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"O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven...It hath the primal eldest curse upon't / A brother's murder"
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Claudius : soliloquy Speaking of his act murder and Referencing cain and able
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"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"
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Marcellus says to Horatio : Something is wrong within the Royal family
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"Though this be madness, it there is method in't-will you walk out if the air,my lord"
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The first part is Polonious in an aside: The second part he speaks to prince Hamlet: Polonius is thinking Hamlet is crazy or maybe he is faking it.
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"....And now I'll do't. And so a goes to heaven;/ And so I am revenged. That would be scann'd:/ A villian kills my father, and for that, / I. his sole son, do this same villian send/ to heaven"
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Hamlet: Soliloquy
He wants to wit until claudius is sinning before he kills him |
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And let me speak to th' yet knowing world/ How these things came about: so shall you hear/ of carnal bloody and unnatural acts, of accidental judments,casual slaughters, / of deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause/...."
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Horatio to Fortinbras : This is a recap at the end of the play
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What is Cartharsis?
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The release of pity and fear by the audience at the end of the tragedy.
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"...O most wicked speed, to post/ With such dexterity to incestous sheets! / It is not nor cannot come to good:/ But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue"
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Hamlet soliloquy : His dislike of his mothers marriage to his uncle
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"...frailty, thy name is woman"
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Hamlet soliloquy : Gertrude is weak
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"To be or not to be; that is the question;/ Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer/ The clings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to arms against a sea of troubles,/ And by opposing them?"
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Hamlet soliloquy :
Suicide contemplation to live or not to live |
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"The time is out of joint o cursed spite/ that everI was born to set it right"
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Hamlet soliloquy: cursing the day that he was born into the royal family
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"One woe doth tread upon another's heel..."
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Gertrude to Laeretes: One bad thing comeing with another bad thing. She is trying to soften the blow of Ophelia's death
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"...There's a divinity that shapes our ends,/Rough-hew them how we will"
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Hamlet to Horatio: God already knows our destiny and we can't change it
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"Why man, they did make love to this employment/ They are not near my conscious. Their defeat/ does by their own insinuation grow
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Hamlet to Horatio : He doesn't feel guilty for what he done to rosencratz and
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"...Whose end both ar the first and now, was and is to hold as't were, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature scorn her own image..."
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Hamlet talking to actors: To show of reality
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"What is the reason that you use mer thus?/ I lov'd you ever: but it is no matter; Let Hercules himself do what he may, / The cat will mew adn the dog will have his day
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Hamlet to Laeretes
Not going to be on test |
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"A little more than kin and less than kind!
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"Hamlet aside : He is referring to his uncle now being his stepfather more kin but not really to him
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""...I knew him... a fellow of infinete jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath born me/ on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is? My gorge rises at it/...
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Hamlet to Horatio Says this about yorick his chilhood friend who was King Hamlet's jester. He realizes that we all return to dust
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I'll have grounds / more relative than this: the play's the thing Wherein i'll catch the conscious of the king
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"Hamlet soliloquy Hamlet is wanting proof of Cladius guilt.
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There with fantastic garlands did she make/...When down her weedy trophies and herself/ Fell into the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;/ And mermaid like awhile they bore her up;...
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"Gertrude to Laeretes telling him that Ophelia had drowned
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"Let not the royal bed of Denmark be / A"couch for luxury and damned incest""
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Ghost to Hamlet: Stop Gertrude and Cladius from sleeping together
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"Why, as a woodcock to my own springe....I am justly kill'd with my own treachery"
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Laertes to Hamlet : He got caught in his own trap and desrves what he gets
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"If thou dist ever hold me in thy heart, / Absent from felicity awhile, / And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, / to tell my story"
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Hamlet to Horatio : He wants Horatio to tell the truth and keep his name clean
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"...was your father dear to you? / Or are you painting of a sorrow, / A face without a heart?
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Claudius to Laertes : Did you love your father or is it fake. Claudius is manipulating Laertes to kill Hamlet
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"...O From this time forth, My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!"
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Hamlet Soliloquy from now own he is not going to Procastrinate He is going to take care of business he has been inspired by fortinbras army
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"Not so, my lord, I am too much I' the sun"
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Hamlet to King Claudius : This is a Pun. He is in the presence of Claudius too much
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Characteristics of a hero?
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Nobility, tragic flaw, suffers, Happiness, agony, vengeance is his goal
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Define realism
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A literary technique that attempts to create the appearance of life as it is usually experienced
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Playwright
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A writer who makes plays
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Well Made play
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conventions including plenty of suspense created by a meticolous plotting
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Problem Play
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a type of drama that presents a social issue in order to awaken the audiences to it. Henry Ibsen
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Naturalism
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Began in late 19th and early 20th century. It derives its name from the idea that human beings are part of nature and subject to its laws
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Difference in traditional plays and modern plays
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Traditional---Modern
Languages Palace--setting--Living room Royalty-Characters-Me & You Extraordinary-problems-Realistic politics------issues |
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Melodrama
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Any literary work that relies on implausible events and sensational action for its effects. Often a virtous individual must somehow confront and overcome a wicked opressor
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Litereary tragedy
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presents couragous individuals who confront powerful forces
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What is Hamlets tragic Flaw?
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He thinks too much.
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What is Calvinism?
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The belief that we are predestined to heavan or hell.
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What is Momento mori?
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It is latin for Remember you are mortal
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What is authors technique called Allusion?
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When an author eludes
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What was the name of the play within the play and it's significance?
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The mousetrap He was going to catch the kings conscious.
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What is a dumbshow?
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Its the begining of a play that shows what the play is going to be about. No words are spoken like miming the play.
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What does a revenge tragedy entail? (7 things)
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1.Ghost 2.able scheming villain 3.Poison 4.Madness 5. Conspiracies 6.Suicide
7.Casual slaughter |
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What is a soliloquy?
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When an actor reveals his thought (aloud) alone on stage. Only the audience can hear him.
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What is an aside?
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It is when an actor speaks on stage so that the other actors on stage cannot hear him but the audience can.
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Where did tragedies derive from?
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Romans and Greeks
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What is the Prologue?
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The opening speech or dialogue of any play, especially a greek play that usually gives the exposition necessary to follow subsequent action.
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What is Parados?
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Song sung by the chorus as it first enters
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What is Episodia?
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A scene of dialogue where one or more actors take part int it.
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What is Exodus?
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A progressional song sung by the chorus at the end of the play offering wisdom related to the actions and outcome of the play.
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What is a stasimon?
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A choral ode that often reflect on the dialogue and events of the preceding episode
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What is the setting of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark?
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Hamlet was set in Denmark in early 1600's. Elsinore was the town in which the castle was in Castle is Elsinore
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