Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

By Austin Taylor

June 15th 2018

ELA 9B

Ms. Kondratiuk

I chose this book because it is well known and I thought it would be an interesting read.

 

Type of Text

Hamlet is a fictional play.

Why I chose this book

Summary

  • Setting
    • Royal Castle
    • Elsinore, Denmark
    • Late middle ages 1300~1400
  • Characters
    • Royal Family
      • Hamlet
      • Claudius
      • Gertrude
      • Ghost

Summary

  • Characters
    • Polonius
    • Laertes
    • Ophelia
    • Horatio
  • Type of conflict
    • Man vs Self
      • Hamlet struggles on deciding whether to kill Claudius or not
    • Man vs Man
      • King is dead and Uncle is new king

Summary

  • Plot
    • Hamlet talks to the ghost
    • Hamlet commits to avenging his father's death
    • Resolution
      • Horatio tells Fortinbras what happened to everyone to make sure the public is made aware

Theme

  • Theme
    • Certainty
  • Text to self
    • The longer I consider things worse the situation gets
  • Text to text
    • Uncertainty can help character development
  • Text to world
    • Being uncertain doesn't help people in some situations

Haiku

His father is killed

 

Then he contemplates revenge.

All die in the end.

is

this

loss?

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