In Act 2, Scene 2, Hamlet's rhetorical strategies reveal his introspection and self-criticism. He compares himself unfavorably to an actor who can express deep emotions over Queen Hecuba's fictional death, while he struggles to act on his real grief and anger over his father's murder. Hamlet...
Claudius has summoned Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two boyhood friends of Hamlet. He and Queen Gertrude feel that they can discover the cause of the Prince's apparent madness and send them to spy on him. They leave and Polonius enters. He reports that the ambassadors, sent to Norway, have...
Hamlet: Plot Summary (Acts 1 and 2) Act 1, Scene 1 Hamlet opens with the sentry, Francisco, keeping watch over the castle at Elsinore. He is relieved byBarnardo, who is joined shortly by Horatio and Marcellus.Barnardoand Marcellus reveal that they have witnessed an apparition: Marcellus. ...
Hamlet: Forbes-Robertson, JohnstonHamlet berates himself: “O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!” (Hamlet, Act II, scene 2, line 550), performed by Johnston Forbes-Robertson; from a 1928 recording. Hamlet contrives a plan to test the ghost’s accusation. With a group of visiting ...
Act 2, Scene 2“The spirit that I have seen May be a devil… I’ll have grounds More relative than this” Hamlet does not trust the ghost and seeks firmer evidence against Claudius. Act 3 In the next act, we see Polonius forcing Ophelia to return to Hamlet all of his tokens of love...
Summary Scene 1 Act Two begins withPoloniusspeaking to one of his servants,Reynaldo, about his son,Laertes, who has by this time returned to Paris. We see Polonius in the act of sending Reynaldo after Laertes to inquire into his son’s conduct. He instructs Reynaldo very precisely in the...
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For each cell, have students create a scene that follows the acts in order: Prologue, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Denouement. Act 1: Prologue The setting is Elsinore Castle, in Denmark. The former king of Demark has died, and a group of soldiers tell his son, ...
Hamlet Act I Summary Hamlet begins on a cold night with the changing of the guard. King Hamlet has died, and his brother Claudius has taken the throne. However, for the past two nights, the guards (Francisco and Bernardo) have seen a restless ghost resembling the old king wandering the ...