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Hamlet Act III sc iv lines32 onwards
- Hamlet, realising it is Polonius he has killed,
shows a distinct lack of sympathy - Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool,
farewell! - I took thee for thy better. Take thy
fortune. - Thou findest to be too busy is some danger.
- (lines 32-34)
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Hamlet Act III sc iv lines32 onwards
- think how this coldness is perceived by the
audience, especially when it is extended to his
mother - Leave wringing of your hands.
- (l.35)
- This imperative (order) is unsympathetic,
continued by the statement - let me wring your heart. For so I shall,
- If it be made of penetrable stuff,
- If damnèd custom have not brassed it so
- That it be proof and bulwark against sense.
- (l. 36-39)
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Hamlet Act III sc iv lines32 onwards
- The speech appears to be accompanied by Hamlet
guiding Gertrude to a seat dramatically, her
next words - What have I done that thou darest wag thy
tongue - In noise so rude against me?
- (l.40-41)
- would be spoken as she looked up at him does
this represent a plea? Does Shakespeare present
Gertrude as a more sympathetic character than
Claudius?
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Hamlet Act III sc iv lines32 onwards
- Hamlets response is to her marriage read
lines 42 Such an act to 52 (thought sick at
the act there seems to be blame for the
destruction of his own and Ophelias love - takes off the rose
- From the fair forehead of an innocent love
- And sets a blister there
- (lines 43-5)
- Prostitutes were branded with a hot iron that
left a blister behind.
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Hamlet Act III sc iv lines32 onwards
- Gertrudes reply to this is presented as
confused, but Hamlet responds with a painting
(counterfeit presentment) of the 2 brothers.
Directors have used miniatures sometimes Hamlet
wearing one and Gertrude the other otherwise,
large pictures can be used, but are rather
difficult to manoeuvre.
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Hamlet Act III sc iv lines32 onwards
- Old Hamlet is represented as having associations
with - Hyperion . Sun god
- Jove .. Supreme god (sky god Zeus)
- Mars . God of war
- Mercury .. God of swiftness/mediation
(messenger) - This is almost a creation of man story each god
giving something set his seal - In contrast, Claudius is presented as spreading
corruption (blasting) like one mildewed ear (of
wheat) spreading blight.
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Hamlet Act III sc iv lines32 onwards
- Implicit in Hamlets speech here is that
Gertrude should have been too old and wise to
allow a sexual urge to overcome judgement - You cannot call it love. For at your age
- The heyday in the blood is tame.
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Hamlet Act III sc iv lines32 onwards
- The speech continues to accuse Gertrude of
having her sense, apoplexed (paralysed) that
madness has enslaved sense that she has been
cozened tricked into making a bad choice
that all her senses have gone. Mention is made
of devil and hell these have mutinied
against her matrons bones, if that can happen,
then youths virtue will also melt like the wax
of a sealing stick.
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Hamlet Act III sc iv lines32 onwards
- Gertrude is overcome by this thou turnest
mine eyes into my very soul there there is a
stain that cannot be removed. - Hamlet cannot stop he refers to her living
- In the rank sweat of an enseamèd bed
- Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love
- Over the nasty sty
- (lines 92-95)
- Shakespeare again presents Hamlet as having an
aversion to the sexual liaison of Gertrude and
Hamlet. does this reveal Hamlets psychological
state?
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Hamlet Act III sc iv lines32 onwards
- Gertrude begs him to stop, but Hamlet continues
with accusations that Claudius is, A murderer
and a villain, a thief. - Look closely at the way Shakespeare has Gertrude
interject think of the way this could be
performed and the ways the sympathies of the
audience might be moved.
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Hamlet Act III sc iv lines32 onwards
- The dramatic tension in this scene is high, when
the ghost enters it is clear from Gertrudes,
hes mad that she cannot see it. The ghost
appeals to Hamlet to help her her mind is in
agony her fighting soul. - Gertrude sees Hamlet bend his eye to look at
what appears to be nothing and talk to
thincorporal air (empty air). This scene is
reminiscent of Macbeths vision of Banquos ghost
at the banquet.
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Hamlet Act III sc iv lines32 onwards
- Why does Shakespeare not have Gertrude see the
ghost? Is he attempting to now present Hamlet as
becoming insane? Yet the ghost speaks, so do the
audience assume that there is still a ghost, but
for some reason Gertrude is not allowed to see
it? What about the idea mentioned earlier in the
play that this could be a devil assuming the
shape of old Hamlet?
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Hamlet Act III sc iv lines32 onwards
- Hamlet denies madness, saying that his pulse
keeps the same time as hers, that he could repeat
word for word what was said, that she should not
lay unction - place ointment on her soul to
make herself feel better. - He uses the image of a garden once more that
she must not spread the compost on the weeds
she should admit wrong now, not continue to do it
and make everything worse.
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Hamlet Act III sc iv lines32 onwards
- Hamlet warns Gertrude not to go to Claudius
bed that night that until she repents he cannot
ask for her blessing (a son would normally ask
this on leaving) - Shakespeare seems to present Hamlet here as not
feeling especially guilty about the death of
Polonius, but feeling that heaven hath pleased
it so that he should be the instrument of
punishment as well as the deliverer.
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Hamlet Act III sc iv lines32 onwards
- the cruelto be kind statement seems to
indicate that his duty is to make her repent, but
Polonius death is only the beginning worse
is to come. - He warns her not to let Claudius tempt her again
to bed and get his secret that he is not mad -
out of her then she will be like the famous
ape this is a fable of an ape releasing birds
from a cage out of curiosity, then trying to
imitate them, so breaking his neck. The warning
is clear telling Claudius will bring her grief.
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Hamlet Act III sc iv lines32 onwards
- Hamlet tells Gertrude that he must go to
England, but does not trust Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern that they are meant to prepare the
way for his falling into a trap, but he wants
them, hoist with his own petard blown up with
their own bomb Hamlet is going to counter-attack
delve one yard below their mines/And blow them
at the moon.
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