Hamlet

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Hamlet

• Act V

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Act V Scene i

• Gravediggers
• Hamlet ponders that we all die the same in death
  regardless of position in life
• Recalls Yorick- famous skull scene
• Court jester, helped entertain and raise Hamlet
• See the funeral procession of Ophelia

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Act V Scene i

• Death of Ophelia
• Her obsequies have been as far enlargedAs we
  have warrantise her death was doubtfulAnd, but
  that great command o'ersways the order,She
  should in ground unsanctified have lodgedTill
  the last trumpet for charitable prayers,Shards,
  flints and pebbles should be thrown on herYet
  here she is allow'd her virgin crants,Her maiden
  strewments and the bringing homeOf bell and
  burial (V.i.216-224) pg. 130
• Laertes wants more funeral rites for Ophelia
• Suicide
• No religious burial
• Buried as a virgin
• True?
• Only because king ordered it

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Act V Scene i

• Death of Ophelia
• Gertrudes true feelings
• I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's
  wifeI thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd,
  sweet maid,And not have strew'd thy grave (V.i.
  135-137) pg. 130
• Hamlets true feelings
• He loves her more than Laertes
• Conceits to prove love
• Woot weep, woot fight, woot fast, woot tear
• thyself
• Woot drink up eisel, eat a crocodile?.. (V.i.
  264-269) pg. 132

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Act V Scene ii

• Fate or Plan?
• Up from my cabin,My sea-gown scarf'd about me,
  in the darkGroped I to find out them had my
  desire.Finger'd their packet, and in fine
  withdrewTo mine own room again making so
  bold,My fears forgetting manners, to
  unsealTheir grand commission where I found,
  Horatio,--O royal knavery!--an exact
  command,Larded with many several sorts of
  reasonsImporting Denmark's health and England's
  too,With, ho! such bugs and goblins in my
  life,That, on the supervise, no leisure
  bated,No, not to stay the grinding of the
  axe,My head should be struck off (V.ii.12-25)
  pg. 134

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Act V Scene ii

• Revenge against G R
• Used Hamlet to gain rank and favor from the court
  
• They caused their own demise
• An earnest conjuration from the king,As England
  was his faithful tributaryThat, on the view and
  knowing of these contents,Without debatement
  further, more or less,He should the bearers put
  to sudden death,Not shriving-time allow'd
  (V.ii.38-47) pg. 135

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Act V Scene ii

• Hamlets Madness and Apology
• Give me your pardon, sir I've done you
  wrongBut pardon't, as you are a gentleman.This
  presence knows,And you must needs have heard,
  how I am punish'dWith sore distraction. What I
  have done,That might your nature, honour and
  exceptionRoughly awake, I here proclaim was
  madness.Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes? Never
  HamletIf 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 wrong'dHis madness is poor
  Hamlet's enemy. (V.ii.204-222) pg. 141

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Act V Scene ii

• Blames his madness his love for Ophelia?
• He is a victim of his illness, his enemy is his
  illness
• Has he gone mad?
• Says he has also been wronged and seeks revenge

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Act V Scene ii

• Laertes must avenge his father and sisters
  deaths
• Must keep his honorable reputation
• I am satisfied in nature,Whose motive, in this
  case, should stir me mostTo my revenge but in
  my terms of honourI stand aloof and will no
  reconcilement,Till by some elder masters, of
  known honour,I have a voice and precedent of
  peace,To keep my name ungored. But till that
  time,I do receive your offer'd love like
  love,And will not wrong it (V.ii. 223-230) pg.
  141

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Act V Scene ii

• Gertrudes death
• I will, my lord I pray you, pardon me
  (V.ii.275) pg. 143
• Fate
• Change in feelings towards Claudius

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Act V Scene ii

• Laertes death
• It is here, Hamlet Hamlet, thou art slainNo
  medicine in the world can do thee goodIn thee
  there is not half an hour of lifeThe
  treacherous instrument is in thy hand,Unbated
  and envenom'd the foul practiseHath turn'd
  itself on me lo, here I lie,Never to rise again
  thy mother's poison'dI can no more the king,
  the king's to blame (V.ii. 296-303) pg. 145
• Realizes the truth too late
• Blames Claudius
• Still receives his vengeance

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Act V Scene ii

• Laertes death
• He is justly servedIt is a poison temper'd by
  himself.Exchange forgiveness with me, noble
  HamletMine and my father's death come not upon
  thee,Nor thine on me (V.ii.310-314) pg. 145
• No longer blames Hamlet

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Act V Scene ii

• Hamlets death
• As thou'rt a man,Give me the cup let go by
  heaven, I'll have't.O good Horatio, what a
  wounded name,Things standing thus unknown, shall
  live behind me!If thou didst ever hold me in thy
  heartAbsent thee from felicity awhile,And in
  this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,To tell
  my story (V.ii. 326-332) pg. 146
• Trusts Horatio to live and tell his story
• Wretched queen
• Still angry and disgusted with mother

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Act V Scene ii

• Hamlets death
• Wants the best for Denmark
• Fortinbras for king
• O, I die, HoratioThe potent poison quite
  o'er-crows my spiritI cannot live to hear the
  news from EnglandBut I do prophesy the election
  lightsOn Fortinbras he has my dying voiceSo
  tell him, with the occurrents, more and
  less,Which have solicited. The rest is silence
  (V.ii. 335-341) pg. 146-147

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Act V Scene ii

• Revenge
• Everyone achieves their revenge
• Hamlet
• Laertes
• Fortinbras
• Hamlet treated as a hero in death
• Tragic Hero
• Fatal Flaw?
• Indecision
• Inaction