Wednesday, October 15, 2014

HAMLET ACT I SCENE I

My Notes:

  • Bernardo, Francisco, and Marcellus are all guards - guarding the gate of the castle.
  • Horatio is a scholar, who accompanied Marcellus. He's skeptical - only believes what he sees.
  • All four of them see the ghost of the king and the three of the guards urged Horatio to talk to it.
  • The ghost of the king - Hamlet Sr. - walked away without replying.
  • All of them decided to talk to Hamlet Jr. 

Class Notes:
  • Shakespeare attracts the audience's attention by keeping them in dark in terms of what the setting of the play is and how, when, and where events happened.
  • The castle is in Denmark.
  • The king died after acquiring land from Fortenbras.
  • Fortenbras Jr. now seeks revenge to get back what was rightfully his all along.

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