1. By: Hannah Brower and Yuzuka Ieta
Hamlet Act 4 Scene 5
By: Hannah Brower and Yuzuka Ieta

2. Summary Ophelia has gone mad with grief of her dead father
Ophelia approaches Gertrude but speaks only in poems and songs
Claudius enters and comments on Ophelia’s madness but also states that Laertes has secretly sailed back from France
Laertes enters, followed by a mob of commoners shouting that Laertes is to be king
Claudius tries to calm Laertes who is furious over his father’s death
Ophelia enters and sends Laertes into another fit of rage upon seeing his insane sister
Claudius says that he is not to blame for the death of Polonius, but that he can help Laertes seek revenge upon the proper person

3. Sentence Structure

4. Ophelia Speaks in songs/poems Shows she is mad
“How should I your true love know
From another one?
By his cockle hat and staff
And his sandal shoon.”
Lines 23-26

5. Laertes Speaks in quick, short sentences
Shows his anger and short temper
“How came he dead? I’ll not be juggled with.”
Line 130

6. Claudius Speaks in iambic pentameter
Shows he is calm and has not changed his manner like the other characters have
“When sorrows come, the come not single spies…”
Line 77

7. Gertrude Sentences are long, but broken up with commas
Shows deep thinking but an underlying tone of worry
“To my sick soul, as sin’s true nature is,
Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss.
So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”
Lines 17-20

8. Literary Devices

9. Pun Sexual Pun “Let in the maid that out a maid Never departed more.”
Lines 54-55

10. Hyperbole “O heat dry up my brains, tears seven times salt
Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye!”
Lines

11. Simile “O heavens, is’t possible a young maid’s wits
Should be as mortal as an old man’s life?”
Lines

12. Imagery
Visual:
“ There’s rosemary… and there is pansies… There’s fennel for you and columbines. There's rue for you… There’s a daisy. I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died.”
Lines

13. Clips http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfcsP-eKJF8

14. Hamlet (1990) Setting- quiet, outside Lighting- dull, monochrome
Costumes- dirty, colorless
Gives an impression of an extremely sad, gloomy, and almost fearful tone

15. Hamlet (TV 2009) Setting- small, closed space Lighting- dark
Costumes- blacks and grays
Gives it a tone of anger and crazed madness

16. Hamlet (1996)
Setting- indoors, wide open (she projects herself and it echoes)
Lighting- Bright whites (hints at an insane asylum)
Costumes- Straight jacket
Gives the tone of insanity and mocking happiness

17. Activity!
Everyone must take turns reading this passage and act it out in a way you think Ophelia would say it: “I hope all will be well. We must be patient, but I cannot choose but to weep to think they would lay him I’th’ cold ground. My brother shall know of it, and so I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my couch. Good night ladies, good night sweet ladies, good night, good night.” pg 175 (lines 68-72)