Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Significant thing I noticed in the reading

I know it's kind of lame, but I want to talk about the first conversation of act 3. The king, rosencrantz and guildenstern have a conversation about their spying on hamlet and whether or not he seems distracted and whether he knows about the murder (the latter wasn't said, but its very possible). What's interesting about it, besides the sound devices and brilliant wording, is the dramatic irony of the situation. "Nor do we find him forward to be sounded. But with a crafty madness keeps aloof. When we would bring him on to some confession Of his true state." This is just like hamlet trying to tell for sure if the murmur occurred and get out a confession from uncle-dad. Later on they talk about schemes for getting hamlet to spill the beans of what's distracting him, which I think is hilarious because we are reminded literally the next paragraph about how hamlet plans to get a confession out of the incest king. Even though it was the first passage, it was very important.

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