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Aim: What is the meaning of Hamlet’s most famous soliloquy?

Aim: What is the meaning of Hamlet’s most famous soliloquy?. Do Now: Finish up yesterday’s work on Hamlet’s 2 nd Soliloquy in 3 shifts. Who would you cast as your Hamlet?

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Aim: What is the meaning of Hamlet’s most famous soliloquy?

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  1. Aim: What is the meaning of Hamlet’s most famous soliloquy? Do Now: Finish up yesterday’s work on Hamlet’s 2nd Soliloquy in 3 shifts. Who would you cast as your Hamlet? HW: Read Act 3 Scene 2. Does Hamlet’s play reveal Claudius’ guilt? Provide evidence of your answer. What does this mean for Hamlet?

  2. TO BE, OR NOT TO BE, THAT IS THE QUESTION • If you follow Hamlet's speech carefully, you'll notice that his notions of "being" and "not being" are rather complex. He doesn't simply ask whether life or death is preferable; it's hard to clearly distinguish the two—"being" comes to look a lot like "not being," and vice versa. • To be, in Hamlet's eyes, is a passive state, to "suffer" outrageous fortune's blows, while not being is the action of opposing those blows. • Living is, in effect, a kind of slow death, a submission to fortune's power. On the other hand, death is initiated by a life of action, rushing armed against a sea of troubles—a pretty hopeless project, if you think about it.

  3. TO SLEEP, PERCHANCE TO DREAM • Hamlet tries to take comfort in the idea that death is really "no more" than a kind of sleep, with the advantage of one's never having to get up in the morning. This is a "consummation"—a completion or perfection—"devoutly to be wish'd," or piously prayed for. • What disturbs Hamlet, however, is that if death is a kind of sleep, then it might entail its own dreams, which would become a new life—these dreams are the hereafter, and the hereafter is a frightening unknown.

  4. To sum it up…

  5. Famous Speech • For centuries, actors have been reciting Hamlet’s famous speech. It has been performed in a variety of different ways. How would you like to see it performed? What would be the best modern-day version of this speech that would appeal to readers today?

  6. Get thee to a nunnery • Hamlet tells Ophelia that he did love her once. Did he mean that? • Why does he take it back? • Is Hamlet just playing with Ophelia here to further act crazy or is Hamlet really starting to lose it, his true feelings for Ophelia, his mother, his uncle, his dead father finally becoming all too much?

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