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Give me your pardon, sir. I’ve done you wrong.

But pardon ’t, as you are a gentleman.

This presence knows,

And you must needs have heard, how I am punished

With sore distraction. What I have done,

That might your nature, honor, and exception

Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness.

Was ’t Hamlet wronged Laertes? Never Hamlet.

If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away,

And when he’s not himself does wrong Laertes,

Then Hamlet does it not. Hamlet denies it.

Who does it, then? His madness. If’t be so,

Hamlet is of the faction that is wronged.

His madness is poor Hamlet’s enemy.

V. II. 220

Does it not, think thee, stand me now upon -

He that hath killed my king and whored my mother,

Popped in between th' election and my hopes,

Thrown out his angle for my proper life

(And with such cozenage!) - is't not perfect conscience

To quit him with this arm? And is't not to be damned

to let this canker of our nature come

In further evil?

V. I. 63-70

Hamlet Act 5

Feminism

Post-Structuralism

ACTIVITY TIME!

  • Is Claudius actually the "bad guy"?

  • If you were in Claudius's position, what would YOU do?
  • females are portrayed as weak, unloyal human beings with NO power

  • Gertrude cannot act out of her own will.
  • When she does for the first time....she dies

No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither,

with modesty enough and likelihood to lead it, as

thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander

returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth

we make loam; and why of that loam, whereto he

was converted might they not stop a beer barrel?

Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,

Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.

O, that that earth which kept the world in awe

Should patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw!

V. I. 201-210

Alas, poor Yorick! I

knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most

excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a

thousand times, and now, how abhorred in

my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those

lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. —Where be

your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? Your

flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table

on a roar? Not one now to mock your own grinning?

Quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady’s chamber,

and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor

she must come. Make her laugh at that.

V. I. 178-189

What do the quotes tell us?

  • Yorick's skull is a reminder of death
  • no matter who we are or how great we are, everyone will always face death & will become nothing more than dust
  • A quote by Hamlet when he discovers a skull of a former court jester, Yorick.
  • Hamlet states that he knew Yorick very well.

What does this quote tell us?

Mortality

Madness

  • If your madness caused you to act in a certain way, are you responsible for it?

OR

  • Hamlet may not be mad

Literary Criticism

Major Themes

Marxism

Structuralism

  • binary opposites
  • "3"
  • tragedy

"Is she to be buried in Christian burial when she willfully seeks her own salvation?"

V. I. 1-2

"Dost know this water-fly?" - V. II. 82-83

  • Hamlet is all about class structure
  • rich people get to "die" differently

"I am justly killed with mine own treachery."

V. II. 300

  • Hamlet fulfills his revenge & kills Claudius
  • Laertes successfully kills Hamlet
  • Fortinbras takes over the throne of Denmark

Revenge

What is the significance of this quote?

It reminds the readers the importance of Hamlet's revenge on Claudius.

Significant Quotes

Discussion Questions

I loved Ophelia; forty thousand brothers

Could not, with all their quantity of love,

Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?

Not a whit; we defy augury: there's a special

providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis

not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it

be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since

no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave

betimes? Let be.

Do you think Gertrude knew the drink was poisoned?

  • first time Hamlet confesses his love towards Ophelia
  • shows a "changed" Hamlet

Why do you think Hamlet jumped into Ophelia's grave and wrestled with Laertes?

Did Hamlet actually love Ophelia?

Is the ghost a devil or the King?

Is Hamlet actually mad?

HORATIO: So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to't.

HAMLET: Why, man, they did make love to this employment;

They are not near my conscience; their defeat

Does by their own insinuation grow:

'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes

Between the pass and fell incensed points

Of mighty opposites.

  • introduced to Hamlet's "evil" side
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