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Hamlet Act 4 Scene 5

Hamlet Act 4 Scene 5. By: Hannah Brower and Yuzuka Ieta. Summary. Ophelia has gone mad with grief of her dead father Ophelia approaches Gertrude but speaks only in poems and songs

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Hamlet Act 4 Scene 5

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  1. Hamlet Act 4 Scene 5 By: Hannah Brower and YuzukaIeta

  2. Summary • Ophelia has gone mad with grief of her dead father • Ophelia approaches Gertrude but speaks only in poems and songs • Claudius enters and comments on Ophelia’s madness but also states that Laertes has secretly sailed back from France • Laertes enters, followed by a mob of commoners shouting that Laertes is to be king • Claudius tries to calm Laertes who is furious over his father’s death • Ophelia enters and sends Laertes into another fit of rage upon seeing his insane sister • Claudius says that he is not to blame for the death of Polonius, but that he can help Laertes seek revenge upon the proper person

  3. Sentence Structure

  4. Ophelia • Speaks in songs/poems • Shows she is mad • “How should I your true love know From another one? By his cockle hat and staff And his sandal shoon.” • Lines 23-26

  5. Laertes • Speaks in quick, short sentences • Shows his anger and short temper • “How came he dead? I’ll not be juggled with.” • Line 130

  6. Claudius • Speaks in iambic pentameter • Shows he is calm and has not changed his manner like the other characters have • “When sorrows come, the come not single spies…” • Line 77

  7. Gertrude • Sentences are long, but broken up with commas • Shows deep thinking but an underlying tone of worry • “To my sick soul, as sin’s true nature is, Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss. So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.” • Lines 17-20

  8. Literary Devices

  9. Pun • Sexual Pun “Let in the maid that out a maid Never departed more.” • Lines 54-55

  10. Hyperbole “O heat dry up my brains, tears seven times salt Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye!” • Lines 154-155

  11. Simile “O heavens, is’t possible a young maid’s wits Should be as mortal as an old man’s life?” • Lines 159-160

  12. Imagery • Visual: “ There’s rosemary… and there is pansies… There’s fennel for you and columbines. There's rue for you… There’s a daisy. I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died.” • Lines 177-180

  13. Clips • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfcsP-eKJF8 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a1ks-S4UNU

  14. Hamlet (1990) • Setting- quiet, outside • Lighting- dull, monochrome • Costumes- dirty, colorless Gives an impression of an extremely sad, gloomy, and almost fearful tone

  15. Hamlet (TV 2009) • Setting- small, closed space • Lighting- dark • Costumes- blacks and grays Gives it a tone of anger and crazed madness

  16. Hamlet (1996) • Setting- indoors, wide open (she projects herself and it echoes) • Lighting- Bright whites (hints at an insane asylum) • Costumes- Straight jacket Gives the tone of insanity and mocking happiness

  17. Activity! Everyone must take turns reading this passage and act it out in a way you think Ophelia would say it: “I hope all will be well. We must be patient, but I cannot choose but to weep to think they would lay him I’th’ cold ground. My brother shall know of it, and so I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my couch. Good night ladies, good night sweet ladies, good night, good night.” pg 175 (lines 68-72)

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