Act III
1. Does Hamlet behave differently toward Ophelia than Polonius and Laertes? How does he treat her during the “Mousetrap” play that the players perform?
Hamlet does behave differently towards Ophelia. He seems sort of disrespectful and playful at the same time with Ophelia. I believe he perhaps still has feelings for her but is in a conflict with his new beliefs about women.
1. Does Hamlet behave differently toward Ophelia than Polonius and Laertes? How does he treat her during the “Mousetrap” play that the players perform?
Hamlet does behave differently towards Ophelia. He seems sort of disrespectful and playful at the same time with Ophelia. I believe he perhaps still has feelings for her but is in a conflict with his new beliefs about women.
2. What is the point of the play Hamlet
calls “The Mousetrap” (The Murder of Gonzago)? What are the differences between
this version of a king’s murder and that which we have been told of in Hamlet?
The point of the play that was preformed was to unmask Claudius. Hamlet wanted to prove what the ghost said was right by targeting Claudius’s conscience. The characters are obviously different. There is also a lengthy conversation between the Queen and the King that leads to the break of a love promise to the king after his death. In the play, we get inside thoughts of what Hamlet believes that everyone was thinking that night of his father’s death.
The point of the play that was preformed was to unmask Claudius. Hamlet wanted to prove what the ghost said was right by targeting Claudius’s conscience. The characters are obviously different. There is also a lengthy conversation between the Queen and the King that leads to the break of a love promise to the king after his death. In the play, we get inside thoughts of what Hamlet believes that everyone was thinking that night of his father’s death.
3. At the end of 3.2, Hamlet “could
drink hot blood” (360) as he goes off to visit his mother. On the way, he finds
the King in prayer. Why does he not slay him in this moment (3.3.77 ff.)?
He doesn’t kill him at that moment because he feels like he should catch him when he is committing a sin not when he is trying to pray for forgiveness of his sins.
He doesn’t kill him at that moment because he feels like he should catch him when he is committing a sin not when he is trying to pray for forgiveness of his sins.
4. What is the intended purpose of
Hamlet’s visit to his mother’s chamber? How does he turn the tables on her?
What instructions does he give to her?
He turns the tables on her by
instead of answering her questions he works around them and directs them to
her. He starts off by sugar coding, he doesn’t directly tell her of what she
thinks of him but she eventually catches on. Before Hamlet went to speak to his
mother, he was determined that he was going to hurt her emotionally because he
would never kill her, his words will be as hurtful as a dagger.
He instructs his mother to be a pure
woman or at least pretend and try to be. He tells her not to sleep with the
King anymore and to fall for his temptations.
5. What happens to Polonius during the
conversation between Hamlet and Gertrude? Who else barges in on their
conversation?
Polonius is killed accidentally by
Hamlet. He was stabbed because he spoke and Hamlet thought and hoped it was
Claudius but it wasn’t. However. Hamlet didn’t care, he said that was what he
deserved for being a nosey man.
6. At the end of act 3, Hamlet reminds his mother that he has been sent on a foreign mission by the King (this resolution comes in 3.1) Where is he going? Why does Hamlet think he is being sent away?
The King is sending him to England
to try and get money they own them ( diplomatic business).
Hamlet thinks he is being sent away
because the King wants to get rid of him and therefore has sent his two “friends”
with him to do the job.
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