Do Now: Some critics suggest that Claudius's rule of Denmark turns the kingdom into an authoritarian state that keeps a close watch on all of its subjects and imposes a "militant regulation of speech." According to Michael Neill, Hamlet finds two ways to cope with this “enforced silence”:
The "pregnant" wordplay of his "mad" satire, as Polonius uneasily recognizes (II.ii.226-27), is one way, but it amounts to no more than inconclusive verbal fencing. Soliloquy is a more powerful resource because, since it is heard by no one (except the audience), its impenetrable privacy defines Hamlet's independence from the corrupt public world.
How is Hamlet apart from the “corrupt public world”? In other words, what does he value that Claudius and those in his court do not (e.g., Polonius) value?
Today's Learning Target:
I will be able to examine the subtext of Hamlet through motifs and other literary devices.
I will know that I have hit the learning target when...
-I can locate an example of one of the motifs and/or additional devices in II.ii and explain a big idea it emphasizes.
-I can discuss an additional literary device that is used repeatedly in the play.
1. Some fun literary devices
2. II.ii
3. Hamlet's third soliloquy
4. Exit Ticket:
HW: TP2 rough draft due 12/15
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