Hamlet:: thinking about questions of life and death
"...To sleep! Perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come."These lines again mark a transition in thinking. Hamlet is thinking aboutquestions of life and death. The lines quoted above is significant in thatthey remind the reader that nobody knows what happens after death. Thisshould then be enough of a deterrent for suicide.To Be or Not to Be (option #5): The speech struck me personally in that itprovides a consideration of the aspect of life and death from allperspectives. Hamlet as it were leaves not stone unturned in hisinvestigation of the significance of life.Scene II (option #1): In this scene Hamlet, under the guise of hismadness, goes further to determine the guilt of the Queen and her newhusband. He devises a play dramatizing the events as his father's ghostmade them clear to him. The reactions of the king and queen then reveal toHamlet that they are indeed guilty of the crime.Scene III (option #7): I am playing Hamlet. He is feeling so intenselynegative about his father's brother and the murder, that he will not takehis uncle's life while the latter is praying. He is afraid of sending him
Hamlet however will believe none of her pacifying words, since he alreadyknows that his mother is guilty. Hamlet is indignant and hurt that his mother couldhave committed such a horrendous act. Inorder to diminish his own wrongdoing, the King is attempting and succeedingto draw Laertes into a conspiracy in order to kill Hamlet for killingPolonius by mistake. I would like to ask him what exactly how he saw his plancoming to fruition at this stage. Hamlet is impressed by Fortinbras'army, and the fact that they are going to war for a cause in favor offalsehood. Act IV:Scene I (option #3): What confuses me in this scene is that Hamlet'smadness appears to have helped rather than hindered his mother's anduncle's cause. Ophelia seems to be driven by emotion rather than purpose, whichmay have costher life. All the previous actions perpetrated by thecharacters find their culmination here. In this way Shakespeare makes sense where Hamlet couldnot. Hamlet here continues his act of madness for the benefit of Rosencrantz andGuildenstern, and also indirectly accusing the king of the murder on hisfather. Scene VII (option #8): I would draw the King and Laertes; the king with acrown on his head and Laertes with a sword dripping with poison in one handand toxic cup in the other. Scene II (option #8): For this scene, I would draw Polonius lying deadwith birds feeding on him, while his soul looks on sadly from heaven. His mother and uncle die as revenge forHamlet's father.
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