REVISED!!!! Hamlet 2.2 Due 2/15 (A) 2/16 (B) (I'l be checking for completion at the beginning of class) REVISED!!!

Words, Words, Words

Deconstruct Hamlet's Word Play

Words 1 (2.1.185 - 230) - Analyze Hamlet's interactions with Polonius . What's he really saying?  List the puns/double entendres and what they might mean.

Pun/ double entendre	meaning - example
You are a Fishmonger (187)	Polonius fishes for answers by setting bait (2.1) and because he's a spy for Claudius and Gertrude.

  What truths does he tell Polonius?

Words 2 (2.1.235 - 315) - Analyze Hamlet's interactions with Rosencranz and Guildenstern.  Again consider the puns, the double entendres, metaphors, allusion, and tone. What is he really saying?

Pun/ double entendre/metaphor	meaning - example
Fortune and "the middle of her favours" (244)	Lady Fortune, cap = top, sole=bottom, Hamlet says waist as in middle and "favours" as in blessing/light and her "physical" delight.

 

Why is Hamlet using this Language with R and G?What truths does he tell them in lines 234 - 317?

Read Act 3 scene 1