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Grief
Guilt
Fate
Ambition
Revenge |
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| Intense metal anguish; deep remorse; acute sorrow or the like |
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| The fact of being responsible for an offense or wrongdoing; remorseful awareness of having done something wrong |
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| The supposed force, principle, or power that predetermines events; the inevitable event or events predestined by this force |
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An eager or strong desire to achieve something, such as fame or fortune; the will to succeed
The object or goal desired |
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To inflict punishment in return for injury or insult; avenge
To seek or take vengeance for oneself or another person |
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| Placing one major and one minor character in proximity to one another to note their similarities and highlight their differences |
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one of the four fluids of an animal or plant entering into the constitution of the body
the balance of the humours in the body, or lack of balance, determines a person's health and temperament |
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| The Correspondence of the Four Humours |
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Blood:
-Air
-Hot and moist
-"Sanguine"
-Amorous, happy, generous
Yellow Bile:
-Fire
-Hot and dry
-"Choleric"
-Violent and vengeful
Phlegm:
-Water
-Cold and moist
-"Phlegmatic"
-Dull, pale, cowardly
Black Bile:
-Earth
-cold and dry
-"Melancholic"
-Gluttonous, lazy, sentimental |
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sturdiness
high color
cheerfulness |
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a hot temper
a lack of patience |
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an impassive state of being
a blank expression
a lack of emotion |
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a depressed state of mind
an inability to take action
an impression of sadness |
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| Why do the Four Humours matter? |
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-a person's personal characteristics were explained by his or her temperament (state of humours)
-Perfect temperament resulted when none of the humours dominated
-In 1600, it was common to classify characters by humours |
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| Shakespeare's parents and their roles |
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John: leather maker
Mary: lively and intelligent, very important to Shakespeare |
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| What is Shakespeare's early life called and why? |
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| Lost Years- not much is known during this period |
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| Shakespeare's first wife and how they got married |
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Anne Hathaway
6 years older
Got pregnant when Shakespeare was 18 |
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| Shakespeare's three children |
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| What did Shakespeare write? |
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Sonnets
Poems
Plays- comedies and tragedies |
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| Who was Shakespeare supposedly having an affair with? |
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| Who were common characters in Shakespeare's poems? What was disturbing about them? |
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"Him" (Earl of South Hampton?)
"The Dark Lady": unhappy, regretful, obsessive love
Angry with both loves |
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| Shakespeare's family resided in ______ while Shakespeare wrote in _______. |
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Stratford Upon Haven
London |
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| Why was Shakespeare's marriage supposedly loveless? |
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Not many happy marriages in his plays
Left her his "second best bed" |
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| Why were theaters closed on and off during the 1590's? |
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| What and when did the cruelest imaginable event happen to Shakespeare? What was it so cruel? |
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Summer 1596
Only son, Hamnet died at 11
Meant no money or land to be inherited no matter how much Shakespeare made |
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| What was so significant about Hamlet? |
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Reflected Shakespeare's life more
Shakespeare greatly improved in his writing |
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Moved plank by plank
Partly owned by Shakespeare |
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| What was so significant about Julius Caesar? |
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First play at the Globe
No costumes, actresses, or scenery
Made Shakespeare convince audience with words |
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| What was significant about the Globe burning down? |
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1613
New Globe built without Shakespeare
Shakespeare retires wealthy and well respected |
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| How and when did Shakespeare die? |
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Shakespeare was partying too hard and fell ill
Died on his birthday |
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| When were Shakespeare's works published? |
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Seven years after death
By good friend and rival |
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TF
In Scene 1, the Ghost speaks to Horatio |
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The Ghost appearss to be dressed in the same outfit that King Hamlet was wearing when he was in battle |
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Hamlet and Horatio are schoolmates from university |
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The Ghost faded on the striking of Elsinore's Cathedral bells |
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Young Fortinbras is characterized as courageous and vengeful |
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Polonius has very similar advice for both his children: stay away from Hamlet |
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Denmark is known for its sobriety |
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Horatio warns Hamlet that the Ghost may cause him to lose his mind |
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In order to please the Ghost, Hamlet must commit regicide, patricide, and matricide |
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| "My hour is almost come, When I to sulfurous and tormenting flames, Must reder up myself" |
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| "I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, As watchman to my heart, But, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and throny way to heaven, Whiles like a puffed and recless libertine, Himeself the primrose path of [flirtation] treads, And [does not heed his own advice]" |
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| "O, most wicked speed, to post with such dexerity to incetuous sheets!" |
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| "You are the most immediate to our throne" |
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| "but I have that within which passes show, there but the trappings and the suits of woe." |
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| "This above all: to thine own self be true." |
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| "these are but wile and whirling words, my lord" |
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| "But know, thou noble youth, the serpent that did sting they father's life now wears his crown." |
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| "O God, God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all uses of this world!" |
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| "'Tis told me, he hath very oft of late given private time to you, and you yourself have of your audience been most free and bounteous" |
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Rosencrantz tells Hamlet that his favorite players, the historians, are coming to Elsinore |
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| Hamlet's BFF from Wittenburg school |
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| Who are Marcellus, Francisco, and Bernardo? |
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Brother to King Fortinbras
Uncle to Prince Fortinbras |
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| Who is a foil for Hamlet? |
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| Who is the adviser to King Claudias? |
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| What is Polonius' operating principle? |
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wants to maintain his image
doesn't trust people/suspicious (leads to spying)
makes decisions quickly
always confident that he is right (FATAL FLAW) |
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| What is Hamlet's operating principle? |
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Can't make a decision, doesn't trust himself
Always wonders if he is wrong (he remains static, can't move forward)
He things mankind is bad |
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| What is Ophelia's operating principle? |
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Believes that Hamlet loves loves her (stuck, can't do anything/move on)
Fears being alone (she basically is) |
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| What is Claudias' operating principle? |
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| Nothing gets in the way of his ambition |
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| Do operating principles change? |
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| No, because then you couldn't believe the character |
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