1. Hamlet Examlet
Review

2. Shakespearean Tragedy
Act I – Exposition – establishes tone, setting characters, main conflict, background Act II – Rising Action – series of complications that sets protagonist in motion to solve Act III – Crisis/Turning Point Act IV – Falling Action – emphasizes play’s destructive forces Act V – Climax/Resolution – unraveling of plot, which in a tragedy includes catastrophe of hero and others.

3. Understanding Hamlet His melancholy His indecision His fatalism
His cynicism
His general disillusionment with humanity
His revenge of his father’s death
Fatal Flaw

4. Tragic Hero Characteristics
Member of power class by birth
Heightened powers and destiny
Strong individualist
Intelligent and sensitive
Learns thru suffering
Demonstrates personal courage in acceptance of death or annihilation
Isolated
List specific evidence from text

5. Quotable Quotes O my offense is rank, it smells to heaven
Something is rotten in the State of Denmark
Though this be madness, it there is method in’t will you walk out if the air, my lord
And now I’ll do’t. And so a goes to heaven:/And so I am revenged. That would be scann’d/A villian kills my father.
O most wicked speed, to post/With such dexterity to incestuous sheets

6. Quotable Quotes Frailty, thy name is woman
To be or not to be; that is the question
The time is out of joint o cursed spite/that ever was born to set right
Whose end both are the first and now, was and is to hold as’t were, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature scorn her own image
I knew him…a fellow of infinete jest, of most excellant fancy

7. Quotable Quotes
I’ll have grounds/more relative than this: the play’s the thing Wherein I’LL catch the conscious of the king
There with fantastic garlands did she make/…When down her weedy trophies and herself/Fell into the weeping brook
Let not the royal bed of Denmark be / A couch for luxury and damned incest
O from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth
There’s such divinity doth hedge a king/That treason can but peep to what it would.

8. Important Character Quotes
A little more than kin and less than kind
I have that within me which passes show/these but the trappings and the suits of woe
I shall in all my best obey you, madam
That the Everlasting had not fixed/ His canon against self-slaughter
Frailty, thy name woman
O wicked speed to post/with such dexterity to incestuous sheets
There’s a divinity that shapes our ends/Rough-hew them how we will”