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Predictions for June 2008 Hamlet/Lyrical

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LOL i get you.
well i duno i think itll be pretty much how does lyrical ballads convey some idea, i reckon one of them will be imagination/supernatural.

with the parent child relationships, thats unlikely to come up, as its on very few poems you can use!

Reply 61

~*Pwincess*~

shall we all have a bet as to whats gonna cum up im thinkin childhood/imagination

Reply 62

Dani1989

It would be a godsend if Childhood came up for Lyrical Ballads and Ophelia for Hamlet.

Reply 63

Galatea

I'm hoping for Horatio and the supernatural! (wish I hadn't said that, don't want to jinx it now...)

Reply 64

spaceape

what is there to write about horatio?!

Reply 65

willenium

that he's a lovely chap? that's pretty much it

Reply 66

willenium

if ophelia and outsiders in society come up i will be so pleased

Reply 67

~*Pwincess*~

didn't outsiders in society come up in Jan 08

Reply 68

willenium

i don't know, did it?

Reply 69

little_libertine

~*Pwincess*~

is everyone revising nature and social inequalities :s-smilie:

I thought there was no point since it came up in Jan ? :

agreed

im looking at childhood, and imagination, and revising revolutionary context.

Reply 70

little_libertine

Galatea

I'm hoping for Horatio and the supernatural! (wish I hadn't said that, don't want to jinx it now...)

oh noo hasnt horatio come up?

Reply 71

laura____x

little_libertine

oh noo hasnt horatio come up?

nope he hasnt...unfortunately :frown:

Reply 72

willenium

a question on just horatio would be pretty hard because he's such a one-dimensional character

Reply 73

laura____x

yehhh i agree with that!!
i dont think itll be a sufficiently broad question for an exam
he acts as a narrative and the "chorus"
theres not much else to say...

Reply 74

willenium

if there's a question on horatio it will be a question on minor characters in general, so the role of horatio and laertes or r&g or whatever

Reply 75

Galatea

There's quite a bit to write about Horatio; how he acts as a soundboard for Hamlet's real thoughts and feelings; the devices for revealing Hamlet's true thoughts are both his soliloquies, but also his discourse with Horatio, so Horatio has an important dramatic function in that respect; he acts as a contrast to R and G, as he remains detached and uncorrupted by the court of Elsinore.

He also legitimises and authenticates to appearance of the Ghost; he is a scholar, unlikely to be swayed by suspersition, so his acceptance of the Ghost affirms its objective existence; it is not figment of Hamlet's imagination, or the guard's superstitions.

He also reveals how Hamlet's quest for revenge has corrupted the revenger; "what a King is this" by pointing out that it was unnecessary for Hamlet to kill R and G. Horatio is instrumental in showing that Hamlet is on the path to destruction.

Reply 76

~*Pwincess*~

could someone post up how they would approach answering a question on childhood and imagination. as always im leaving my revision to the last minuite and the poems are so looong to go through in detail one by one I no which poems go into the theme of childhood presumably we are seven; anecdote for fathers and the nightingale however there is very little to say I mean my essays are about a page long :< theres just not enoughg to say

Reply 77

~*Pwincess*~

these are my notes on childhood I know its very little so I would appretiate if anyone would add on

Theme of childhood
. The nightingale
. Anecdote for fathers
. we are seven

The nightingale-
" with the night he may associate joy" innocence of a child breaking away from adult stereotypes.

" and i deem it wise to make him natures playmate"

Anecdote for fathers-

" could I but teach the hundreth part of what from thee I learn" Adults can learn alot of from children.

We are seven-

" Then ye are only five" the man tries to argue using reason and logic the very things romanticism tried to conqer

" Nay we are seven" In the end the child has won the argument

That is all I have has anybody got anything they can add :\ and would someone post up some notes for imagination ARGH! I hate this unit

Reply 78

x_LiNk_x

Is it worth revising nature properly for this exam tomorrow?

Seeing as it came up so bluntly in January, I can't see them asking directly about it this time round.

Would it be worth just knowing the other themes, such as Childhood, Imagination, Supernatural and Romanticism well?

Help please, I am really panicking!

Reply 79

willenium

people need to stop worrying so much

skim nature but since this is such a new topic and it's come up once chances are it won't come up again, but nobody can make particularly accurate predictions because we're all in the same boat