PPT-Hamlet Act Five Act five Scene I: Key Points

Two gravediggers banter while they work The Graveyard scene as its known is rich in black humour Their mock legal argument provides entertaining comic moments and some light relief Hamlet and Horatio arrive and Hamlet meditates on death decay and the transitory nature of life Hamlet concludes that death is the great leveller regardless of social class it cannot be avoided. Allusion. Anachronism. Aside. Dramatic Foil. Dramatic Irony. Monologue. Soliloquy. Tragic Flaw. Monologue. – . One person making a long speech to at least one other person. {Act I, Scene 2, L.1} . Brown and Bev. Representing Ophelia-. Elaine showalter. Ophelia literally has no story without Hamlet. Shakespeare offers very little information from which to imagine a past for Ophelia. Cultural links between femininity, female sexuality, insanity, and representation. Feminist theory. By: Angie Ellison, Jenny Torres, Minerva Dominguez, and Paulo Fonseca. Feminist . theory: . is the extension of feminism into theoretical, or philosophical . discourse; . it aims to understand the nature of . The Analytical Breakdown of . Hamlet. , Act 1 . Act 1 – Exposition . Act 2 – Complications (Rising Action) . Act 3 – Climax . Act 4 – Reversals (Falling Action) . Act 5 – Catastrophe / Denouement (& Recognition). Act I, Scene ii.  . Setting. “The castle”. Many ways to play this scene. Branagh. plays it as a very formal, very public ceremony of sorts in front of the whole court. Others see it as a council chamber, with only the high ups of the court present. Ophelia doesn’t feature much in the play but her role is to show “. Hamlet's warped view of women as callous sexual predators, and the innocence and virtue of . women” – Shakespeare-online.com. The Height of Suspense and Tension. Scene 1: King, R, G, Queen, Pol, Ophelia, Hamlet. The king and queen question R & G. , and Claudius is becoming impatient: he has started a new refrain in labelling Hamlet as "dangerous." The rest of the scene becomes a test of Hamlet's madness: is Hamlet insane? . Hamlet feels a responsibility to avenge his father’s murder by his uncle Claudius, but Claudius is now the king and thus well protected. . Moreover. , Hamlet struggles with his doubts about whether he can trust the ghost and whether killing Claudius is the appropriate thing to do.. Interesting stats. As of the year 2000, there had been 75 film versions made of . Hamlet. —the second most commonly adapted play in all of Shakespeare’s work.. Hamlet himself is the most dominant character in all of Shakespeare. His 1,506 lines of speech in the play account for 39% of the play’s lines.. 1. 1. What mood is established in this opening scene? How does Shakespeare establish this mood? . The . mood is dark, creepy, and sinister. Shakespeare establishes this mood by setting the opening scene of this tragic play just after midnight. There are three scared watchmen and a skeptical friend of Hamlet’s out on the watch, participating in a ghost-hunt. The audience should feel the tension right away and the cold weather reflects the mood. . The prince of Denmark, son of Gertrude, nephew of Claudius, . and heir . to the throne. . Hamlet . is a deep thinker, focusing on impossible to . answer questions . about religion, death, truth, reality, and the motivations of others.. When asked what Speech he would like to hear Hamlet responds by saying “ One speech in’t chiefly loved ‘t’was Aenas’ tale to Dido- and thereabout of it especially when he speaks of Priam’s slaughter.”(II.ii.433-435). “The castle”. Fairly vague, but probably some sort of public receiving area. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern enter “[with others]”. . - . Throne room? . Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Absolutely interchangeable. Hamlet Act Five Two gravediggers discuss Ophelia’s suicide. Hamlet and Horatio engage in philosophical discussion. Ophelia’s funeral takes place. Laertes ’ display of grief for Ophelia enrages Hamlet and the two men fight by her graveside.