So far, Ive noticed that almost everyone in the play seems to have some side of them that is insane. Hamlet, for pretending to be insane and contemplating if he should murder his uncle for what he did. Claudius for killing his brother to be king, and Queen Gertrude for marrying Claudius two months after her husband died,Marcellus and Bernardo for 'seeing the ghost'. Each person shows some form of insanity which makes me question if everyone in general is 'insane'? or if Insanity's definition is too broad, there really is no clear proof if someone is insane.

**Ghost** > Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing To what I shall unfold. **HAMLET** > Speak; I am bound to hear. **Ghost** > So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear. **HAMLET** > What? **Ghost** > I am thy father's spirit, Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine: But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list! If thou didst ever thy dear father love-- **HAMLET** > O God! **Ghost** > Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.

**HAMLET: # 1****Initial Response:** From what I have observed so far from the few scenes we've read in class and the plot overview of Hamlet there is a lot of repetition of Shakespeare’s writings in each of his plays. From the family feuds, the forbidden love, revenge, and the casual use of death there seems to be many patterns that are similar to Shakespeare's other work.



All of Shakespeare’s work seems to be written similarly, such as Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. Each play is about forbidden love and feuds of two families all ending with death. I honestly think that Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet are very similar just with a different plot twist. The way Shakespeare incorporates death into each play casually and effortlessly really makes me question HIS sanity which fits with the essential question: **Where do we draw the line between sanity and insanity? To what extent can we trust the insane?**Although Shakespeare uses death to dramatize the story I think that the way he uses it is questionable to his sanity along with the actions of each character in the story, like Hamlet contemplating to kill his Uncle as if that happens all the time. Hamlets mother Gertrude, having no remorse after her husbands death and immediately marrying his brother and of course Claudius for killing his brother in the first place.