Hamlet Act 4

Act 4

Scene 1

- what's wrong?

- Gertrude says that hamlet is nuts and Claudius plans to send hamlet away and going to excuse his wrong doing

- scared on hamlet spilling the beans about the murder 

Scene 2 

- hamlet actin. Like a round for the first time with guild and rose

Scene 3

- Claudius needs this sending away to seem normal and appropriate so people don't question him

-wordy, imperial, and bringing many characteristics into one

- Hamlet tells Claudius he is like everyone else

- goif to have hamlet killed in England 

- hamlet changed and is now a man. Confident 

Scene 4

- 5th soliloquy 

- going to fight over something worthless

- soldiers show courage, honor, obedience 

- no outward cause it's about inward commitment for hamlet 

- compare to captain and how he can't do what he does

- circumstances make him no able to  do what he wants?

- hawt talks about how man has brain to use to carry out action and if we don't then we are just another animal all the same

- chiding himself for over thinking 

- blaming himself and making excuses for procrastinating 

- has army at his command because he is a prince 

- making himself miserable

- double sided blade: piece of all of us how we have mental capabilities for reflection and learning but at the same time there is a benefit to not thinking so much and just taking action like in battle

- resolve into tapping into inner soldier and not think about what he is doing and just be a soldier with no emotion and just do action

Scene 5

- hamlet says Ophelia is crazy

- talking about dead father, love, rejection has made someone mad, 

- Claudius is starting to see the more issues and weeds of his problem

- Ophelia saying how is polonuis death is just excised she will call lasrtes and he won't have it

- Claudius speech?

- laertes saying any part of me this is not angry is not the son to my father

- who shall stay you: who shall hold you back

- saying Ophelia has lost her mind. Ophelia loved hamlet and she lost him

- laertes is twice angry at hamlet 

- Claudius plan is falling apart and hamlet is not on way to England and rose and guil are and hamlet has own plan

Scene 6

- know you the hand: do you recognize the hand writing

- laertes will listen to Claudius as long as he doesn't tell her to kill anyone

- hamlet ship attacked by pirates so came home because he said he would do a good deed for them later

Scene 7

- king convinces laertes to be on his side

- stated that he didn't convict hamlet for Gertrude and that everyone loves hamlet 

- king reiterating his power 

- sociological test on laertes before tell him plan to kill hamlet. Laertes wants to be the one to do it so he is in on plan but king doesn't know his will power

- king tells laertes that hamlet envies him because this man lamond likes laertes over hamlet

- king is adamant about acting right away because he says the longer you wait the more likely you are to not accomplish it. Foreshadow hamlet? Show difference between king and hamlet

- exchanges in this convo reflect back on what play had been about so far 

- king has plan to have laertes kill hamlet while fencing and king will give hamlet a compliment so hamlet will be distracted and then laertes wil go in and kill him

- why does laertes just have poison lying around

- chalice of poisoned wine

- Ophelia drowned and she was a women who was driven mad by lost love

- laertes trying to fight back tears and calls them womanly: "I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, but that this folly drowns it"

- Claudius tells queen that they need to follow laertes because of his state of mind and king is afraid of laertes and what he might do