DRJ #4
Initial Reaction: This act 4 reminds me of the people with love. The luck of humans life. Like my grandpa, he wanted to stay and tell my uncle that his son wife cheated on him all his life, but he couldn’t. He pass away. The opposite of my auntie, she wanted to die because her husband and the second wife makes her live miserable. But every way she try to kill herself for some reason she couldn’t die. And Ophelia reminds me of the world who turn crazy after the love of her relatives or family is gone.
Character Analysis: Here I wanted to analysis the woman here, Ophelia and Gertrude. Both of these two woman are related to the protagonist; Hamlet, that also leads to fatal flaw. Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother the queen of Demark who marry Hamlet’s uncle, Claudius. Gertrude and Ophelia are weak because as for Gertrude she follows whatever Claudius says and Ophelia follows her father and Laertes. And in this act Ophelia is crazy after her father death. I think Gertrude is crazy also after the play and Hamlet talks to her about his father; she starts to felt the guilt in her.
Theme Analysis: Shakespeare intentionally use tone to show madness that drives the world insane. After the talk of Gertrude and Hamlet, she told Claudius that Hamlet was, “Mad as the sea and wind…” and accidentally “Whips out his rapier,” (4.1.7 & 10) and kill Polonius. This shows the tone of Hamlet going insane. He uses the line in act 3 “Dead for a ducat, dead!” (3.4.23), as I feel like Hamlet thought it was Claudius behind that arras because Hamlet was already mad and he just take that shot (kill it, kill it). There is madness toward Ophelia because after her father’s death she gone insane. She sing her madness out. Here seems like she was poisoned with words and that kills her. How we know her madness because she continues and she won’t let anyone interrupt her. She wants everyone to listen to her madness.
Monday, March 5, 2012
DRJ #3
Initial Reaction: In act 3, the character reminds me of the world; reality. Men and woman anticipate wrongly about themselves. Not showing their affection out and hiding it inside of what they really feel. One woman that does it all makes all woman one of them. Like how Hamlet says about woman “whore”. People taking revenge, my father had told me; there is no need to take revenge. Let God take care of it. Proving of their guilt is not necessary so let them suffer themselves. Even if we do not see it on our own eyes, the world have a big eye.
Character Analysis: Polonius is making himself a idiotic character in this act. He is also getting a lot of lame recommendation to the rest of the characters that is completely hilarious of himself. Especially when the play starts, he makes a fool out of himself. Polonius a man who always uses long speech which in the play, play his part that he talks a lot and he interfere the play just to say that that whoever that actor is playing is not that kind of person and so on.
Theme Analysis: Shakespeare uses expresses deception toward all the characters, especially toward Hamlet. In this act the deception starts off Claudius. A problem of still searching why Hamlet is feeling sad and then Claudius went on expressing his guilt over his wrong doing on a side “O heavy burden!” (3.1.55). His guilt of killing Hamlet’s father. At first Hamlet reveals his deceit to Horatio about taking revenge when he saw the ghost. Again in act 3 he did it again reveals his deceit to Horatio their “judgments join/In censure of his seeming” (3.2.79-80). Here they are watching over Claudius during the play to see if he is over reacting. In scene 3 Polonius deceive to Hamlet, “Behind the arras I‘ll convey myself/ To hear the process.” (3.3.), so he is secretly spying on them to know their business. This for Polonius foolish himself, he misleading himself to death here. Therefore a foreshadowing of Polonius’s death.
Initial Reaction: In act 3, the character reminds me of the world; reality. Men and woman anticipate wrongly about themselves. Not showing their affection out and hiding it inside of what they really feel. One woman that does it all makes all woman one of them. Like how Hamlet says about woman “whore”. People taking revenge, my father had told me; there is no need to take revenge. Let God take care of it. Proving of their guilt is not necessary so let them suffer themselves. Even if we do not see it on our own eyes, the world have a big eye.
Character Analysis: Polonius is making himself a idiotic character in this act. He is also getting a lot of lame recommendation to the rest of the characters that is completely hilarious of himself. Especially when the play starts, he makes a fool out of himself. Polonius a man who always uses long speech which in the play, play his part that he talks a lot and he interfere the play just to say that that whoever that actor is playing is not that kind of person and so on.
Theme Analysis: Shakespeare uses expresses deception toward all the characters, especially toward Hamlet. In this act the deception starts off Claudius. A problem of still searching why Hamlet is feeling sad and then Claudius went on expressing his guilt over his wrong doing on a side “O heavy burden!” (3.1.55). His guilt of killing Hamlet’s father. At first Hamlet reveals his deceit to Horatio about taking revenge when he saw the ghost. Again in act 3 he did it again reveals his deceit to Horatio their “judgments join/In censure of his seeming” (3.2.79-80). Here they are watching over Claudius during the play to see if he is over reacting. In scene 3 Polonius deceive to Hamlet, “Behind the arras I‘ll convey myself/ To hear the process.” (3.3.), so he is secretly spying on them to know their business. This for Polonius foolish himself, he misleading himself to death here. Therefore a foreshadowing of Polonius’s death.
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