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Act Five Scene Two
4. A line I really enjoyed was the line was when Hamlet said “If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart Absent thee from felicity a while, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain To tell my story.” (344-346) This line shows the Hamlet wants people to hear his story and wheat happened in his country. It was also shows the true depth of Hamlet and Horatio’s friendship, that Horatio is willing to die to be with Hamlet and then instead of doing what he wishes, he waits to be able to pass on what Hamlet has asked for him to do. The imagery is just a wonderful display of what is going on in this scene.

6. Hamlet’s relationship with his mother is really good in the last scene here. As Gertrude is dying, she wants Hamlet by saying, “No, no, the drink, the drink!—O my dear Hamlet! The drink, the drink! I am poisoned.” Even though their relationship has been strained within the last few months of their lives, they both managed to work around it and now Gertrude has just told her son that she is dying. Their relationship has improved immensely since the beginning of the play.

7. Osric is such a sweetheart and Hamlet is being so mean to him. Orson probably feels intimidated and nervous just being around Hamlet, let alone have the Prince make fun of you as well. He also can probably senses tension in the air of the castle and wants to know what is going on but knows it isn’t really his business. I also think Osric would likely be much more worried about pleasing the Prince when he is around him, versus when the prince is around other royalty.

Act Three Scene One
1. In this scene, Claudius and Polonius arrange a meeting between Hamlet and Ophelia. When everyone hides or leaves, Hamlet shows up, and begins contemplating life and death as he knows it. As his soliloquy draws to an end, Ophelia goes to him and tries to return old gifts, to which Hamlet returns to his antic disposition. He becomes mean and violent, and tells Ophelia that all women are whores and belong in a nunnery. As Hamlet leaves, and everyone returns from hiding, it is decided that Hamlet must be watched closely.

3. I wonder if Ophelia was scared. Did Hamlet know he was being watched the whole time? Why didn’t someone step in to save Ophelia from an angry Hamlet? What did Ophelia think while Hamlet was being so rude.

7. I feel so bad for Ophelia! She is being used by Polonius and Claudius to see what is up with Hamlet, who is pretending to be crazy and because of this is incredibly rude to her. She must be feeling like trash because of everything Hamlet’s said about women and probably angry at her dada nada the king for not stepping in the help her. Her situation sucks, and she probably is really upset that she was asked to do this, only to get ripped apart by Hamlet.

Act One Scene 4 & 5
4.In 1.4, line 48 and 49, Hamlet says “I’ll call thee “Hamlet,” “King,” “Father,” “royal Dane.” “ I like this line because it shows not only fear, and Hamlet desperately wanting to talk to his father, but that he also is worried that the ghost might think we won’t recognize him. Hamlet really just wants to talk to his father and is willing to address him by any name in order to gain that moment.

5. Horatio seems to be the voice of reason a lot of the time for hHamlet. He’s always reigning him in and reminding him why whatever decision he’s about to make might not be a very good one of what not. I think Horatio is a true friend to Hamlet and that Hamlet should value that immensely.

6. The relationship between Hamlet and Horatio seems very strong. Horatio offers Hamlet advice and says “Be ruled. You shall not go.” He says this with Hamlet’s best interests in mind and although he is overruled and Hamlet goes anyways, Horatio tries to accept that Hamlet is going regardless, and shows that although he does not like Hamlet’s decision, he will try to accept it.

Act Two Scene Two (169- 312)
2. I believe the significance of this scene is to solidify Hamlet’s antic disposition in the minds of the other character’s, specifically Polonius. He is only speaking gibberish to him, confusing him and making him uncomfortable, and then going from gibberish, to very sad and upset when around his friend’s.

3. Polonius, how did you feel when Hamlet was acting strange around you? Did it make you uncomfortable? What did you think? Did you want him to stop? What do you think caused his madness at this point?

8. Commented on Kendra’s post.

Act 2.2 (169-312)
That quote is really intense. I totally agree that it shows so how angry he is with himself and there's a lot of imagery that goes along with that. He is using a very serious topic to describe his feelings about himself and his situation and I think that helps us as an audience understand what he is going through.

Act Two Scene One (1-169)
The first Paragraph is 1. by the way.

Act Two Scene One (1-169)
In this scene, Reynaldo and Polonius are talking about Laertes going away to university. Polonius wants Reynaldo to watch him, but without making it obvious and he wants Reynaldo to discover anything he can about Laertes reputation. He also encourages Reynaldo to spread rumours, nothing serious but enough that if something bad were going on Laertes, it would be easy to find out. After Reynaldo leaves, Ophelia comes in, absolutely freaked out by an encounter with Hamlet, where he came in looking dishevelled and crazy, grabbed her and stared at her, before leaving. Polonius decides the king should known about the encounter, and so they leave to tell him about it.

5. When Polonius is telling Reynaldo to go to spy on Laertes, it made me think he was sleazy, but as he started talking about spreading rumours about his own son as well, thats when I knew I didn’t like him. He comes across as quite stupid, but as we see more of him, he becomes more and more manipulative and weird.

8. Commented on Ali’s Post.

Act 2, Scene 1 and 2 (lines 1-169)
Ali I hadn't even noticed that part about another scandal! It makes me dislike Polonius even more. I wonder what else Polonius has done to his son? How many times? Polonius is not very nice at all.

Act 2, Scene 1 and 2 (lines 1-169)
Ali I hadn't even noticed that part about another scandal! It makes me dislike Polonius even more. I wonder what else Polonius has done to his son? How many times? Polonius is not very nice at all.

Act 2, Scene 1 and 2 (lines 1-169)
Ali I hadn't even noticed that part about another scandal! It makes me dislike Polonius even more. I wonder what else Polonius has done to his son? How many times? Polonius is not very nice at all.