Re-read Hamlet’s first soliloquy and answer the questions that follow.
SOLILOQUY
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt (1.2.131-61).
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, (135)
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: (140)
So excellent a king; that was, to this,
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, (145)
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on: and yet, within a month --
Let me not think on't -- Frailty, thy name is woman! --
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she follow'd my poor father's body, (150)
Like Niobe, all tears: -- why she, even she --
O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,
Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle,
My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules: within a month: (155)
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not nor it cannot come to good: (160)
But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.
NOTES
too too ] The duplication of "too" intensifies Hamlet's feelings of regret. Repetition of this kind was a popular literary device in the Renaissance.
solid ] Many scholars ask whether Shakespeare intended "solid" to be actually "sallied", a form of the word "sullied". The second quarto of Hamlet contains "sallied", but the First Folio prints it as "solid". Modern editors have been quite divided on the issue. Editors of The Arden Shakespeare have chosen to use "sullied", while editors of The New Cambridge Shakespeare have decided upon "solid". The reasoning for the use of "solid" is fairly evident, as it logically corresponds to "would melt" (131). However, there are good arguments to support the claim that Shakespeare did mean "sullied". With "sullied" we have the "suggestion of contamination" (Jenkins 437), which is apparent throughout the soliloquy. Some critics stress "sullied" as the "contrast to 'self-slaughter' the resolving of the baser element into the higher, whereby Hamlet might return from melancholy to normal health, or, if to become dew is to die, then from 'misery' to 'felicity'. But there is surely no thought here of being restored to health or happiness, only of being free of the 'flesh' whether through its own deliquescence or through suicide." (Jenkns 187).
canon ] divine law; the Church regards "suicide" or "self-slaughter" forbidden by the Sixth Commandment, "Thou shalt not kill".
flat ] Spiritless.
unweeded garden ] A well-tended garden was symbolic of harmony and normalcy.
in nature/Possess it merely ] Although Hamlet accepts weeds as a natural part of the garden (and more generally a natural part of life), he feels that the weeds have grown out of control and now possess nature entirely (merely = entirely).
Hyperion ] {hy-peer'-ee-uhn} One of the Titans and the father of Helios, the sun-god.
Satyr ] {say'-tur} A grotesque creature, half-man and half-goat, symbolic of sexual promiscuity. Hamlet's reference to his dead father as Hyperion and to his uncle Claudius as a satyr illustrates Hamlet's contempt for Claudius. His father is godlike while his uncle is bestial.
beteem ] Permit. In anguish, Hamlet remembers the way his father would treat Gertrude with such gentleness and care. His father would not permit the wind to "visit her face too roughly".
ere ] Before.
Niobe ] {ny'-oh-bee} Symbolic of a mother's grief. Niobe, Queen of Thebes, boasted that her fourteen children were more lovely than Diana and Apollo, the children of Latona (Leto). Because of her arrogance, Niobe's children were slain by Latona's children, and Zeus turned Niobe to stone - yet still her tears flowed from the rock.
a beast, that wants discourse of reason ] Hamlet believes that even a creature incapable of speech would have mourned longer than Gertrude mourned for Hamlet's father (here wants=lacks). "The faculty of reason was traditionally recognized as the crucial difference between man and the beasts. This lends further significance to the Hyperion-Satyr comparison above. It was through his reason that man could perceive the relation of cause and effect and thus connect past with future, whereas the beast, precisely because it lacks reason, must live largely in the present moment. Hence the axiom that its mourning would be brief." (Jenkins 438).
Hercules ] {hur'-kyoo-leez} A Greek hero renowned for his super-human tasks. Having a father so strong and noble intensifies Hamlet’s feelings of inadequacy.
unrighteous tears ] See commentary below.
flushing ] Flushing refers to the redness in Gertrude's eyes from crying. She did not wait until the redness disappeared from her eyes before she married Claudius.
galled eyes ] Irritated and inflamed eyes.
dexterity ] One could take "dexterity" in this context to mean either speed or nimbleness.
incestuous ] Even though Claudius and Gertrude are related only through marriage, the union between a woman and her husband's brother, even if the brother was deceased, was considered incest (see Leviticus 16:20), and was explicitly forbidden by the Catholic and Anglican religions.
But break, my heart ] Hamlet's heart is heavy because he must keep his anguish to himself. "The heart was thought to be kept in place by ligaments or tendons (the heart-strings) which might snap under the pressure of great emotion" (Edwards 91).
Source: http://shakespeare.about.com/library/weekly/aa061500a.htm#niobe
RESPONDING TO SHAKESPEARE’S/HAMLET’S RHETORIC
1. If you were hired as the editor of a new edition of Hamlet would you choose “solid” or “sullied”? Write a focused paragraph defending your answer.
2. Write a paragraph answering the following questions. What is Hamlet’s attitude toward his own life? Why does he feel this way? Given his circumstances is his attitude justified? Why or why not? If not what do you think his attitude should be? Dig below the surface. Have empathy. Put yourself in his shoes. Don’t just answer the questions create a cohesive paragraph (or paragraphs).
3. Write a paragraph or answering the following questions. What imagery does Hamlet use to describe his feelings about the world? Is this imagery—and the feelings expressed by this imagery—appropriate given the circumstances of his life? Why or why not? What other images might be appropriate (or even more appropriate) in conveying his feelings about the world? Why? Dig below the surface. Have empathy. Put yourself in his shoes. Don’t just answer the questions create a cohesive paragraph (or paragraphs).
4. How does Hamlet feel about his mother? Why? In your paragraph, use at least two quotations from the speech to support your answer.
5. In a paragraph write about Hamlet’s attitudes towards his father and Claudius. In the paragraph you should explain the two contrasts Hamlet uses to show that his father (King Hamlet) is superior to King Claudius. (The notes will help you with these contrasts.)
Will Macdonald Hamlet Questions
ReplyDelete1.In an honest opinion both words seem very possible to me, I don’t doubt that Shakespeare could’ve used either one. If given the opportunity to only choose one, I wouldn’t pick sullied. Sullied falls under a word category of synonyms for ‘dirty’, in the context that would basically mean to rid himself of his own despair, or ‘filth’. This word to me isn’t very extendable past the point of literally or symbolically meaning dirty, and as you can see Hamlet is in no way shape or form ready to ‘get over’ his father’s death. Solid, on the other hand, in this context would be to kill oneself. It seems to me that given the circumstance, a passionate character like Hamlet would be much more open to the idea of ending his own life in contrast to proceeding with his new one without a real father.
2.Hamlet’s general state of emotion at this point in the play is basically what you’d expect from a son who just lost a father, (whom I assume he had close ties to). He most likely shut off the optimistic side of his conscience when faced with such a tragedy that involved someone who he at one point or another considered a role model. And what replaces optimism is what one would normally think of as an inverse, pessimism. He probably feels abandoned, solemn, and considering the rate at which everyone else grew out of what was seemingly a bleak future without their beloved king, alone. I mean even just considering the idea that it only took a month for his mother, who had such a direct impact on his and his father’s life could just throw it away and turn to the uncle justifies his state full well. Even then, the fact that she could so gracefully tell him to in a sense; ‘snap out of it’ would infuriate anybody who had in their possession some form of compassion.
3.Within the soliloquy Hamlet describes the world as something that is natural; however in its own nature does it become destructive. He uses the analogy of an unweeded garden. The weeds; people, are indeed a part of nature, (maybe more apparent in his time than now) but our overall goal is to become everlasting. In that process we make overlook things like the well keeping of nature itself, and the end result is us becoming superior in our own obliviousness. This portion, although important shows little relevance to Hamlet’s situation. When he remarks upon the weeds as; “That grows to seed,” he refers to the general idea of rebirth. With every king comes another king, but who remembers the first king? More importantly; how long until the weeds forget about that first king and accept the second, giving him the title of king in the process, and losing the first to history?
4.To sum up what Hamlet thinks about his mother’s actions taken after the king’s death, in one bluntly put word, he believes she is possessed. Possessed in the sense that is at one point she being madly in love, and yet upon death she felt nothing. Even at that stage, the mere thought of remarriage to a man who is ‘a satyr in comparison to Hyperion’ most likely filled Hamlet’s head with contradictions. And now, after all that was said and done, for her to say things like ‘this happens’ in a completely irrelevant manner would seem crazy, especially when talking about someone who had at one point in time treated her so gently that he would not permit the wind from “visiting her face too roughly.”
5.When comparing Hamlet’s original father to his new one it seems blatantly obvious that he is siding with the original. It is possible that this is an act of pre-emptive judgment, but then again I don’t know that, we haven’t learned much about his new father at this point in the play. But what is apparent, or at least what Hamlet makes apparent, is that the new father is merely a ‘satyr in comparison to Hyperion.’ There are also the obvious reasons for mistrusting the man, he did marry King Hamlet’s wife a month prior to death. And Hamlet did imply numerous times that he was unkind or different, (“a little more than kin and less than kind.”).
1. As an editor of Hamlet, I would choose the word “sullied” because during the soliloquy you are supposed to feel what Hamlet is thinking. Sullied means dirty or contaminated. What Hamlet is trying to show is the guilt that he feels. He is guilty for his uncle and mother disgracing his father by marrying so shortly after his death. Hamlet wants to kill himself because of the guilt and because he is so miserable.
ReplyDelete2. Hamlet’s attitude towards his own life is bad. He wants to kill himself. He says if suicide was not a sin that he would kill himself. He is so upset that his father died and his mother remarried his uncle so soon that he has every reason to feel this way. If I was in Hamlets position I would not be as polite as he is. I would make my new family’s life a living hell.
3. Hamlet uses the words “weary, stale, flat and unprofitable” to describe the uses of the world. This is a metaphor of the world and his life. He feels like he is no good now that everyone has betrayed him. Another metaphor he uses is “’tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed” this is saying that the bad in the world is multiplying. These metaphors fit into Hamlet’s life very well. The country that was once being comfortably ruled by his father is now ruled by the uncle that he hates and is on the brink of attack from Norway.
4. Hamlet does not understand how he is still grieving over his father’s death, and his mother has already moved on. “O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,
Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle” Hamlet is saying that any normal widow would mourn the death of their husband, not marry their brother in law within a month. “It is not nor it cannot come to good: (160) But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.” Here, Hamlet is saying how even though it kills him to see his mother with his uncle, there is nothing he can do about it right now. Hamlet was written in the peak of the Church of England. Everyone was super conservative and followed the rules precisely. A woman marrying her late husband’s brother would have been considered incest. Shakespeare put this action into the play because he knew that it would strike the audience. They would know that it was a sin and it would make them dislike Claudius and Gertrude even more.
5. Hamlet compares his father to Hercules, the great Greek warrior. This comparison shows how much Hamlet idolized his father and that just makes him hate Claudius even more. Hamlet also compares his uncle to a Satyr, which is a Greek symbol of promiscuity. Hamlet compares his father to a God and his uncle to a beast.
1. I would choose the word “sullied” in a new edition of Hamlet because sullied means dirty. The line says that he would like to lose all his guilt and he can start over. If he had used the other word ”solid” , it would literally mean that he wanted himself to melt. I would choose the word “sullied” because of the figurative meaning when it says that he is trying to get rid of his guilt and start over again.
ReplyDelete2. Hamlet’s attitude is dark and glum because of the actions that his mother and his uncle went through. He feels this way because his mother married his uncle less than a month after his father and the uncle’s brother died. His attitude is justified because of what his mom did and he is probably still grieving about his father and his mother basically forgot about him. If I was in Hamlet’s shoes, I would be very angry at my mother, but I would be more mad at my uncle for what he has done.
3. Hamlet’s uses a lot of imagery to describe his feelings about the world. The first use of imagery is when he says he wants his flesh to melt. The next use of imagery is when he says “resolve itself into dew”. Yes it is appropriate to be using the imagery that he uses because of the circumstances of his mother marrying his uncle.
4. Hamlet is extremely angry with his mother for what she did by marrying his uncle. He is more mad at his mother than his is at his uncle. His mother should still be grieving over the fact that her husband died and not rush into anything like she did. When he says “ a little month, or ere those shoes were old with which she follow’d my poor father’s body”. That quote shows that he thinks that his mother rushed into getting married. Another quote, “ would have mourn’d longer—married with my uncle”, is similar to the other quote.
5. Hamlet has two completely different attitudes between his father and his uncle Claudius. Hamlet now doesn’t like his uncle because of him marrying his mother. Hamlet’s attitude to his father is that he loves his father, he mourns for his father while no one else is really mourning for him. Hamlet compares his father to god and his uncle to a beast in the soliloquy.
1. If I were chosen to be the editor of Shakespeare’s Hamlet I would choose Sullied instead of solid. They would both work very well but after looking through the rest of the soliloquy I believe myself that sullied fits more with the overall theme. In the next line he says “Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!” it would make more senses with sullied there because solid would make it a little more awkward.
ReplyDelete2. Hamlets attitude towards his life at this point is not very good. He is very unhappy with it for obvious reasons and acts like he would like to cleanse and rid himself of all the bad things and emotions he is going through and feeling at this point in his life. It is very clear that anyone of the events that happened to him would be hard on anyone let alone have them all happen at the same time.
3. Hamlet in this soliloquy seem like he is trying to make the reader go into his shoes and try and even come close to feel all the emotions he is going through. He maps out the whole situation for the reader and really tries to capture how he is feeling through his words which can be difficult.
4. Hamlet is clearly very angry with his mother. It clearly bothers him that she was able to get married again not even a month after the death of his father. This line shows his fellings twards that “But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:”. Also Hamlet is very angry with his mother that she would go as far to marry his father’s brother. This is shown in this line “why she, even she --O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,
Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules.” So it is very clear from this that hamlet is disgusted with his mothers ridiculous behavior.
5. Hamlet clearly respected his father a lot. He belives he was the best king Denmark would ever have and he belives his uncle Claudius is only tarnishing the throne. He seem to belive that even at his young age he would be able to carry out his fathers legacy better than his uncle could. He is clearly unhappy with all of the things his uncle has put him through.
1. Given that no one is quite sure of which word Shakespeare used, solid or sullied as an editor I would choose the word solid. Though either word could possibly be used I feel that solid would better express Hamlets emotions. The use of the word solid in the soliloquy would show that Hamlet wants to kill himself, which is true. Given his situation with his mother and uncle he’s in a very depressed state and feeling guilty for what they have done.
ReplyDelete2. Hamlets attitude towards life is very negative, understandably so. He is feeling anger, sadness, betrayal, abandonment and I’m sure confusion. He is feeling in these ways because of the recent death of his father. As if the death of his father isn’t hard enough his mother almost instantaneously marries his father’s brother (his uncle). He doesn’t understand why they would do that, and be so insensitive. Neither of the two seem to care about his feeling, his father/uncle told him his grieving was unmanly, and his mother told his death is just part of life. His attitude and feeling are completely justified. Everything that is going on would be completely overwhelming to anybody. His family thinks he’s overreacting and should just get over it but I think he’s acting very mature about it.
3. In this soliloquy Hamlet uses a lot of imagery including describing his view of the world. “'tis an unweeded garden,” with this Hamlet is saying that the world is growing out of control, with no real compassion or cares. The fact that this “garden” is unweeded lets it grow to reseed, metaphorically meaning that the problems are left unhandled allowing them to continue and grow bigger. He feels as though the “weeds” will never stop popping up, and that the world is hopeless. Given his situation he is rightfully questioning his feeling about the world. I think that his choice of imagery is very fitting to how he feels about life at this point.
4. Hamlet at this point is very upset with his mother. He feels both betrayed and abandoned. “Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month" in this part he is wondering why didn’t she morn longer, why did she marry his uncle. He shows how upset he is that she married him, but more so how she didn’t seem upset about the death of her husband. He’s upset about how both his mother and Claudius have no respect for the death of his father. He also seem frustrated about the fact that on many occasions Claudius has called him his son, but he feels that he is not nearly a father to him. “She married. O, most wicked speed”, this quote is basically said why did she marry him so close after to king hamlets death. How could both of them be so insensitive? Hamlet is very upset with both Claudius and his mother.
5. Hamlet is very upset about how Claudius has acted after his brother (King Hamlet’s) death. Even though his mother and Claudius are now married he does not view him as a father. He doesn’t think Claudius is half the man his father was. “Hyperion to a satyr” Hamlet uses this line to compare his father to Claudius. He’s saying that his father is like Hyperion and to his Uncle Claudius as a satyr, which essentially to say his father was godly and his uncle is like a beast. “O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason” states that even a beast incapable of speaking would have been for sympathetic that Claudius and his mother were.
1. Personally I would use the word solid. I would solid instead of sullied because hamlet has done no wrong yet in the book. Not only that but solid seems to make more sense. It makes more sense because as I already stated he has done no wrong that the audience knows of. Also to say that he was a liquid or a gas would be weird. That is why I would use the word solid instead of sullied.
ReplyDelete2. As of right now hamlets view towards life is that it is meaningless and he wants to die or to “melt”. He feels like this because his father had just died and his uncle married his mother and took the throne. I believe hamlet is justified because his mother had remarried “within a month”. I know I would be hurt if my mother had done that to me. So yes I do believe this anger is a justified anger.
3. Hamlet use the imagery of himself just melting away and disappearing. I do believe that melting away is appropriate because it is just like what they are doing to his late father just forgetting about him, there memories of him are just melting away. He also use the imagery of a garden of weeds. This is appropriate because the world in hamlet is corrupt and when you pull one weed another come in to place same way with the selfish kings and queens. He also could have used a head with hair as an image. If you cut it off it will just grow back.
4. Hamlet is really mad and upset with his mother. I would be too. Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on: and yet, within a month --
What Hamlet is saying with this passage is that his mother loved his father so much and yet she remarried within a month his is disgusted by that.
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly.
And with this passage Hamlet is saying that his father would take care of here and not let the wind hit her face to roughly
5.Hamlet believes his father to be a much better man than Claudius.
So excellent a king; that was, to this,
Hyperion to a satyr
He is saying that his father was a titan compared to Claudius who is being portrayed as a satyr which is a sex addict. He believes that Claudius will be no where near a better king than his father. And I do believe he is right.
1. I wouldn’t of used this word because if wouldn’t fit in as well as the word solid. The word sullied meads If I were hired as the editor of Shakespeare’s hamlet I would not have used the word sullied. I dirty and solid means to kill one’s self. Solid meaning to kill one’s self one match what hamlet was feeling better then the word sullied.
ReplyDelete2. Hamlets attitude toward his own life is very angry depressed and he also feels betrayed. Hamlet does not know why his mother is marrying his uncle. If I were in hamlets situation I would feel the same way pissed off and confused. This attitude towards life that he has is approached because he feels the same way any boy would feel if their father died and a month after their mother married their uncle.
3. The imagery given is that he feels that he is no good now that his father has died and he feels that everyone has betrayed him. All the metaphors that he uses fit into his life very good. Once being controlled by his father and now that he is dead he is angry because now his father’s brother is going to take over because his mother is going to marry him.
4. “A little month or ere those shoes were old” hamlet says this about his mother because a month after his father died his mother is now going to marry his uncle. He is very upset with all of this and hates her for doing it. Another quote is “ o god a beast that wants discourse of reason” this is calling his mother a beast for being able to marry her prier husbands brother only a month after his death.
5. Hamlet thinks of his father as godlike and does not like his uncle and thinks of him as bestial. By the comparison that hamlet makes to his father he shows how much he loved his dad and is very upset with his mother’s decision to marry his uncle who he is starting to hate more and more.
1.) I agree with the editors of The New Cambridge Shakespeare for placing the word solid in to the text. Hamlet doesn’t want to burn off his guilt (sullied), he wants to kill himself but can’t because it is a sin. He feels no guilt but on the other hand he thinks his mother should burn off her sullied because she needs to wake up and realize that her husband just died only a month ago.
ReplyDelete2.) Hamlet hates his life. His dad just died, his mom just remarried within a month of the death to his brother, his girl friend’s family doesn’t want her to see him any more, and he can’t go back to school to escape all of this. If it wasn’t a sin then he probably would of already of killed himself but who wouldn’t think of that. It’s screwed up when his mom remarries within a month and it’s even more f***ed up because it’s to his uncle. I would question my mom’s love towards my dad but then ask why to his uncle when there are so many others. Then if my girlfriends’ family wouldn’t let me see my girlfriend I would honestly fight them and if she didn’t want to see me any more then I would just become king.
3.) I would be so mad at my mom and would just disown her. I would simply get my girl and leave as soon as possible and if that didn’t work I would go on a fighting spree. I would start my own reign of terror be starting of with my uncle and then my girlfriend’s dad. I would lock my mother I a tower so she could actually grieve the death of my father and if I couldn’t make my girlfriend queen then I would cheat on my wife.
4.) hamlet hates his mother because she married his uncle after a month of his father’s death, who wouldn’t be mad. He questions the love of his mother towards his father or if she even loved him? Then he asks that even if his uncle wasn’t the one she married then would she of married that soon? It doesn’t matter now though because you can’t change the past and his life’s already messed up so you got to do what you got to do. I look forward to she how Hamlet deals with this situation.
5.) Hamlet compares his father to Claudius being the same as comparing himself to Hercules. FYI if you didn’t know that Hercules is the strongest super being ever in Greek mythology but I’m only throwing that out there. He also questions what she sees in his uncle that she didn’t see in any other man. I also feel like that the way he describes his father that he is still more of a man died than any other living man in Denmark including Claudius.
1. In the first line of Hamlet’s soliloquy, I would choose the word solid over the word sullied. Solid flesh melting reminds me of a being trying to disappear from the world, while sullied just means dirty flesh melting. Hamlet wants to disappear from the situation of which he is stuck with his mother and her newlywed husband, Claudius, Hamlet’s uncle. Hamlet doesn’t like the situation and just wants to get out of it. Therefore, solid is the appropriate word.
ReplyDelete2. Hamlet is very depressed in the life he is currently living. His father passes away and within a month his mother is married to the former king’s brother. His attitude is justified because he is a young man and is feeling betrayed by both his mother and his uncle. Any young man would react in such a manner towards this marriage. Hamlet disagrees with the marriage and that Claudius is taking the role as his father, too soon after his actual father has passed.
3. Hamlet feels as if he is no good since his father died. He also feels that the world has lost all care and compassion for life. All metaphors used in the passage describe his situation well. He is extremely upset due to the loss of the father and is very upset over the new marriage. Anyone in this situation would be upset.
4. "A little month, or ere those shoes were old .With which she follow'd my poor father's body." This describes the situation with the mother well. In about a month, she forgot about Hamlet he deceased husband and is now after her deceased husband's brother. Young Hamlet looked highly to his mother but now isn't to sure if he should continue.
5. Hamlet believes that his father compared highly to Claudius. "So excellent a king; that was, to this,
Hyperion to a satyr." He compares his father to Hyperion, a titan and compares Claudius to a satyr or lecher. He believes that Claudius could never match up to his father. To me, this seems quite logical.
1) I Think that I would choose the word sullied Because the word sullied means dirty. The other word solid would make himself want to melt and that wouldn’t make sense. The line says he wants to get ride of all his quilt and start over. He wants to get rid of all his quilt and completely start over.
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3) Hamlets attitude is not good he is depressed. His father died, and his mother remarried to his brother in the same month of his death. Because of what his mom has done he is grieving and it is even worse because another family member betrayed him his uncle so he sort of has no one and with his father being dead he feels alone and that makes his grief even worse. I would be mostly mad at my uncle because I feel like his mother needs some sort of support so she sort of took what she could get so she didn’t have to be alone and unfortunetly that has to be her dead husbands brother which is just weird and gross. Hamlet is very upset and has no one to turn to.
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5) When Hamlet describes how he feels about the world he uses imagery he wants to melt, and resolve he is using this and it shows us that he is depressed because that’s how depressed people feel but clearly he is going to be depressed when his mother marries his uncle and his father dies I would be just as depressed.
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7) Hamlet is extremely angry at his mother for what she did and is mad at his uncle too but his mother was wrong for remarrying so soon she should be just as sad if not more then hamlet and want nothing to do with another man because her husband just died that she was supposed to love it shows disrespect for hamlet and his father because of course she has to move on at some point but not so fast, and not with his brother that’s just even worse.
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9) Hamlet has different attitudes for his father and his uncle Claudius. He is angry at his uncle for marrying his brothers wife right after his death. Hamlet Grieves the lose of his father and truly misses him. He compares his father to a god and his uncle to a beast.
1. If I was the editor of hamlet I believe that I would choose Sullied instead of solid because it means dirty or filthy which shows that hamlet wants us to feel what his guilt about his uncle and his mother getting married which would fit better than if I was to choose solid. its meaning would be to literal which is wanting himself to melt.
ReplyDelete2. Hamlet has a bad attitude towards his own life. He is upset with the loss of his father and his mom getting remarried to his uncle so soon. He feels betrayed by his own family, angry and sad which he has every right to be. If he didn’t believe that committing suicide was a sin he would do it . if I was in his shoes im sure that I would make my mom and uncle/fathers hell
3. In the silioquy hamlet described his view of the world as “tis an unweeded garden,” basically what hamlet is trying to say that “weeded” is a never ending problem and that its hopeless and “garden” is that problems are just lets to grow bigger and bigger with no one to handle them
4. Hamlets feelings about his mother are not good he is mad at her for not felling anything about his father dieing and the fact the she remarried his uncle a month later was was really set him over the edge. He is more mad at his mom than his uncle because his mom should still be upset about her husband death and not marrying another man. “ a little month, or ere those shoes were old with which she follow’d my poor father’s body” what that quote is saying is that his mother went to fast she married and got over her loss to quick.
5. Hamlet has two completely different views when it comes to his father and his uncle. He really hates his uncle for marrying his mother after his brother’s death he compares him to Satyr which stands for promiscuity. But on the other hand he loves his father very much and is very upset about his death and compares him to Hercules the Great greek warrior. He compares his uncle as a beat and his father as a God.
1. I would choose the word solid over the word sullied. Solid flesh melting to me means that Hamlet wants to leave this world and sullied means just dirty flesh. Hamlet wants to leave this situation he is living with his mom and his new father who is his uncle, Claudius. Hamlet just wants to leave this situation which is why I think solid is the best word.
ReplyDelete2. Hamlet lives a very depressed life since he cannot see Ophelia, his father died, and his uncle married his mother. His attitude is justified because he feels like he is being betrayed by his uncle and mother. He does not like the fact that his uncle has married his mother shortly after his father’s death.
3. He feels like he does not belong in the world since he is doing nothing to stop this. He feels like the world does not love him. All the metaphors used have expressed his life right now. Any man who has had this done to him would react in a similar way.
4. The quote: "A little month, or ere those shoes were old .With which she followed my poor father's body." describes the situation with the mother. In a month she forgets about her husband who has died and marries his brother.
5. The quote, "So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr." compares his father to Hyperion who is a titan and compares Claudius to a satyr. Hamlet thinks that Claudius will never be as great as his father was.
1. I would personally choose the word “sullied” rather than the word solid” for the new edition of Hamlet I would be editing. This is because the meaning for sullied is dirty. In his soliloquy Hamlet says that he wants to lose all of his guilt and start over, so metaphorically it would make more sense to say sullied instead of solid. If the new version had the word solid than it would be more literal and that he would want himself melt.
ReplyDelete2. Hamlet does not have to best attitude towards his own life. His feelings are the way they are because for one, his father just died, and two his mother remarries his uncle within a month of his father’s death. With his life situation I think that his attitude is justified because he is probably feeling lonely and confused of why his family is making the decisions that they are. At this point Hamlet doesn’t really care if he lives or dies. Even though you can tell that Hamlet is mad at his mother, I would have been angrier at my uncle for not having any sympathy for me or my mother.
3. Hamlet is unsure of his own existence, which is mostly because of why he has not done anything to compensate his aggression towards his mother and uncle. I would be very angry with both my mother, and my uncle. I think I would have acted on the situation a lot sooner than Hamlet too.
4. Between Hamlet’s mother and his uncle I think that Hamlet is more angry and disappointed with his mother. For anybody, especially Hamlet, it is very difficult for him to understand why his mother remarried someone only after one month of her husband being gone. You can clearly see Hamlet’s confusing in the quote, “She married. O, most wicked speed”, which he is basically saying my mother got married to another man too quickly. In this quote, “would have mourn’d longer—married with my uncle”, he’s trying to say that she should have been sadder longer before she remarried to somebody else, even his uncle.
5. Before Hamlet’s father was killed, I would think that his family was living a normal life. Hamlet loved his father and probably had nothing against his uncle. After his father was killed, Hamlet was clearly confused of why this happened, but he became for confused when he saw his father’s spirit/ghost that told Hamlet that Claudius murdered him. At this point Hamlet is obviously watching his uncle more closely, and now he doesn’t really want anything to do with his uncle especially because he married Hamlet’s mother soon after the death of his father.