5. The guards see a ghost
Ghost
Guard
Look where it comes again!
In the same figure like the
king that’s dead!!
6. The new king has married the old
king’s wife
Hamlet
Gertrude Claudius
Though yet of our dear
brother’s death the memory
be green, I have taken to
wife.
Hamlet, my cousin and now
my son, how it is that the
clouds still hang on you?
Not so I am too much in the sun.
7. Hamlet is troubled
Hamlet
Oh God, how weary, stale, flat and unprofitable
seem to me all the uses of this world. That it
should come to this, my father, not too months
dead, and yet within a month, she married with
my uncle – let me not think on it! Frailty thy
name is woman….
8. Laertes is going to university
OpheliaLaertes
Polonius
Farewell sister,
farewell father
My blessing with thee, be
rich not gaudy, neither a
borrower nor a lender be.
And above all to thine own
self be true!
9. Ophelia thinks Hamlet loves her
Ophelia
Polonius
He hath my lord of
late, made many
tenders of his
affection to me
In few, Ophelia, do not
believe his vows. I would,
not, from this time forth,
have you talk with the lord
Hamlet.
10. Hamlet meets the ghost
Hamlet
Ghost
Angels and
ministers of
grace
defend us!
11. The ghost tells him a story
Hamlet
Ghost
Whist I was sleeping within my
orchard, thy uncle Claudius…
That incestuous
and adulterate
beast…
C
Villain!!!
12. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are
asked to watch Hamlet
Guilder-
n-tern
Rozenc-
rantz
Claudius
We do both obey
Gather so much as
from occasion you
may glean, whether
aught to us unknown
affects him thus
We do both obey
13. Hamlet is rude to everyone
Hamlet
Hamlet
Polonius
Ophelia
You are a fishmonger
My Lord!
I loved you not! Get
thee to a nunnery! My Lord?!
14. Hamlet devises a test of guilt
Actor
Actor
Actor
Hamlet
Travelling Players You could for a need study a speech of
some dozen lines which I would set down
for you and insert it, could you not?Ay My Lord
Ay, My lord
Ay, My lord
15. Give over the play
Actor
It works
Claudius
Actor
Hamlet
Poloni
Ophelia
The King rises
Give me some light
away…
What frighted with false fire?
16. You have my father
much offended!
Gertrude is Angry
Hamlet
Gertrude
Polonius
You have your father
much offended!!
Is that
Claudius
behind the
Arras??
17. Hamlet tries to kill Claudius
How now a rat!!
Dead!
Hamlet
Gertrude
Polonius
What hast thou done!
18. Claudius tries to have Hamlet killed
Hamlet
Claudius
For that which thou
hast done we must
send thee hence.
Prepare thyself for
England!
Do it
England –
the present
death of
Hamlet
20. The King’s plan fails
Laertes
Claudius
Claudius,from
Hamlet
What should
this letter
mean?
21. But he has soon made a second
plan
Laertes Claudius
Claudius,from
Hamlet
I will do it!
What would you undertake to show
yourself in deed your father’s son?
22. Ophelia drowns
Gertrude
Your sister’s drowned Laertes. She fell in the weeping
brook and long it could not be till her garments heavy
with their drink, pulled the poor wretch from her
melodious lay to muddy death.
Laertes Claudius
23. At the fencing match between Laertes and
Hamlet… Gertrude accidently drinks the poisoned drink, Hamlet and
Laertes both get wounded with the sword and finally…
Hamlet
Laertes
Gertrude
Claudius
The drink! I am
poisoned
I am justly killed with
mine own treachery
Here thou murderous
damned Dane!!
25. Theme Development
There are two main themes
present in Act 3 Scene 1 of
Hamlet. The two main themes
are, Appearance vs. Reality
and Action & Inaction.
Appearance vs. Reality is
apparent in line 47 in which
Polonius tells Ophelia that
people use appearance to
“sugar o’er the devil” Following
this line in like 52 Claudius
privately admits that he is
feeling guilt, which proves that
Polonius cant tell the difference
between Appearance and
Reality.
26. Action & Inaction is present
in this scene when the
famous soliloquy “to be or
not to be” is said. He is
unable to act on what he
feels is right. Secondly
when Claudius realizes that
Hamlet doesn’t love
Ophelia nor does he angry,
and thus suspects Hamlet
knows about the murder
and sends him to England.
Claudius wastes no time
think of possibilities but
immediately acts upon his
instincts.
