Act V - Hamlet
“Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him…”
“Goodnight, sweet Prince.”
Vi – a graveyard
• 2 clowns (finally, some comic relief)
• Ophelia’s gravediggers joke on her
“suicide”
• Hamlet and Horatio arrive
• Hamlet ponders skull – Yorick the court
jester
• Hamlet watches Ophelia’s funeral
• Fights w/ Laertes
Vii
• Hamlet tells of letters he discovered on Ros. And
Guild. Asking that his head be chopped off
• Hamlet sent his own letter (this is very bad for
Ros. And Guild.)
• Osrick tells of wager
• Hamlet/Laertes fencing duel
• All major characters die: 1-4 How?
The rest is silence
• 5. What must Horatio now do?
• 6. What will happen to Denmark?
• 7. Discuss your opinion of the play’s conclusion. (1 paragraph)
• Test preview – You will be asked to re-write in contemporary English
a soliloquy from the play. Look for 1 or 2 that you could do this for.
Each pair of students should write Act, Scene, Lines on board. Must
be major soliloquys.
• There will also be some general questions about the play and some
of the recurring images/themes in the play – rot, poison, death.
• Study homework questions, character motivations, comparable
characters, “tragic justice”
• Open book
Hamlet Soliloquys
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Act 4, Scene 4 Page 101 (line 31)
Act 2, Scene 3 Page 63-64 (lines 56-89)
Act 3 Scene 3 Page 82 (lines 395-407)
Act 1 Scene 5 Page 31 (lines 92-110)
Act 1, scene 2, pages 14-15 (lines 129=159
Act 1 Scene 2, page 21-22 (lines 54-81 )
Act 2 Scene 2, Page 58-59 (lines 559-600)
Act 5, Scene I Page125 (lines 185-195)