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Hamlet: Religion
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Religion
Presented by KC and Chantelle
religion in hamlet
- Repeating imagery and quotes throughout the play
- question about religion and the afterlife
- A conflict within the play
Affects many decisions
affects character emotions and reactions
provides a motive to do and not do certain things
Qu0te #1
"Well, God'ield you! They say the owl was a baker's daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be. - God be at your table!" (Act 4. 5. 42-43)
Qu0te #1
Speaker: Ophelia
Context and Analysis
- An allusion
- Old legend of a baker's daughter
- Refrences to Ophelia's love for Hamlet
- Refrences to how Laertes and Polonius affected Ophelia
- Act of denying Christ
Images
Images
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfcsP-eKJF8
Quote # 2
""O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon't, A brother's murder."
(Act 3. 3. 38-39)
Speaker: Claudius
Context and analysis
- Claudius' soliloquy
- Allusion to the biblical story of Cain and Abel
- Compares the death of Hamlet Senior to the death of Abel.
- Shows Claudius' guilt
Images
Images
Cain in the act of killing Abel
Claudius killing Hamlet senior
Quote #3
"Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me." (Act 3. 1. 120-121)
Speaker: Hamlet
Context and analysis
- A nunnery is a convent
- Hamlet tells Ophelia to go to a nunnery
- Influenced by his anger and hatred towards women and their unfaithfulness
IMAGES
IMAGES
A nunnery in the late Middle Ages
Hamlet telling Ophelia to go to a nunnery
Quote # 4
"I am thy father's spirit,
Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away." (Act 1. 5. 9-13)
Quote # 4
Speaker: Ghost
Context and analysis
- The ghost (Hamlet senior) asks Hamlet to avenge his death
- The ghost Alludes to himself being in purgatory
- Purgatory is the in between stage of heaven and hell
Description of Purgatory
"I am forbid to tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,Thy knotted and combinèd locks to part and each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fearful porpentine." (Act 1. 5. 13-20)
IMAGES
IMAGES
The ghost talking to Hamlet
Pia Distefano's painting of purgatory
Quote #5
"To be, or not to be? That is the question—
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And, by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep—
No more—and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished! To die, to sleep.
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life." (Act 3. 1. 57-70)
Speaker: Hamlet
Context and Analysis
- Hamlet's famous soliloquy
- Hamlet contemplates about suicide
- Represents indecision and question about religion and the afterlife
- He is afraid of the end result
Images
Images
Hamlet contemplating about suicide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf2TpWsPvgI
Quote # 6
" O Jephthah; judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou!"
(Act 2. 2. 400-4001)
Quote # 6
Speaker: Hamlet
Context and analysis
- Alludes to Jephthah a biblical reference
- Hamlet compares Polonius to Jephthah
- Shows the relationship between Ophelia and Polonius
- Foreshadows Ophelia's suicide
IMAGES
IMAGES
Ophelia's tragic death
Jephthah's daughter walking in and sacrificing herself for her father