DRJ #2

Initial Reaction: Throughout Act 2 is about trusting friends because everyone trying to get close to Hamlet hoping he’ll speak his words out but he won’t. So, Polonius remind me of friends that act like they wanted to be your best friend for now just to know about your life or what you’re thinking right now. I can feel Hamlet; there is only one true friend that we can only trust.  

Character Analysis: Polonius a person who is always wrong with his conclusions. He is not a protagonist or the main character in this act but he is a close friend to the protagonist uncle. In this act we not know much about him. But Shakespeare intention was to cause danger to himself because since he is a message to the king which is Hamlet’s uncle, Claudius, and Hamlet. He think he knows the reason why Hamlet is the way he is because Hamlet and his daughter Ophelia are in love.

Theme Analysis: In Act 2 the author demonstrate omniscient to show loyalty in the character of Polonius. In Claudius line he says to Polonius that he “As a man faithful and honorable.” (2.2.131), here Claudius show that he trust Polonius. Polonius assume that he knows it all of how Hamlet feel and what cause him to be like that. In this case the King is depending on Polonius. He hopes Polonius knows what it is and found the situation and tell him everything.      

DRJ #1 

Initial Reaction: This drama story is perfect for my Cousin Sandy’s life even if she’s a girl in this case. Sandy connects to Hamlet the protagonist. Hamlet real father reminds me of my aunt, Sandy’s mother who is no longer here with us. Claudius and Gertrude, both remind me of my aunt’s niece and her husband. My aunt dies of sickness. The one who cause her sickness was her husband and her own blood niece.

Character Analysis: Claudius, a man who steal his own brother wife because he wanted to rule the kingdom and a man who is the murder of the protagonist father. Shakespeare intentionally use Claudius as in evil who cause war with his own nephew the main character, Hamlet who is searching for whom was the one who murder his real father. A supporting character for Claudius is Polonius who was use as foil to oppose and help stalk Claudius’s nephew, who is now his son to see what he is up to.

Theme Analysis: In this Act 1 I found two themes. Shakespeare uses imagery to synthesize both suicide and evil/good or hell/heaven in this act. Hamlet say “…too sullied flesh would melt/ Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew/ or that the Everlasting had not fixed/ His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter!” (1.2.129-132). Hamlet is using kinetic of motion about his father who recently pass away a month ago. I think Hamlet is talking about death here because he talks about his skin how he wanted it to fly away in the air or wondering why isn’t God doing anything about it (suicide). The other quote I found for the theme for evil/good or hell/heaven was “Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned/ Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell/ Be thy intents wicked or chartable/ Thou comest in such a questionable shape” (1.4.43-46). Here Hamlet is using character study to describe the ghost and structure of where he was from, how come he is there. Did he come here for good or bad? So is basically Hamlet is asking question among himself but actually to the ghost.     

THESIS #2:
Chopin intentionally showed the difficulty representative parts that not all “men and women” in this life lived in “joy”. The elements that Chopin shows indeed step by step of Louis situation from “love” to “dead” to “ill” which she assume “joy”.

SSJR #2 - Colette

Initial Personal Reaction:
“The Hand” makes me feel like I need to be aware even if I know my husband for a year and six months. Elements that caught my attention to the story was “kidnapping, nail with pink varnish” and “monstrous hand” something horrible for me as a young girl. Right now, I’m trying not to think about the negative, but at the same time beware of my husband “hand”. even if he loves me, I never know in the future he might lean his hand on me. Scary.

Literally Element/Thematic Analysis:
The author intent of using foil between a specific hand holds a significance of a person life. Just a specific hand, but that specific hand create meaning include nature. The uses of irony a hand that is evil and a hand making loud sound which shows a person personalities. Even when looking at a person by judgment (they look nice, cute and etc…); but really they are different from the inside. What the narrative point out behind the story describing the husband upper body (face that is nice) and the middle body (“the hand”) changes the way she sees.

Questions/Comments:
When I read this short story I was not into it. And its weird because he wear pink polish on his nail. What do you think about the story, did you like it or not?