Sunday, March 4, 2012
DRJ#4
DRJ# 4
Ac4 4 is when things start to get good the lies and trickery catch up to Polonius and he gets killed. I can’t think of anyone this reminds me of except human nature itself. The nature of people deceiving others for their own gain is just a part of being human.
Ophelia in act 4 is a very sad and depressed girl which seems to gone mad or maybe just a little crazier than everybody else. Unlike her brother see does not seek revenge on hamlet possibly because she is likely pregnant with Hamlets child. Ironically is she is pregnant that she must of not committed suicide like it appears.
Act 5 has a strong setting of death from the use of Shakespeare’s gravedigger and skull of the “kings jester”(160). The talk of death and the rotting and decaying of body parts is preparing the audience for the final showdown. In the last pages of act 5 there isn’t much talk about rotting corpses but I think the dialog with the gravedigger makes the audience think not to many people are going to be alive when all this drama is over.
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Yeah, there was alot of foreshadowing in this...kind of predicting the outcome.
ReplyDeleteI definitely felt bad for Ophelia. She was a smart and beautiful girl who had feelings for Hamlet and the way Hamlet acted upset her. To top it off the death of her father made her absolutely insane. And it was Hamlet who killed Polonius. I think this made Ophelia realize that everyone is crazy, because she knew of all the sins they committed when she passed out those flowers. I don't blame her that she went crazy. It must have hurt to see her father dead and her love one gone.
ReplyDeleteThe jokes the grave diggers make in the beginning were confusing at first but I realized it was setting up the next act. Everyone was gonna die and there was a lot of imagery of skulls and graves to foreshadow it.
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DeleteI also thought this was the juicy part. Lots of foreshadowing and sub plots going on. It is like everybody wants to kill somebody.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with the theme of deceiving others for their own gain, but I don't think that Ophelia is going crazy at all. In fact i think she is sane. We see this when she hands out the truth with the flowers to Gertrude and makes a remark about her marriage. I don't believe a sane person would be able to do this. I see a huge parallel character with Hamlet in her actions here.
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