Hamlet Storyboard
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- In Act 1 Scene 4, Hamlet sees the ghost of his late father and finds out that his father was murdered by his uncle who is now married to his mother.
- Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, A serpent stung me. So the whole ear of Denmark is by a forged process of my death rankly abused. But know, thou noble youth, the serpent that did sting thy father's life. Now wears his crown.
- In this aside Hamlet talks about how he does not like Claudius calling him his son.
- A little more than kin and a little less than kind
- O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason / Would have mourned longer!—married with my uncle, / My father’s brother … Within a month, / Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears / Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, / She married”.
- Less than 2 months after the death of her husband, Gertrude marries his brother and he becomes king
- Hamlet asks a group of actors to play "The Murder of Gonzago" so he can see if Claudius feels guilty
- Dost thou hear me, old friend? Can you play ‘The Murder ofGonzago’?
- In his soliloquy, Hamlet's goal is to find enough passiom to avenge his father. Once he finally works up the courage, Hamlet starts to question if the ghost was real and if what he said was true.
- I'll observe his looks; I'll tent to the quick
- Claudius is basically telling Hamlet to get off his father's death and move on,
- For what we know must be and is as common As any the most vulgar thing to sense,100Why should we in our peevish oppositionTake it to heart? Fie! 'Tis a fault to heaven,A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,To reason most absurd, whose common themeIs death of fathers
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