Yuzuka Ieta Hamlet Act 4 Scene 5 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 Ophelias madness but also states that ID: 590281
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By: Hannah Brower and Yuzuka Ieta
Hamlet Act 4 Scene 5Slide2
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 personSlide3
Sentence StructureSlide4
Speaks in songs/poemsShows 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
OpheliaSlide5
Speaks in quick, short sentencesShows his anger and short temper“How came he dead? I’ll not be juggled with.”
Line 130
LaertesSlide6
Speaks in iambic pentameterShows he is calm and has not changed his manner like the other characters have“When sorrows come, the come not single spies…”
Line 77
ClaudiusSlide7
Sentences are long, but broken up with commasShows 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
GertrudeSlide8
Literary DevicesSlide9
Sexual Pun “Let in the maid that out a maid Never departed more.”
Lines 54-55
PunSlide10
“O heat dry up my brains, tears seven times saltBurn out the sense and virtue of mine eye!”Lines 154-155
HyperboleSlide11
“O heavens, is’t possible a young maid’s wits Should be as mortal as an old man’s life?”
Lines 159-160
SimileSlide12
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
ImagerySlide13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfcsP-eKJF8http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a1ks-S4UNU
ClipsSlide14
Setting- quiet, outsideLighting- dull, monochromeCostumes- dirty, colorlessGives an impression of an extremely
sad
,
gloomy
, and almost
fearful tone
Hamlet (1990)Slide15
Setting- small, closed spaceLighting- darkCostumes- blacks and graysGives it a tone of
anger
and
crazed madness
Hamlet (TV 2009)Slide16
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
Hamlet (1996)Slide17
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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