By: Hannah Brower and Yuzuka Ieta
•Ophelia has gone mad with grief of her dead father
•Ophelia approaches Gertrude but speaks only in poems and songs
•Claudius enters and comments on Ophelia’s madness but also states that Laertes has
secretly sailed back from France
•Laertes enters, followed by a mob of commoners shouting that Laertes is to be king
•Claudius tries to calm Laertes who is furious over his father’s death
•Ophelia enters and sends Laertes into another fit of rage upon seeing his insane
sister
•Claudius says that he is not to blame for the death of Polonius, but that he can help
Laertes seek revenge upon the proper person
 Speaks in songs/poems
 Shows she is mad
 “How should I your true love know
From another one?
By his cockle hat and staff
And his sandal shoon.”
 Lines 23-26
 Speaks in quick, short sentences
 Shows his anger and short temper
 “How came he dead? I’ll not be juggled with.”
 Line 130
 Speaks in iambic pentameter
 Shows he is calm and has not changed his manner like
the other characters have
 “When sorrows come, the come not single spies…”
 Line 77
 Sentences are long, but broken up with commas
 Shows deep thinking but an underlying tone of worry
 “To my sick soul, as sin’s true nature is,
Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss.
So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”
 Lines 17-20
 Sexual Pun
“Let in the maid that out a maid
Never departed more.”
 Lines 54-55
“O heat dry up my brains, tears seven times salt
Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye!”
 Lines 154-155
“O heavens, is’t possible a young maid’s wits
Should be as mortal as an old man’s life?”
 Lines 159-160
 Visual:
“ There’s rosemary… and there is pansies… There’s fennel
for you and columbines. There's rue for you… There’s a
daisy. I would give you some violets, but they withered
all when my father died.”
 Lines 177-180
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfcsP-eKJF8
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a1ks-S4UNU
 Setting- quiet, outside
 Lighting- dull, monochrome
 Costumes- dirty, colorless
Gives an impression of an extremely sad, gloomy, and
almost fearful tone
 Setting- small, closed space
 Lighting- dark
 Costumes- blacks and grays
Gives it a tone of anger and crazed madness
 Setting- indoors, wide open (she projects herself and it
echoes)
 Lighting- Bright whites (hints at an insane asylum)
 Costumes- Straight jacket
Gives the tone of insanity and mocking happiness
Everyone must take turns reading this passage and act it
out in a way you think Ophelia would say it:
“I hope all will be well. We must be patient, but I
cannot choose but to weep to think they would lay
him I’th’ cold ground. My brother shall know of it,
and so I thank you for your good counsel. Come,
my couch. Good night ladies, good night sweet
ladies, good night, good night.” pg 175 (lines 68-72)