Hamlet: Deceptive Appearances
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Theme: Deceptive Appearances
Storyboard Text
- Suit the action to theword, the word to the action, with this specialobservance, that you o’erstep not the modesty ofnature.
- I warrant your Honor. I hope we have reformed that indifferentlywith us,
- Since love our hearts and hymen did our hands, unite commutual in most sacred bands.
- So many journeys may the sun and moon, make us again count o’er ere love be done!
- Hamlet tells the players to reenact the murder as he imagines it took place. He instructs them to follow his directions.
- Give me some light. Away!
- The play begins. It shows a king and a queen who are in love.
- The Queen your mother, in most greataffliction of spirit, hath sent me to you.
- Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
- When the king falls asleep, someone pours poison into his ears. The king dies because of the poison. The man later seduces the queen.
- ’Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood And do such bitter business as the day
- The king realizes that this is exactly what he did. He begins to show signs of guilt and demands for the play to stop, the lights to be on, and then runs out to pray for his sins. Hamlet notices how guilty Claudius is and becomes determined to take revenge and uncover his deceptive appearance.
- After the king walks out, the queen does too. Queen Gertrude orders Rosencrantz and Guildenstern for Hamlet to meet her. When they tell Hamlet this, he realizes his friends are not loyal to him because the king and queen are using them to find out about Hamlet's next steps. So he confronts his friends about how he can't be manipulated and realizes his friends are also living under deceptive appearances.
- Hamlet becomes determined for revenge after realizing Claudius is the murderer of his father. He is enraged with anger because he has come across deceptive appearances. People such as Rosencrantz, Guildenstern and Claudius tried outsmarting Hamlet, but now that he uncovered those faces he seeks revenge.
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