On day four, we took a closer look at Hamlet’s first soliloquy, examining how the figurative language reveals his feelings about death, God and religion, his father, his mother, and King Claudius.
Then, we took a look at advice that characters gave to each other during Act 1, Scene 3, and discussed what the interactions reveal about each character. With your groups, you examined one of the following interactions:
- Laertes gives advice to Ophelia
- Polonius gives advice to Laertes
- Polonius gives advice to Ophelia
Last, we picked out the most important lines from Act 1, Scene 5, when the ghost speaks to Hamlet and charges him to revenge his murder, most foul and unnatural.
