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Hamlet Act 4 Scene 5. By: Hannah Brower and Yuzuka Ieta. Summary. Ophelia has gone mad with grief of her dead father Ophelia approaches Gertrude but speaks only in poems and songs - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
By: Hannah Brower and Yuzuka Ieta
Hamlet Act 4 Scene 5
Summary•Ophelia has gone mad with grief of her dead father
•Ophelia approaches Gertrude but speaks only in poems and songs
•Claudius enters and comments on Ophelia’s madness but also states that Laertes has secretly sailed back from France
•Laertes enters, followed by a mob of commoners shouting that Laertes is to be king
•Claudius tries to calm Laertes who is furious over his father’s death
•Ophelia enters and sends Laertes into another fit of rage upon seeing his insane sister
•Claudius says that he is not to blame for the death of Polonius, but that he can help Laertes seek revenge upon the proper person
Sentence Structure
Speaks in songs/poemsShows she is mad“How should I your true love know
From another one?By his cockle hat and staff
And his sandal shoon.”Lines 23-26
Ophelia
Speaks in quick, short sentencesShows his anger and short temper“How came he dead? I’ll not be juggled with.”
Line 130
Laertes
Speaks in iambic pentameterShows he is calm and has not changed his
manner like the other characters have“When sorrows come, the come not single
spies…”Line 77
Claudius
Sentences are long, but broken up with commas
Shows deep thinking but an underlying tone of worry
“To my sick soul, as sin’s true nature is,Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss.So full of artless jealousy is guilt,It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”Lines 17-20
Gertrude
Literary Devices
Sexual Pun“Let in the maid that out a maid
Never departed more.”Lines 54-55
Pun
“O heat dry up my brains, tears seven times salt
Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye!”Lines 154-155
Hyperbole
“O heavens, is’t possible a young maid’s wits Should be as mortal as an old man’s life?”
Lines 159-160
Simile
Visual:“ There’s rosemary… and there is pansies…
There’s fennel for you and columbines. There's rue for you… There’s a daisy. I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died.” Lines 177-180
Imagery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfcsP-eKJF8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a1ks-S4UNU
Clips
Setting- quiet, outsideLighting- dull, monochromeCostumes- dirty, colorlessGives an impression of an extremely sad,
gloomy, and almost fearful tone
Hamlet (1990)
Setting- small, closed spaceLighting- darkCostumes- blacks and graysGives it a tone of anger and crazed madness
Hamlet (TV 2009)
Setting- indoors, wide open (she projects herself and it echoes)
Lighting- Bright whites (hints at an insane asylum)
Costumes- Straight jacketGives the tone of insanity and mocking
happiness
Hamlet (1996)
Everyone must take turns reading this passage and act it out in a way you think Ophelia would say it:
“I hope all will be well. We must be patient, but I cannot choose but to weep to think they would lay him I’th’ cold ground. My brother shall know of it, and so I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my couch. Good night ladies, good night sweet ladies, good night, good night.” pg 175 (lines 68-72)
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