Literary Fiction and Empathy

By reading  a work of fiction, it allows a person's mind to wander and come up with their own thoughts along the way. Fiction is obviously a piece of work that has been made up, but most of the time contains elements that are intertwined in a person's daily life or something that they've gone through. Fiction can help a person understand somebody else by interpreting the story they've read and inputting it into a specific scenario. In a way it seems easier to understand somebody else by having examples of other peoples work to go off of. Rather than non fiction pieces where the answers are already lying in the book, and there's no way to think around it or make up your own ending because what you are already reading is true. Fiction gives us the freedom to explore our emotions on our own and allows us to deal with our social skills in real world situations better than we think we can. In Hamlet, Hamlet goes through a lot of internal struggles that makes me question what kind of person he is. If he is going to follow through with some of the actions he is wanting to do. Hamlet shows different emotions when he's put into different situations that show me he is lost but knows what he's supposed to do.

Hamlet Act 1 Scene 5

- the ghost finally speaks with Hamlet

- when the ghost's hour is up he has to go back to purgatory

- the ghost wants Hamlet to seek revenge

- the ghost wants Hamlet to kill his murderer

- Hamlet doesn't think he can be able to kill a person when he has love in his heart and mind

- the serpent is Hamlets uncle, Claudius

- Hamlets uncle which is Gertrude's new husband is the person who killed Hamlets father

- Hamlet tells him to kill Claudius but leave Getrude to deal with her own sins

- Hamlets doenst want to tell Horatio an Marcellus what his father wants him to do

- Hamlet tells them to not well anyone about what they've seen

- Thy swear not to tell anyone what they've seen

Hamlet Act 1 Scene 4

- Hamlet Horatio and Marcellus are waiting to see the ghost of the King

- Hamlet wants to speak to his father badly

- the ghost gestures Hamlet to follow him 

- Horatio and Marcellus don't want Hamlet to go away with the ghost 

- Marcellus wants to follow Hamlet

- Horatio and Marcellus both forcefully try to stop Hamlet from going with the ghost

- Hamlet is persistent in wanting to talk with his father, so he goes

- They both follow after him 

Hamlet Act 1 Scene 3

-Something is rotten in the state of Denmark 

-Claudius  seduced Gertrude 

-She abandoned her feelings for Hamlet before he died

-Claudius killed the king, he came and put poison in his ear

-Queen knew Claudius killed her husband  

- Hamlets in purgatory cuz he was in a state of sin couldn't go to confession

- He only knows what he knows because he was a ghost

- Vow during marriage til death do us part

- Hamlet tells Hamlet that revenge is his for Claudius 

- Hamlet says not to do anything to the mother let her die with sin and guilt

- I have sworn't, Hamlet is resolved 

- Hamlet has a lot of pressures on him and it weighs on him heavily

- Conflict in Hamlet 

- He has validation

- There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio,than are dreamt of in your philosophy

- The time is out of joint:I cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

Vocabulary #6

abase - verb cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
Ex: The man abased the boy
abdicate - verb give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
Ex: The king abdicated himself from the throne
abomination - noun an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence; a person who is loathsome or disgusting; hate coupled with disgust
Ex: Kirk was an abomination to the family
brusque - adj. marked by rude or peremptory shortness
Ex: The brusque ref gave the player a yellow card
saboteur - noun someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks; a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader
Ex: The saboteur ruined the wedding
debauchery - noun a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
Ex: The debauchery of the group led to a night in jail
proliferate - verb cause to grow or increase rapidly; grow rapidly
Ex: The surgery proliferated the guys growth
anachronism - noun an artifact that belongs to another time; a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age; something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Ex: The anachronism were from the 1400s
nomenclature - noun a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
Ex: The nomenclature helped lay out the punishment for the kids
expurgate - verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
Ex: the writer expurgated words from his story
bellicose - adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight
Ex: the bellicose girl was all heated after being yelled at
gauche - adj. lacking social polish
Ex: Mark had gauche talking skills
rapacious - adj. excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities; living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
Ex: The rapacious toddler was put in time out
paradox - noun (logic) a statement that contradicts itself
Ex: A paradox was used in the conversation I had the other day
conundrum - noun a difficult problem
Ex: This math problem is a conundrum
anomaly - noun (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun); a person who is unusual; deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
Ex: The plant Jupiter's anomaly has yet to be looked at
ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; noun anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form
Ex: The morphine was ephemeral
rancorous - adj. showing deep-seated resentment
Ex: The rancorous teenager wanted revenge on her boyfriend
churlish - adj. having a bad disposition; surly; rude and boorish
Ex: The churlish man had no friends
precipitous - adj. characterized by precipices; extremely steep; done with very great haste and without due deliberation
Ex: The hill was precipitous

Vocabulary #5

shenanigans. mischief, deceit, trickery
Ex: Rick was full of mischief
ricochet - noun a glancing rebound; verb spring back; spring away from an impact
Ex: The ball ricocheted off the backboard
schism - noun division of a group into opposing factions; the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences
Ex: The Religious congregation made a schism
eschew - verb avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of
Ex: The mouse eschewed the cat
plethora - noun extreme excess
Ex: There was a plethora of fries left over after dinner
ebullient - adj. joyously unrestrained
Ex: The ebullient girl went to tell her mom she was engaged
garrulous - adj. full of trivial conversation
Ex: The man was garrulous over the topic at hand
harangue - noun a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion; verb deliver a harangue to; address forcefully
Ex: Paul harangued a speech for his football team before a game
interdependence - noun a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups)
Ex: The interdependence of a charger to a phone is a perfect combination
capricious - adj. determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; changeable
Ex: The capricious panther jumped on its prey
loquacious - adj. full of trivial conversation
ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; noun anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form
Ex: The ephemeral funeral was sad
inchoate - adj. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
Ex: The inchoate star will die in 1,000
juxtapose - verb place side by side
Ex: The story had very juxtaposed meanings
perspicacious - adj. acutely insightful and wise; mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
Ex: The perspicacious girl was trying to fight with the doctor about her health
codswallop - noun nonsensical talk or writing
Ex: The codswallop story didn't make sense
mungo - a cheap felted fabric made from wool
Ex: The mungo was very warm
 sesquipedalian - tending to use very long words
Ex: The game required sesquipedalian words
wonky - adj. inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; turned or twisted toward one side
Ex: Patty had a wonky feeling after drinking 10 energy drinks
diphthong - noun a vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another
Ex: The diphthong was very hard to pronounce

Hamlet Act 1 Scene 2

- aside a little more than kin,and less than kind

- dramatic/situational irony

- Hamlet savvy decision maker 

- hours of grief are just visuals

-visage not showing that he's grieving

- calling out people that they are acting like they are grieving for hamlets father 

- hiding his emotions an implications people more showing but not with integrity

- trying to make hamlet seem unstable

- friends close enemies closer

- see through the mind of the protagonist 

- wishes that suicide wasn't a sin

- kill himself because he was so angry he didn't want to see it

- bashing on his mom

- she should've gone more into a mourning period

- he was seeming like an investigative detective 

- Hamlet is start putting facts together