Student Research assignment for English (year 10)

1. Hamlet

2.  WHO- Hamlet
 WHAT PLAY- Hamlet
 WHERE- Denmark
 Protagonist
 Sex- male

3.  Hamlet is a story of a boy named hamlet
wanting to revenge his uncle Claudius for
killing his father. Hamlet battles his
concience and moral sruples in order to
proceed with the masacar. Whist he obsesses
over Ophelia. A theme of revenge is vividly
displyed through out the coarse of the play.

4.  1- PERSON V.S SELF-internal conflict in the from
of his concience not wanting to kill the king.
 2- PERSON V.S SOCIETEY- Hamlet in his mind
dosnt want to go against his morals and trouble
the societies views of him.
 3- PERSON V.S PERSON- hamlet battles against
everyone!
 4- PERSON V.S SUPERNAT URAL- Hamlet begins
to get pressured by his ghost dad to revenge him
self.
 5-PERSON V.S FATE- Hamlet believes that he has
to do what his father has said as if its almost fate
for him to kill uncle Claudius.

5.  Hamlet feels a responsibility to avenge his
fathers murder by his uncle Claudius, but
Claudius is now the king and thus well
protected. Moreover, Hamlet struggles with
his doubts about whether he can trust the
ghost and wether killing Claudius is the
appropriate thing to do.

6.  Exposition- The night guards patrol over a
Denmark fortified castle whilst seeing a ghost
believed to look like hamlets father. The
guards tell hamlet about the ghost and
hamlet prepares to meet the ghost.
 Exciting force- Hamlet meets his father over
night and is asked to revenge him and kill
uncle Claudius.

7.  Conflictrising action- Hamlet battles within
his conscience whether to kill uncle Claudius
or not. He begins to get crazy and „get mad.‟
 Turning pointCrisis- Claudius declares that
Laertes and hamlet are to have a fight.
 Catastrophe or Falling action- Hamlet gets
scratched by the poisoned blade of Laertes
and realises he cannot revenge his father if
he dies. Also Laertes gets poisoned by his
own blade and dies.

8.  Resolution- Hamlet forces Claudius to drink
from a poison goblet and stabs him with the
poison blade.
 Denouement- The Norwegian king comes
and finds everyone dead and restores Peace
to Denmark.

9.  Looking at the comic relief scene in Hamlet is
very clear that its the gravediggers scene . Prior
to the scene, Ophelia has died and Hamlet has
(almost) been declared mad by his uncle and
mother and has been sent to England. Upon his
return he spots two gravediggers shovelling a
grave for whom Hamlet doesn‟t know to be
Ophelia. Hamlet speaks to one of the
gravediggers, who does not recognize him as
Hamlet, and discovers that he was sent to
England because he was mad. Furthermore the
gravedigger tells him that Ophelia is dead and
thus advancing the play to Ophelia‟s burial and
Hamlet‟s return to Elsinore.

10.  Hamlet and Ophelia find love after hamlet trying to
conceal his inner feelings.
 Hamlet only feels safe trusting his true friend Horatio.
 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern spy on him. So he doesn't
trust them.
 Hamlet loves his mother but doesn't feel as close to her
because she remarried Claudius after his fathers death.
 Obviously hamlet truly hates Claudius and is prepared
to kill him.

11. motivations
The main reason for Hamlets motivation to kill
uncle Claudius is the fact that his dead fathers
ghost tempts him to revenge himself.
What do other people
think of him?
Hamlet acts very strange towards
others. In fact he acts so strange
that people begin to think that he
is mad.

12.  Externally- hamlet is fine but confronts
people making them think that he is mad. He
gets stabbed by the poison blade of Laertes
also.
 Internally- hamlet battles with his inner
conflict until his excuse to be mad becomes
semi true.

13.  Hamlet at the start is a proud son
before his fathers murder. When his
mother marries now king Claudius he
suddenly feels more distant from his
parents.

14.  Hamlet in the middle is completely
unsure on how his future is going to
plan out. He feels that it is fate to kill
Claudius yet struggles to bring
himself to do it. He begins to go crazy
in own thoughts.

15.  Hamlet at the end has decided what
needs to be done and chooses his
future. Although he was dying when
he killed Claudius we never find out
whether he would've killed him any
way.

16.  “We know what we are but not what we may be”-uncertain
 “To be or not to be, that is the question”- confused
 “The plays the thing, wherein ill catch the conscience of the king”-
plotting
 “There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and hamlet says… its
pay back time!”- brave and strong
 “I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to
quote hamlet as much as I please”-troubled
 “Mother you have my father much offended”- Confident
 “My fathers brother, but no more like my father- than I to Hercules.” –
humorous.

17. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116477/
http://www.wikianswers.com/Q/where
http://www.enotes.com/hamlet/discuss/what-some-conflicts-hamlet-
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http://www.sparknotes.com
http://www.gradesaver.com/hamlet
http://www.arielgorden.blogspot.co.nz
http://www.answers.yahoo.com
http://www.enotes.com
http://www.sparknotes.co.nz
http://www.goodreads.com
Books
.hamlet/illustrated by emma vienceli (2007)
.hamlet/shakespare,william (1998)
.hamlet/illustrated by rodger payne (1988)
.hamlet/sample essays by insight publications (2009)

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