Hamlet- Act 1- Revision by Nicky Fillis https://padlet.com/nickyfillis/w2zug2o364ow Made with ♥ en-us 2019-04-25 11:42:00 UTC 2019-04-26 07:27:34 UTC hello@padlet.com https://imgglb.padletcdn.com/v13/image?t=g_auto&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.net%2Ficons%2Fpng%2F1f9d0.png Act 1 nickyfillis https://padlet.com/nickyfillis/w2zug2o364ow/wish/354063020 What happens in Act 1?

Setting the scene...
  • As the court celebrates the marriage of Hamlet's mother (Gertrude) to his uncle (Claudius), Hamlet finds out that his father's ghost is haunting the castle. He is determined to confront it.
"If it assume my noble father's person/I'll speak to it though hell itself should gape / And bid me hold my peace"

Hamlet confronts the Ghost...
  • The ghost of Old Hamlet reveals that he was murdered by Claudius and demands that young Hamlet seeks revenge- obligation. Hamlet decides to feign madness in an attempt to find proof of his uncle's guilt. 
"Thus was I sleeping, by a brother's hand/of life, of crown and queen, at once despatched"

]]> 2019-04-25 11:49:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nickyfillis/w2zug2o364ow/wish/354063020 Act 1 nickyfillis https://padlet.com/nickyfillis/w2zug2o364ow/wish/354066203 Hamlet sees and speaks to the Ghost for the first time...Notice the atmosphere...Fog and mist---Hard to make out the apparition]]> 2019-04-25 12:02:17 UTC https://padlet.com/nickyfillis/w2zug2o364ow/wish/354066203 Act 1 nickyfillis https://padlet.com/nickyfillis/w2zug2o364ow/wish/354068107 Questions:
  1. In Claudius’s speech in the beginning of Act 1, scene 2, what does it mean when he says: “Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death the memory be green.”
  2. What does Gertrude mean when she says: “Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off, and let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark...all that lives must die...”
  3. Laertes says to Ophelia, “...but you must fear, his greatness weighed, his will is not his own.” Why is Hamlet’s will “not his own”?
  4. "As  I perchance hereafter shall think meet, To put an antic disposition on" What is Hamlet's goal?
  5. Analyse Hamlet's soliloquy about his dilemma. Why is Hamlet afflicted?
]]> 2019-04-25 12:09:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nickyfillis/w2zug2o364ow/wish/354068107 Act 1 nickyfillis https://padlet.com/nickyfillis/w2zug2o364ow/wish/354072455 Summary of Act 1...]]> 2019-04-25 12:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nickyfillis/w2zug2o364ow/wish/354072455