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Aplin, Glory Bainbridge, Shafqat Rana, Jonassia Hendricks. Period 2, Group 5 Pre-AP English Literature and Composition. MAJOR WORKS DATA SHEET.
William Shakespeare, perhaps the greatest writer in the English language and praised throughout the world, was an English poet and playwright. He lived from 1564 to 1616. At first, Shakespeare wrote mainly comedies, but towards the later years of his life shifted to works of tragedy.
His plays have been translated into every language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. In Europe he is regarded as the “Bard of Avon,' national poet. He lived in Stratford- upon-Avon with his wife and three children, where he partly owned a called the. Hamlet, the son of the late King Hamlet of Denmark, is the protagonist of the play and is dealing with both inner and outer conflicts due to the recent death of his father.
After King Hamlet's death, his brother, Claudius, is given the crown and weds King Hamlet's widow, Gertrude (Queen of Denmark and Hamlet’s mother). Hamlet fears that Claudius murdered his own brother to become king of Denmark, and feels betrayed and agitated. Two officers, Marcellus and Barnardo, gather Hamlet's friend Horatio, and Hamlet to see the late King Hamlet's ghost appear at midnight. Hamlet claims the ghost informs him that Claudius has murdered King Hamlet by poisoning him. Hamlet is left feeling more anger than he already felt and plans revenge for his father’s murder. In planning his revenge, Hamlet appears to be acting like a mad man. Hamlet persuades an acting company to reenact the King's death before Claudius, in the hopes of causing Claudius to mentally collapse and admit to murdering the King.
Though Claudius grows angry, he does not admit to the murder. Hamlet's mother tries to reason with Hamlet after the play, while Polonius spies on them from behind a curtain. Hamlet hears Polonius, thinking it is Claudius, and kills him through the c urtain.
Hamlet regrets the murder when he finds out it was not Claudius. Claudius then sends Hamlet to England, accompanied by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Claudius instructs Rosencrantz and Gui ldenstern that the English kill Hamlet when they arrive in England. While traveling to England, Hamlet finds Claudius’s orders and changes them so that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are instructed to be killed. After this occurs, Hamlet is taken by pirates who return Hamlet to Claudius for a ransom. Claudius, who has already planned Hamlet’s death, arranges a sword duel between Laertes and Hamlet. Claudius plans to again use poison in murdering Hamlet.
Hamlet switches swords with Laertes, and cuts and poisons Laertes undermining Claudius’s plan and Hamlet’s mother dies also being poisoned mistakenly. As Laertes dies, he admits of Claudius' evil. Hamlet stabs Claudius and begins to reflect on the many deaths which have just occurred.
Hamlet instructs Horatio to share the true story of King Hamlet's death along with. Hamlet in Act III, scene i (58–90) speaks the infamous “To be or not to be” soliloquy. This powerful speech truly demonstrates Shakespeare’s ability to adequately express the complex workings of Hamlet’s mind.
The soliloquy is written in iambic pentameter, but each line has eleven syllables rather than ten, and the last of which is unstressed. This is a great example of a Shakespearian style which conveys intensity and reveals much about characters, by using a common meter of poetry, and altering it to add his own style. This speech is spoken by Polonius to Laertes shortly before Laertes leaves for France. Polonius, who is saying farewell to Laertes, gives him this list of instructions about how to behave before he sends him on his way. His fatherly advice is a list of typical sayings of advice. Keep your thoughts to yourself; do not act rashly; treat people with familiarity but not excessively so; hold on to old friends and be slow to trust new friends; avoid fighting but fight boldly if it is unavoidable; be a good listener; accept criticism but do not be judgmental; maintain a proper appearance; do not borrow or lend money; and be true to yourself.
This long list of quite normal fatherly advice emphasizes the regularity of Laertes’ family life compared to Hamlet’s, as well as demonstrating the stereotypical father-son relationship. Perhaps Shakespeare’s most famous soliloquy, this speech is Hamlet’s reflection of the moral legitimacy of suicide in a world full of pain. Hamlet reveals his inner conflict of whether or no t to commit suicide as a logical question: “To be, or not to be,” or in other words, to live or not to live. Hamlet then continues to weigh the positives and negatives of life and death.
Hamlet eventually concludes that the uncertainty of the afterlife is what prevents all of humanity from committing suicide to end the pain of life. The speech shows Hamlet’s deeply passionate nature, as well as his logical intellect to find a solution to his misery.
He has turned to religion and found it inadequate to help him either kill himself or resolve to kill Claudius. Hamlet’s logical philosophical realization leaves him frustrated just the same.