Thursday, March 31, 2016

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Blog #26: Hamlet AP Test Prep Materials

Prompt: 1976. Conflict created when an individual opposes the will of the majority. Analyze the conflict and analyze the moral and ethical implications for society.

3x3
Hamlet meets (the) ghost = Call to Adventure
Hamlet feigns insanity = Crossing the Threshold
Hamlet gets revenge = Reward

Thesis: In "Hamlet", William Shakespeare examines objection and rebellion. After the king's death, Hamlet struggles to risk his image and claim to Heaven in order to avenge his father's death.

Quotes:
"[Hamlet's antic disposition] is a general disgust with life so sweeping that it makes him suicidal, oblivious to the contingencies of the particular situation and incapable of action." (1)

"How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable / seem to me all the uses of this world." (1.2.133-134)

"The funeral bak'd meats / did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables" (1.2.180-181)

"The serpent that did sting my father's life now wears his crown" (1.5.38-39)

"The examples in the "To Be" speech are generalized and unconnected with the speaker's actual and particular circumstances" (3)

"Hamlet tells them that he is overwhelmed by disgust with every aspect of the world" (3)