Act III
Scene I
- Guildenstern and Rosencrantz telling king and queen about how they saw Hamlet. They see his “crafty madness” and “forcing disposition”
- By looking like we’re doing the right thing we can show everyone- Polonius and Claudius
- Claudius shows his guilt
- Ophelia being set up to get info from hamlet
- Hamlet talking to Ophelia, rejects her, it’s easier to be beautiful and dishonest than honest and following that. Sees this in his mom
- All people hamlet talks to have a motive
- Women corrupt men
- Word madness = crazy or actually angry
- Claudius and Polonius were listening
- Claudius sees that it wasn’t bec of love, it was a little jumbled, he doesn’t want anything bad to happen to him or Hamlet, he wants the potential problem removed (hamlet)
- Polonius to Claudius, after the play, have Gertrude talk to Hamlet and he’ll listen secretly
Scene II
- Hall in castle, players with Hamlet
- Hamlet directs the players to act naturally, But also make it genuine
- It’s so logically and specifically set up that hamlet cannot be crazy, he’s super smart
- Don’t improvise
- Hamlet explains the plan to Horatio
- Hamlet asks horatio to watch king as the play goes on to double check what he sees
- he trusts Horatio
- when people come in he tells horatio that he's gunna act weird, acts crazy to the king, polonius,and Ophelia (makes comments to)
- the play goes on and when the poison is poured in to the king's ear, Claudius yells for the lights to turn on and leaves, everyone going after him excpet hamlet and horatio
Scene III
- hamlet is escorted by polonius to Gertrude
- polonius goes to king and tels him that he's going to spy, king who had just asked guildenstern and rosenctrantz to immediately take hamlet to England
- the king is alone and is guilty. We get to see the king really express himself and what he feels, sin as old as cane and able, he is not willing to give up the crown, falls on ground to pray
- hamlet comes to take the life of the king but sees that he's praying,cant kill him bec then he'd go to heaven and that would defeat the whole revenge thing
- claudius's praying wasn't truthful and meaningful, so hamelt totally couldve killed him but it shows how hamelt thinks through his decsions
Scene IV
- hamlet goes back to the queen's room, polonius is hiding behind a curtain
- queen is upset at hamlet for disrepecting his father (claudius) and hamlet fires back with her disrepecting his father (hamlet)
- queen is freakin out a bit cause hamlet is tad upset and she's getting scared so she screams, then polonius is moving fro the curtain and hamlet just goes for it and stabs the guy with a sword in the body, killing him
- he didn't know it was polonius and after the queen makes a comment he calls her out for killing hamlet and marrying his brother
- so polonius is dead on the ground and gertrude and hamlet are still talking, he's mad at her and asking why she married such an awful person and shows her old hamlet next to claudius, she's seeing how bad she was and pleads for him to stop but he wont
- the ghost of Hamlet comes back, but only Hamlet can see him
- the queen thinks he's crazy
- the ghost reminds him that his job is to kill claudius and to make peace with gertrude, she cant see the ghost and thinks he's crazy still,even though hamlet tells her that he was faking being crazy and not to tell claudius (she's only sayin yes because she's still freaked from him going off on her)
- he's burdenend by the sin of killing polonius
- he ends up dragging his body from the room
- he has to go to england with rose and guild and knows that theyre not loyal to him
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