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Sunday, November 9, 2014

Hamlet Notes ~ Act III Scene III

  • "I like him not" > King Claudius doesn't like Hamlet, and does not like where this current situation is heading > Claudius plans with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to send Hamlet off with them to England, in order to protect his name and the state
  • Polonius enters and tells the King that Hamlet is about to speak with his mother, he also tell the King that he will spy on them while he rests
  • King Claudius' soliloquy: alone with his conscience, hopes that none but God know of his deeds, attempts to pray but fails, cannot repent and be forgiven because he is still reaping the rewards and riches of his sin, asks the angels to aid him so that "All may be well."
  • Hamlet overhearing Claudius' prayer refuses to take his life when he is clean of sin, Hamlet wants his soul to go to heaven blackened, without having a chance to repent, as his father was forced to leave this mortal world
  • King's prayer was useless >> "[Rising] My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
    Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
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