Please choose two questions from ACT IV to respond to in at least a 150 word post. Please state the scene and the question. (ex. ACT IV Scene 2 - How is suspense built in this scene?) Be sure you provide textual evidence to support your claims. You must respond to two of your peers as well. DUE by midnight 1/2/17
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Jordan Zeigler
12/31/2016 03:21:23 pm
Scene 3, no. 1
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Jenny Smith
1/2/2017 10:53:58 am
This gave me a new perspective on the ironic outlook when comparing both kings. It is because of Fortinbra that Hamlet declares that "Oh, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!"
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Holmes
1/5/2017 09:30:45 am
Well put. Hamlet recognizes Fortinbras' folly as well as his ability to act. Is Fortinbras a better prince for action or Hamlet for vacillating? Or neither?
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Jenny Smith
1/2/2017 10:48:05 am
Question 1, Scene 6
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Jordan Zeigler
1/3/2017 01:56:30 pm
Answering your 2nd question, I think it is easy to tie the idea of poison back into the symbolic context discussed in the critical analysis we read before reading Hamlet. As you stated in lines 102-105, Hamlet became "envenomed with envy" by hearing about Laertes's skill at fencing. It is only fitting that this jealousy of Laertes would result in another, literal "envenoming" as well. Jealousy, malice, and revenge all become concepts that Hamlet must suffer from- like a cut by a sword, as well as indulges in- like a drink. Here, poison is both inflicted by the sword and voluntarily drunk, which can symbolically represent both the outwardly harmful and the self-destructive nature of the "poisonous" qualities of man.
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Holmes
1/5/2017 01:35:28 pm
Nicely analyzed Jordan.
Holmes
1/5/2017 09:34:38 am
"The real question is if this is a lie Hamlet told just to get back to England, or if it is the truth. Somehow Hamlet has escaped the ship he was on while leaving Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to continue to England."
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Kenya Jones
1/5/2017 06:22:54 am
Scene 1, Question 1
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Jenny Smith
1/6/2017 10:38:04 am
This is but yet another example of Claudius' selfishness. You stated "...he knows if this crime were to get out, it will only hurt him instead of Hamlet." That is a good point that you bring up because it exposes that Claudius' actions are done only to benefit himself. If the murder were to only have dragged Hamlet down, he would've told the whole kingdom of Denmark.
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Jordan Zeigler
1/8/2017 09:36:04 am
In response to your first question, I agree that it is ironic for Claudius to point out the mental corruption in Hamlet. Shakespeare uses irony a great deal, and here he shows that no character was free of corruption in the play.
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