1、3.4 TragedyHamlet, Prince of Denmark1601Q: What is a tragedy?Tragedy is a work that treats, in a serious and dignified style, the misfortunes encountered by a heroic noble individual. HeroSubject Matter3.4.1 The StoryLeading CharactersHamletKing HamletGertrude ClaudiusOpheliaPoloniusLaertesRosencran

2、tz & GuildensternHoratio3.4.2 The Mystery of HamletQ: What is Hamlets tragic flaw? LaertesHow came he dead? Ill not be juggled with.To hell, allegiance! Vows to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation. To this point I stand, That both the worlds I give to neg

3、ligence,Let come what comes, only Ill be revengd Most throughly for my father. (Act 4 Scene 5)HamletWhy, what an ass am i! this is most brave,That I, the son of a dear father murderd,Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,Must like a whore unpack my heart with wordsAnd fall a-cursing like a very

4、drab,A scullion! Fie upont Foh! (Act 2 Scene2)Opinion 1 Hamlets delay is simply a convention of drama writing.Hesitation?Opinion 2 The inaction in Hamlet is caused by his Oedipus Complex. Opinion 3 Hamlet hesitates because the act drives him into a moral dilemma. Opinion 4 What Hamlet shrinks from i

5、s the real responsibility for the country. Opinion 4 What Hamlet shrinks from is the real responsibility for the country. 3.4.3 The Excerpt“To be or not to be” (Act 3 Scene1)Q: In this soliloquy, what is Hamlet meditating on? Disillusionment Life? World? Man? Woman? love?3.5 Sonnets3.5.1 Def. Sonnet

6、 is a 14-line poem in iambic pentameter with intertwining rhyme scheme. songsmall3.5 Sonnets3.5.1 Def. Sonnet is a 14-line poem in iambic pentameter with intertwining rhyme scheme. songsmallTest YourselfLife is but a walking shadowTrochaic tetrameter3.5.2 Shakespearean Sonnets154 sonnets suggesting

7、a story 1-17 18-126 127-1543 quatrains & 1 closing coupletRhyme scheme abab cdcd efef ggSonnet 18FormDevelopment of ideasQ1 Is it a good idea to compare “thee” to a summers day?Q2 Is the poem about beauty or about poetry?The time is out of joint-O cursed spite,That ever I was born to set it right! (

8、Act 1 Scene5)RhythmIambic eg. todayTrochaic eg. neverMeterMonometerDimeterTrimeterTetrameterPentameterHexameterHeptameterRhyme SchemeBid me to weep, and I will weep While I have eyes to see; And having none, and yet I will keep A heart to weep for thee. a b a bWhat piece of work is a man,How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in formAnd moving how express and admirable, in actionHow like an angel, in apprehension how like a god:The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals-Ha