1.2.87-117+--Claudius

Naomi Bieber KING CLAUDIUS 1. 'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, 2. To give these mourning duties to your father: 3. But, __you__ must know, your father lost a father; 4. That father lost, lost his, and the survivor boun 5. In filial obligation for some term 6. To do obsequious sorrow: (Shift in tone and speech)  but to persever 7. In obstinate condolement is a course //8. ////Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief; // //9. ////It shows a will most incorrect to heaven, // //10. ////<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">A heart unfortified, a mind impatient, // //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">11. ////<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">An understanding simple and __unschool'd__: // <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 58.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">12. For what we know must be and is as common <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 58.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">13. As any the most vulgar thing to sense, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 58.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">14. Why should we in our peevish opposition //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">15. //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Take it to heart? __Fie!__ //'tis a fault to heaven,// //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">16. ////<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, // //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">17. ////<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">To reason most absurd: whose common theme // //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">18. ////<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried, // //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">19. ////<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">From the first corse till he that died to-day, // <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">20. //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">'This must be so.' //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> We pray you, throw to earth <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 58.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">21. This unprevailing woe, and think of us <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 58.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">22. As of a father: for let the world take note, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 58.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">23. __You__ are the most immediate to our throne; <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 58.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">24. And with no less nobility of love <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 58.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">25. Than that which dearest father bears his son, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 58.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">26. Do I impart toward __you__. For your intent <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 58.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">27. In going back to school in Wittenberg, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 58.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">28. It is most retrograde to our desire: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 58.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">29. And we beseech __you__, bend __you__ to remain <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">30. __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye, __ <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">31. __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">.

· Hamlet was written in 1601 by William Shakespeare.

· Hamlet is viewed as the most  famous play in the English language, the tragedy is a milestone in Shakespeare's dramatic   development.

· Hamlet is visited by the ghost of his father and is asked to avenge his death. He was murdered by his brother Claudius and he wants Hamlet to seek revenge. · In this passage, Claudius is trying to stop hamlet from mourning the loss of his father. He tells Hamlet that all fathers must die and it is not manly, nor what God wants, to continue his mourning. He tells Hamlet that he is overdoing it and needs to move on because he now thinks of Hamlet as a son and Hamlet should do the same.

· By trying to convince Hamlet to forget about his father’s death, he is pushing him to accept Claudius as the new king. If Claudius can get hamlet to accept him as his new father figure then it lessens the possibility for him getting caught.

Its ironic that claudius deams hamlet to be un pious when he has commited the ultimate sin himself by killing his brother. what makes it even more ironic is the msin that claudius committed. in the bible the first murder took place when cain killed his brother abel, this is the worst sin to commit and since claudius does this and tries to be a hypocrite and say that he is pious while hamlet is unpious is extremely ironic.

· “ <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye, · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son.” Shakespeare uses alliteration when Claudius is telling Hamlet to stay in the country and be a noble member of the court, a nephew and now a son.

· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Listing: Claudius lists reasons why Hamlet should not be in mourning.

o <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">“condolement is a course <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief; <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">It shows a will most incorrect to heaven, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">A heart unfortified, a mind impatient, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">An understanding simple and unschool'd:”

o <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">'tis a fault to heaven, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">To reason most absurd: whose common theme <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">From the first corse till he that died to-day, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">'This must be so.'

· Vocab: unschool'd à ignorant · Fie à used to express mild disgust, disapprobation, annoyance