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HAMLET ACT 1: SCENE 2

HAMLET ACT 1: SCENE 2. JUNIORS. Swbat identify the emerging conflict between characters. DO NOW HOMEWORK Re-read Act I, scene 2 Start to answer the questions on Act I sheet. CONFLICTS. Has anything happened in scene 1 to foreshadow a future conflict?. CHARACTERS FOR SCENE 2.

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HAMLET ACT 1: SCENE 2

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  1. HAMLETACT 1: SCENE 2 JUNIORS

  2. Swbat identify the emerging conflict between characters • DO NOW • HOMEWORK • Re-read Act I, scene 2 Start to answer the questions on Act I sheet.

  3. CONFLICTS • Has anything happened in scene 1 to foreshadow a future conflict?

  4. CHARACTERS FOR SCENE 2 • CLAUDIUS: The king of Denmark, Hamlet’s uncle. • GERTRUDE: The queen of Denmark, Hamlet’s mother, recently married to Claudius • HAMLET: The prince of Denmark, and a student at the University of Wittenberg. At the beginning of the play, Hamlet’s father, King Hamlet, has recently died, and his mother, Queen Gertrude, has married the new king, Hamlet’s uncle Claudius. • POLONIUS: The Lord Chamberlain of Claudius’s court, and the father of Laertes and Ophelia. • LAERTES: Polonius’s son and Ophelia’s brother, a young man who spends much of the play in France. • OPHELIA: Polonius’s daughter, a beautiful young woman with whom Hamlet has been in love. • VOLTEMAND: Courtiers whom Claudius sends to Norway to persuade the king to prevent Fortinbras from attacking. • CORNELIUS: Courtiers whom Claudius sends to Norway to persuade the king to prevent Fortinbras from attacking. • HORATIO: Hamlet’s close friend, who studied with the prince at the University of Wittenberg • MARCELLUS: The officers who first see the ghost walking the ramparts of Elsinore and who summon Horatio to witness it. Marcellus is present when Hamlet first encounters the ghost.

  5. AS WE READ… • TAKE NOTES ON THE CHARACTERS PARTS TODAY • CLAUDIUS: Chris/KYLE • CORNELIUS/VOLTEMAND: MARIA/KYRA • LAERTES: DANIEL/KARLEM • POLONIUS: LIAM/ANTHONY C • HAMLET: FRANKIE/SARAH • GERTRUDE: KELSEY/LA • HORATIO: JOCELYN/JAEL • MARCELLUS/BARNARDO: NICO/REYNA

  6. SOME IMPORTANT QUOTES.. • “..a little more than kin and less than kind” (I.ii.68). • “'Tis an unweeded garden. That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature. Possess it merely” (I.ii.137-139). • “Frailty thy name is woman”(I.ii.148).

  7. EXIT • What did we learn about the relationship between characters?

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