The "Revenge" Group (Group 2) should answer TWO of
the following questions. The members of the group are Liv C, Marissa M, Tara S,
Jordan H, Kele P, Cody T, Estelle L, Anthony J, Casi B, Zach W, Brookelyn L
Q1: What did watching the 2009 BBC Hamlet help you
see, notice, or understand about the play as you started reading? How did the
performance “solve” some aspect of the play that might have otherwise confused
you? Would you recommend other students watch this version first before reading
the play?
Q2: One of Hamlet’s most famous speeches occurs very early in
the play: Act One, scene 2, which begins, “O, that is too, too sullied flesh
would melt” (29). What is he complaining about in this soliloquy (poetic
monologue)? Try to read this speech like a poem and find a metaphor that can
help you interpret his complaint as a whole (for example, why should “sullied
flesh” melt?). Since this is our first big moment with Hamlet, does this speech
make us sympathetic for him? Or wary of him?
Q3: Why do Ophelia’s brother (Laertes) and father (Polonius)
distrust Hamlet so much? Why don’t they encourage his attentions (and as she
thinks, love) towards her? Wouldn’t it be a good match for her to marry a king’s
son, the Prince of Denmark?
Q4: Why might Polonius strike you as a Machiavellian figure,
or at least someone who has read The Prince thoroughly? Consider the
advice he gives both his son and his daughter, and how he comes across in the
play in general.
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