Monday, 12.1 - Omelet (1.2)

• 3PO
• GUM: 
• review for your poetry recitation
• study your Shakespearean Sight Words (left column)
• Hamlet cont.
• Journal

HW: 

1. (Wed) Hamlet Journal . . . handwritten in your journal (see below)
2. (Block) Quiz
1. Parallelism
2. Shakespearean Sight Words (left column)
3. Hamlet and Leithart

J - Hamlet, Act 1

Read Leithart (pgs. 120-129) and answer the following questions (Remember that Leithart is the PDF posted on GC that you used to do the first Hamlet journal):

1. What dramatic and thematic purposes does young Fortinbras, the young prince of Norway, serve? 
2. Contrast the late King Hamlet (the ghost) with Claudius (his brother and present King of Denmark).
3. What is significant (and ironic) about fathers, particularly about most of the fathers in this drama?
4. Cite two textual examples of how Shakespeare develops the theme that sometimes appearances mask reality.
5. What is the purpose of Shakespeare's "ghosts"?
6. Discuss the important question concerning the "nature" of the ghost (where it comes from) and how we know. 
7. How was King Hamlet killed? What imagery does the ghost use to describe his death, and why is this (biblically) significant?