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.