My group and I were thinking of answering the three questions by either using parts of the Hamlet movie where he says the quotes we are using as evidence and having a narrator in the back explaining our answers to the questions or using pictures instead of parts of the movie. So far what I've done is find the quotes for each of the questions and kind of explained what they mean and how they answer the questions. Also, my group and I already have a few pictures that maybe we can use in our digital essay.
This is what I've done so far and some of the images we have:
6. What significance is Ophelia to Hamlet... and to Hamlet?
“Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move,
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love.
O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers. I have not art to reckon my groans, but that I love thee best, oh, most best, believe it. Adieu.
Thine evermore, most dear lady,
Hamlet.” Letter Hamlet writes to Ophelia Act 2 Scene 2whilst this machine is to him,
"OPHELIA
But could beauty be related to anything better than goodness?
HAMLET
Ay, truly, for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness. This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. I did love you once.
OPHELIA
Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so.
HAMLET
You should not have believed me, for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it. I loved you not."
After Ophelia dies..
"I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers
Could not with all their quantity of love
Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her.....?
'Swounds, show me what thou'lt do.
Woo’t weep? Woo’t fight? Woo’t fast? Woo’t tear thyself?
Woo’t drink up eisel, eat a crocodile?
I’ll do ’t. Dost thou come here to whine,
To outface me with leaping in her grave?
Be buried quick with her?—and so will I.
And if thou prate of mountains let them throw
Millions of acres on us, till our ground,
Singeing his pate against the burning zone,
Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou'lt mouth,
I’ll rant as well as thou." Hamlet Act 5 Scene 1
It seems as if Hamlet loves Ophelia but treats her like nothing when he is pretending to be mad. Ophelia is somewhat important to Hamlet but not really because he never really mentions her or talks about her to her friends or anyone. She doesn't have a big impact in Hamlet's life, while Ophelia is definitely in love with Hamlet and it seems as though that's all she talks about in the play.
He uses her to cover up his craziness, he's mad with love supposedly. She ends up committing suicide after having to deal with all of Hamlet's nonsense and her father's death. She is also one of the only female characters, without her it would only be Gertrude who isn't a very strong character. She doesn't say much throughout the play, and is rather dense. Without Ophelia, Polonius probably wouldn't have been as interested in Hamlet's affairs, and his death wouldn't have been as big of a deal, besides the fact that Hamlet is a weirdo and has gone crazy. It seems like everyone is really losing their mind in this play. Ophelia ends up dead because of Hamlet, and her life is kind of sad.
8. Explain Hamlet's conflicted feelings about suicide.
"Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God, God!
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
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.
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
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 followed my poor father’s body,
Like Niobe, all tears. Why she, even she—
O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason
Would have mourned longer!—married with my uncle,
My father’s brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules. Within a month,
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her gallèd eyes,
She married. O most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not nor it cannot come to good,
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue." Act 1 scene 2
"Hamlet speaks these lines after enduring the unpleasant scene at Claudius and Gertrude’s court, then being asked by his mother and stepfather not to return to his studies at Wittenberg but to remain in Denmark, presumably against his wishes. Here, Hamlet thinks for the first time about suicide (desiring his flesh to “melt,” and wishing that God had not made “self-slaughter” a sin), saying that the world is “weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable.” In other words, suicide seems like a desirable alternative to life in a painful world, but Hamlet feels that the option of suicide is closed to him because it is forbidden by religion."
"To be, or not to be? That is the question—
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And, by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep—
No more—and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished! To die, to sleep.
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveler returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action" Hamlet Act 3 scene 1
12. Explain the treatment of women in Hamlet and it's effect on the play.
"POLONIUS
Marry, I’ll teach you. Think yourself a baby
That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay,
Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly,
Or—not to crack the wind of the poor phrase,
Running it thus—you’ll tender me a fool. " Act 1 scene 3
Women in Hamlet are expected to do whatever men tell them like if they were servants. Polonius lets Laertes go off to another country by himself to do as he pleases, but Ophelia has to do exactly what they both say.
GERTRUDE
"Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off,
And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
Do not forever with thy vailèd lids
Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
Thou know’st ’tis common. All that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity." Act 1 Scene 2
Gertrude is usually seen as stupid. She doesn't really think for herself she basically just does what Claudius tells her to do and is always following him everywhere, and a month after her husband's death she marries his brother.
"Let me not think on ’t. Frailty, thy name is woman!—
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she followed my poor father’s body,
Like Niobe, all tears. Why she, even she—
O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason
Would have mourned longer!—married with my uncle,
My father’s brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules. Within a month,
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her gallèd eyes,
She married. O most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not nor it cannot come to good,
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue." Hamlet
HAMLET
"Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me......If thou dost marry, I’ll give thee this plague for thy dowry. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go. Farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go, and quickly too. Farewell." Act 3 scene 1
I think the work I've done so far can probably help my group and I answer the questions and then from there make a good digital essay that answers the questions correctly and uses evidence from the book.
I think some challenges we might face in the next few days are probably with technology because with the idea about using parts of the Hamlet movie, none of us knew how to do that so we might have to figure that out and try to do it the best that we can. Also for the narration we will need the "nice" microphone but some groups are going to use it too so we will have to figure out a way to share it so that everyone gets a chance to use it. Also, maybe having enough time to finish it without rushing through it.
I think some back up plans we could have in case we don't get a chance of using the "nice" mic would be to maybe go into a very quiet place or office and record it with a computer or just stay after school or during lunch one day to use the "nice" mic. Also maybe try to each one in our group work on the digital essay during the 3 day weekend so that on Monday we are done and just have to edit a few things and be done and not rushing through it last minute.
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