Hamlet - Act 3 Scene 1
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- Hamlet - Act 3 Scene 1
- "With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?"
- Development - No longer H's transformation
- H is getting more and more extreme - C is losing patience
- Increasing hostility, animosity and suspicions
- H is getting more and more extreme - C is losing patience
- Development - No longer H's transformation
- Claudius removes Gertrude from the situation
- Thinks that she will be too emotive
- Knows it's dodgy - doubt about his behaviour
- "Lawful espials"
- Policy of surveillance embedded in society
- "I shall obey you"
- Sounds like Opheila - even the older women
- "So shall I hope your virtues will bring him to his wonted way again, to both your honours"
- Passive / Submissive
- Genuinly cares / affection
- Hopes it's Ophelia's beauty not her own
- "devotion's visage"
- Clever about the disguise
- Disguising - reminiscient of humanity and the whole state
- "To die, to sleep"
- Fails to comfront the reality of suicide
- Reflects the old King's murder
- A sense of separation from his sense of self and wholeness
- I, my, me - missing from the speech
- Intensity is taken away - distant and impersonal and general - less about a single mans defeat but a generalisation
- Hamlet's speech seems to make suicide more palatable, mulling over taking his and C's lives
- The speech also seems to be aware of the workings of the court suspects they might be spying
- "Get thee to a nunnery"
- Nunnery could be to protect her from the manipulation of the court
- Resentful to women - Ophelia - Breeding sinners by creating life
- Raises questions about O's honesty, chastity and virginity
- She's brazen and should learn morals
- Raises questions about O's honesty, chastity and virginity
- Nunnery can be a brothel
- "what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!... Th'expectancy and rose of the fair state"
- Insight into H's actual worth - what he was like before - Heightens the sense of tragedy - Reneissance model of the Elizabethan dream
- What Hamlet was was idea, he was always observed and pressured
- Insight into H's actual worth - what he was like before - Heightens the sense of tragedy - Reneissance model of the Elizabethan dream
- "something in his soul"
- Slef refelction- Conscience is full of fears or becuase she's a woman
- Closed in his thinking - doesn't want O's opinion
- Slef refelction- Conscience is full of fears or becuase she's a woman
- "With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?"
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