e purpose of the fever chart assignment for Hamlet is to allow you to do a close reading of the text, which will lead to a project that supplies evidence for the idea you are developing.
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e basic idea of a fever chart is that you are tracking a particular theme through the course of the play, using your own created ﴾SANITY­INSANITY﴿ scale as You can choose to do Hamlet alone, or you can have several lines for several di erent characters. Try to invent a new or fresh approach to the assignment. Try to prove something interesting about your particular theme or make a unique point about the play. 1
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A) “’Swounds, show me what thou’t do. Woo’t weep, woo’t fight, woo’t fast, woo’t tear thyself, Woo’t drink up easel, eat a corocodile? I’ll do ‘t. Dost (thou) come here to whine? To outface me with leaping in her grave?”
(Scene 1, Lines 290­295)
B) “But I am very sorry, good Horatio, That to Laertes I forgot myself, For by the image of my cause I see The portraiture of his.”
(Scene 2, Lines 85­88)
C) “Then Hamlet does it not; Hamlet denies it. Who does it, then? His madness. If ‘t be so, Hamlet is of the faction that is wronged; His madness is poor Hamlet’s enemy.”
(Scene 2, Lines 250­254)
D) “The point envenomed too! Then, venom, to thy work.”(Scene 2, Lines 352­353)
Act V
A) “Compounded it with dust, whereto ‘tis kin.”
(Scene 2, Line 7)
B) “Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e’en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet.”
(Scene 3, Lines 22­24)
C) “A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.”
(Scene 3, Lines 30­32)
D) “What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed/ A beast, no more. Sure He that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused.”
(Scene 4, Lines 35­41)
Act IV
A) “To be or not to be – that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And, by opposing, end them”
(Scene 1, Lines 64­68)
B) “If thou dost marry, I’ll give thee this plague for thy dowry.”(Scene 1, Lines 146­147)
C) “I have heard of your paintings (too,) well enough”.
(Scene 1, Lines 154­155)
D) “Excellent, I’faith, of the chameleon’s dish. I eat the air, promise­crammed. You cannot feed capons so.”
(Scene 2, Lines 99­101)
E) “Lady, shall I lie in your lap?”
(Scene 2, Line 119)
Act III
A) “For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a good kissing carrion­Have you a daughter?”
(Scene 2, Lines 197­199)
B) “’Twas Aeneas’ tale to Dido and thereabout of it, especially where he speaks of Priam’s slaughter.”
(Scene 2, Lines 471­473)
C) “O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!”
(Scene 2, Line 577)
D) “Bloody, bawdy villain! Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindles villain!”
(Scene 2, Lines 607­609)
E) I’ll have these players play something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle: I’ll observe his looks; I’ll tent him to the quick. If he do blench, I know my course.
(Scene 2, Lines 623­627)
Act II
A) “How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!” (Scene 2, Lines 137­138) B) “O, most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets!”
(Scene 2, Lines 161­162) C) “I do not set my life in a pin’s fee, And for my soul­what can it do to that, being a thing immortal as itself? It waves me forth again. I’ll follow it.” (Scene 4, Lines 73­76) D) “Yea, from the table of my memory I’ll wipe away all trivial, fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, that youth and observation copied there” (Scene 5, Lines 105­108) Act I
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Here's an example of Hamlet and the theme of deception: http://teckid1991.deviantart.com/art/Hamlet­Fever­Chart­117830840
Here's an example that traces Hamlet's emotions as he moves toward revenge
http://prezi.com/8idgnbfrdqwg/hamlet­fever­chart/
Hamlet's insanity vs. Gossip Girl?
http://prezi.com/yziyyb8jvfbb/hamlet­fever­chart/
Another Prezi: Insanity Meter
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Another example of the sane/insane question:
http://prezi.com/k1r­h8jm8kac/hamlet­fever­chart/
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