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AQA Hamlet Exam A2
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For the act 5 sc 2 one you could put about how it ties up the themes or not
eg. madness - do we come to a conclusion of whether hammy is mad?
ghost - do we find out whether it's real or not?
gertrude - do we find out if she was in on the plot? who she loved most?
disease - see how the court of denmark implodes
revenge - do we see it carried out satisfactorily?
appearance - is everyone their real selves?
spying - are people telling the truth??
do you think they're likely to ask a scene question?
eg. madness - do we come to a conclusion of whether hammy is mad?
ghost - do we find out whether it's real or not?
gertrude - do we find out if she was in on the plot? who she loved most?
disease - see how the court of denmark implodes
revenge - do we see it carried out satisfactorily?
appearance - is everyone their real selves?
spying - are people telling the truth??
do you think they're likely to ask a scene question?
sonrisa
appearance versus reality i think is like polinus thinking that hamlet is very much in love with ophelia beacause of the letter, it just appears that way it appears that his madness is due to the love for ophelia calling it the very 'ecstasy' of young love yet in relaity hes apperntly putting on his madness or if he is mad its at being torn between his mind and conscience and his role in seeking revenge for his father.
another one hamlet is mad in appearance ( how ophelia describes seeing him with 'no hat upon his head') with 'no hat but in relaity his answers mistaken for madness are actually very clever and witty just a play on words or he interprates a word in a different way
another, the appearance of the ghost the audience is lead to belive there is a ghost beacuse horatio hamlet and marcellus all see it, however Ophelia doesn't, so the audience cannot be compltely sure if there appears tobe a ghost or if the ghost is very real.
the court through Claudius' speech seems one of honest to start with for example he acts really honest about everything thats going on and appears to be a good king by the fact that he writes to Fortinbras uncle to stop Fortinbras from war, so it would seem he is very rational, but in relaity he is not rational he has killed his brother and married his wife showing the underlying corruption. he seems intelligent yet the court always drinks in celebration he actually really overindulgent in everything
it would appear with sending Laretes to go to France he has his best interests at heart, showing trust to someone on the court BUT he doesn't want hamlet to go showing his 'selfish' nature.
also, Hamlet is obsessed with appearance because when he has the chance to kill polonius he doesn't because he is in 'prayer' but he may just be thinking about how this deed would appear to old Hamlet beacuse it would send this man who killed his father straught to heaven
this is just from my head so i'm sorry if it doesn't make sense just some idea, hope it helps a little!
another one hamlet is mad in appearance ( how ophelia describes seeing him with 'no hat upon his head') with 'no hat but in relaity his answers mistaken for madness are actually very clever and witty just a play on words or he interprates a word in a different way
another, the appearance of the ghost the audience is lead to belive there is a ghost beacuse horatio hamlet and marcellus all see it, however Ophelia doesn't, so the audience cannot be compltely sure if there appears tobe a ghost or if the ghost is very real.
the court through Claudius' speech seems one of honest to start with for example he acts really honest about everything thats going on and appears to be a good king by the fact that he writes to Fortinbras uncle to stop Fortinbras from war, so it would seem he is very rational, but in relaity he is not rational he has killed his brother and married his wife showing the underlying corruption. he seems intelligent yet the court always drinks in celebration he actually really overindulgent in everything
it would appear with sending Laretes to go to France he has his best interests at heart, showing trust to someone on the court BUT he doesn't want hamlet to go showing his 'selfish' nature.
also, Hamlet is obsessed with appearance because when he has the chance to kill polonius he doesn't because he is in 'prayer' but he may just be thinking about how this deed would appear to old Hamlet beacuse it would send this man who killed his father straught to heaven
this is just from my head so i'm sorry if it doesn't make sense just some idea, hope it helps a little!
thankyouuuu i'm getting it now
sonrisa
another, the appearance of the ghost the audience is lead to belive there is a ghost beacuse horatio hamlet and marcellus all see it, however Ophelia doesn't, so the audience cannot be compltely sure if there appears tobe a ghost or if the ghost is very real.
also, Hamlet is obsessed with appearance because when he has the chance to kill polonius he doesn't because he is in 'prayer' but he may just be thinking about how this deed would appear to old Hamlet beacuse it would send this man who killed his father straught to heaven
this is just from my head so i'm sorry if it doesn't make sense just some idea, hope it helps a little!
another, the appearance of the ghost the audience is lead to belive there is a ghost beacuse horatio hamlet and marcellus all see it, however Ophelia doesn't, so the audience cannot be compltely sure if there appears tobe a ghost or if the ghost is very real.
also, Hamlet is obsessed with appearance because when he has the chance to kill polonius he doesn't because he is in 'prayer' but he may just be thinking about how this deed would appear to old Hamlet beacuse it would send this man who killed his father straught to heaven
this is just from my head so i'm sorry if it doesn't make sense just some idea, hope it helps a little!
I could be wrong, but, is it not Claudius he doesn't kill when in "prayer", prefering to murder him when he is "drunk" or in the "incestuous pleasures of his bed"?
Also, is it not Gertrude who does not see the Ghost, "To whom do you speak this?...Nothing at all. Yet all that is I see"
Perhaps you were just tired when posting, I just don't want to think I have completely false ideas!
So far I would feel confident on answering a question on
- Imagery ( sickness & decay)
- Appearance and Reality
- Women
-Madness
-The Ghost
- Location (Elsinore)
-Delay
-Revenge
-The opening scene
-The final scene
-Death
Im basically knackered if a character question comes up. Im scared. Do you think this is enough, will I be alright??? COs I really need to revise Blake and Product Design now!! aaaahhhh
Also, can anyone tell me how to differentiate between Hamlet the play and Hamlet the character when you are writing. Its something like you underline Hamlet the play and write Hamlet the character normally. Can someone confirm that for me please???
- Imagery ( sickness & decay)
- Appearance and Reality
- Women
-Madness
-The Ghost
- Location (Elsinore)
-Delay
-Revenge
-The opening scene
-The final scene
-Death
Im basically knackered if a character question comes up. Im scared. Do you think this is enough, will I be alright??? COs I really need to revise Blake and Product Design now!! aaaahhhh
Also, can anyone tell me how to differentiate between Hamlet the play and Hamlet the character when you are writing. Its something like you underline Hamlet the play and write Hamlet the character normally. Can someone confirm that for me please???
just thougth I would put up a couple of essays questions that we have done, hope they help:
Ophelia has been called pious, pure, and innocent victim, and disreputable. Rebecca West calls her talk with Hamlet "ugly chatter" while Michael Hattaway writes "she and Hamlet had presumeably been intimate..."
Re-read the previous enctounter between Ophelia and Hamlet (III.i.90-150) and the exchanges in this scene (III.ii.120-154, 245-253) before considering the following:
- how are such diverse reasings of Ophelia, Hamlet and their relationship possible?
- How do you read the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia?
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"A dangerous smoothie...a knave and amanipulator"
"A tedious old fool"
Explore the evidence for these two views of Polonius and establish your preferred reading of the character
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"The opening scene provides an introduction to key themes and sets the atmosphere for the whole play"
"the play gains pace and drama when the first scene is cut and we move straight to the tensions of the court scene"
Explore the reasons for subscribing to each of these two views, and establish your own preferred opening to the play
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Examine Shakespeare's presentation of Claudius. Does he have any redeeming features or is he merely a "damnedsmiling villain"?
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"Laertes is the rash and foolish revenger, intent on violence at any price"
"In Laertes, Shakespeare provides the noble, courageous revenger that Hamlet cannot be"
How do you respond to these different views?
What is your response to the presentation of Laertes?
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"Hamlet has all the elements of a revenge tragedy"
"In a sense, the subject of "Hamlet" is death"
Explore the reasons for subscribing to each of these views. Which best sums up the pay for you?
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"The play within a play is merely theatrical decoration"
"the play within a play is essential for plot and theme"
Explore the extent to which these statements are true. Which statement do you most agree with?
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and that's all I have....I am gonna do so badly on this exam....oh well. I can't remember, is there usualy a character question and a theme question? also, do you think they will ask questions with reference to a particular scene? eg. "To what extent would you say that Hamlet is truely mad in Act whatever Scene blah bla blah" cause if so I am screwed, I just don't know the scenes and their content off the top of my head. if you know what I mean? like, if they say what happens in that scene I am fine, but if they just say which scene it is I am dead.
Ophelia has been called pious, pure, and innocent victim, and disreputable. Rebecca West calls her talk with Hamlet "ugly chatter" while Michael Hattaway writes "she and Hamlet had presumeably been intimate..."
Re-read the previous enctounter between Ophelia and Hamlet (III.i.90-150) and the exchanges in this scene (III.ii.120-154, 245-253) before considering the following:
- how are such diverse reasings of Ophelia, Hamlet and their relationship possible?
- How do you read the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia?
----------------------------------------------------------------
"A dangerous smoothie...a knave and amanipulator"
"A tedious old fool"
Explore the evidence for these two views of Polonius and establish your preferred reading of the character
----------------------------------------------------------------
"The opening scene provides an introduction to key themes and sets the atmosphere for the whole play"
"the play gains pace and drama when the first scene is cut and we move straight to the tensions of the court scene"
Explore the reasons for subscribing to each of these two views, and establish your own preferred opening to the play
----------------------------------------------------------------
Examine Shakespeare's presentation of Claudius. Does he have any redeeming features or is he merely a "damnedsmiling villain"?
-----------------------------------------------------------------
"Laertes is the rash and foolish revenger, intent on violence at any price"
"In Laertes, Shakespeare provides the noble, courageous revenger that Hamlet cannot be"
How do you respond to these different views?
What is your response to the presentation of Laertes?
---------------------------------------------------------------------
"Hamlet has all the elements of a revenge tragedy"
"In a sense, the subject of "Hamlet" is death"
Explore the reasons for subscribing to each of these views. Which best sums up the pay for you?
--------------------------------------------------------------------
"The play within a play is merely theatrical decoration"
"the play within a play is essential for plot and theme"
Explore the extent to which these statements are true. Which statement do you most agree with?
-------------------------------------------------------------------
and that's all I have....I am gonna do so badly on this exam....oh well. I can't remember, is there usualy a character question and a theme question? also, do you think they will ask questions with reference to a particular scene? eg. "To what extent would you say that Hamlet is truely mad in Act whatever Scene blah bla blah" cause if so I am screwed, I just don't know the scenes and their content off the top of my head. if you know what I mean? like, if they say what happens in that scene I am fine, but if they just say which scene it is I am dead.
RosiRox
Mortality
I would talk about how Hamlet is obsessed with the idea of mortality and is always thinking about it
eg. - to be or not to be speech - whether suicide is the right answer
- deciding that conscience doth make cowards of us all because of a fear of what the afterlife might hold
- the graveyard scene - skull of yosric - hamlet is obsessed with death. he sees how everything returns to the ground eg. alexander the great becomes dust and can be used to stop an ale barrel or something [cant quite remember lol!]
- killing polonius and saying about we fat ourselves for maggots
- the idea that death is the only certainty - predestined fate - 'divinity rough-hew our ends'
- dad back from the dead - ghosts, afterlife
- hamlet kinda accepts death at the end and this is why he can kill claudius
- claudius praying in his room
Players
this is kinda the appearance vs. reality i guess but more about how everyone is playing a role
- hamlet = soldier/prince/man/scholar/mad etc. which one is he??
-claudius = king/husband/uncle/murderer
gertrude = mother/seductress
and how the players come along and hamlet feels most at home with them when he is acting - doesn't like being himself
kinda stuff like that!
don't take me on the quotes by the way coz im just remembering them off the top of my head and i dont think they're quite right!!
if you wanna know any other theme stuff just ask because it's good revision for me!!
AND
are people putting in critic's opinions??
do we need to do this?
I would talk about how Hamlet is obsessed with the idea of mortality and is always thinking about it
eg. - to be or not to be speech - whether suicide is the right answer
- deciding that conscience doth make cowards of us all because of a fear of what the afterlife might hold
- the graveyard scene - skull of yosric - hamlet is obsessed with death. he sees how everything returns to the ground eg. alexander the great becomes dust and can be used to stop an ale barrel or something [cant quite remember lol!]
- killing polonius and saying about we fat ourselves for maggots
- the idea that death is the only certainty - predestined fate - 'divinity rough-hew our ends'
- dad back from the dead - ghosts, afterlife
- hamlet kinda accepts death at the end and this is why he can kill claudius
- claudius praying in his room
Players
this is kinda the appearance vs. reality i guess but more about how everyone is playing a role
- hamlet = soldier/prince/man/scholar/mad etc. which one is he??
-claudius = king/husband/uncle/murderer
gertrude = mother/seductress
and how the players come along and hamlet feels most at home with them when he is acting - doesn't like being himself
kinda stuff like that!
don't take me on the quotes by the way coz im just remembering them off the top of my head and i dont think they're quite right!!
if you wanna know any other theme stuff just ask because it's good revision for me!!
AND
are people putting in critic's opinions??
do we need to do this?
it would help so so much for me to have some key themes with quotes.
please......
sonrisa
also, Hamlet is obsessed with appearance because when he has the chance to kill polonius he doesn't because he is in 'prayer' but he may just be thinking about how this deed would appear to old Hamlet beacuse it would send this man who killed his father straught to heaven
also, Hamlet is obsessed with appearance because when he has the chance to kill polonius he doesn't because he is in 'prayer' but he may just be thinking about how this deed would appear to old Hamlet beacuse it would send this man who killed his father straught to heaven
Thanks for all those points - really good.
But in case anyone writes this in their exam, i think you mean to say Claudius rather than Polonius.
(Apologies if someone has already written this.)
burnthepaedos
Also, can anyone tell me how to differentiate between Hamlet the play and Hamlet the character when you are writing. Its something like you underline Hamlet the play and write Hamlet the character normally. Can someone confirm that for me please???
Also, can anyone tell me how to differentiate between Hamlet the play and Hamlet the character when you are writing. Its something like you underline Hamlet the play and write Hamlet the character normally. Can someone confirm that for me please???
I would say put it in quotation marks, this is what I would do anyway. and then when you are referring to the character I would just write it normally.
Any idea what the question will be?
I'm hoping for one on Hamlet, or Claudius or at least Fortinbras/Laertes/Hamlet or a theme. I feel pretty confident with the image of Power/Madness/Delay. I doubt they'll be one on imagery because that'll be part of A03.
I hope it's not on the women!
I'm hoping for one on Hamlet, or Claudius or at least Fortinbras/Laertes/Hamlet or a theme. I feel pretty confident with the image of Power/Madness/Delay. I doubt they'll be one on imagery because that'll be part of A03.
I hope it's not on the women!
burnthepaedos
Also, can anyone tell me how to differentiate between Hamlet the play and Hamlet the character when you are writing. Its something like you underline Hamlet the play and write Hamlet the character normally. Can someone confirm that for me please???
Also, can anyone tell me how to differentiate between Hamlet the play and Hamlet the character when you are writing. Its something like you underline Hamlet the play and write Hamlet the character normally. Can someone confirm that for me please???
'Hamlet' the play or Hamlet the play. (I would always write the play in quotations in your exam)
Hamlet is the character.
My teacher said to think about your own name. You wuldn't write your own name in quotes, and if you had a play written about you then you would.
Anyone got any good A03 points?? (apart from the hissing incestuous sheets)
Does everyone agree that we should just completely rule out revising for Polonius and Claudius as they both came up in January, apart from when their involved with themes etc?
all_or_nothing
Anyone got any good A03 points?? (apart from the hissing incestuous sheets)
In Literary terms, you could say things like 'Pathos' is used when a sense of grief or pity is expressed, e.g Ophelia's 'pretty madness'. Or in Act five when Horatio expresses the sadness of Hamlet's death- 'angels sing thee to thy death'.
But other than that my brain fails in the language and structure department.
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