Monday, December 8, 2014

Hamlet Act 2 Notes

- what a piece of work is a man
- cliche like theme of the play 
- thesis statement to quote
- Hamlet quoting another play
- Hamlet is changing the play he is starting to hatch a plan
- the plays the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king
- he starts to beat himself up
- compares himself to the actor
- beats himself up for not speaking up and being private
- and starts saying aloud that he's a coward
- the only person that knows what he's supposed to do is a ghost 
- if he could speak talk is cheap action is worth something
- judging his lack of action
- play within the play
- he's trying to get the players/actor to reveal themselves 
- polonius wants the players to to comedy
- he doesn't want them to see him coming 
- he's playing the odds of having them reveal themselves instead of him revealing them

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