In Act 4 scene 6 Horatio gets a letter from Hamlet saying that he has been captured by pirates but they have let Rosencrantz and Guildernstern free. He also explains how shocked he is that the pirates aren’t going to kill him.
Month: November 2015
Act 4 Scene 5- Scene Summary
In Act 4 scene 5 it starts off with Gertrude and Horatio discussing Ophelia and that she is so sad that her father died and that she can’t take it anymore. Later on in the scene while Hamlet was on a boat to England, Laerts storms into the kings castle and starts shouting and asking who killed his father. Claudius promises Laerts that he doesn’t know who killed his father.
Titus andronicus
Play wrights were restricted by the queens men censorship. They stopped playwrights from writing about any subject that even mentioned rebellion or Catholicism. Especially punished was regicide, Many playwrights were killed for past works they had written which involved killing the king or queen.
Shakespeare was almost jailed when he named one of his characters after sir john oldcastle in his play Henry the 4th part one. He made sir oldcastle appear to be a drunk and a braggart. In real life he was a rebel against king Henry the 5th. He was executed and the new Protestant rule made him into a martyr. The new lord chamberlain was a descendent of oldcastle and was not a fan of the theatre at the best of times.(http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/events/event91.html 24/9/13 unknown author
How they displayed violence on stage
The Elizabethans had many different ways of mimicking violence on stage. One way was to have the actor on a turntable, when the “attacker” moves towards the victim the audience cannot see the victim. The turntable is then used to replace the actor with a dummy covered in animal blood. They also use parts of animal organs such as intestines and brains to demonstrate the violence. Animal bones could be broken to make the desired sound and animal bladders filled with blood and concealed under a actors clothes could be split with the point of a dagger or sword to make it appear as of the actor has been stabbed.
http://www.bardstage.org/globe-theatre-special-effects.htm accessed 24/9/13 unknown author
Act 4 Scene 3- Scene Summary
In Act 4 scene 3 Claudius tells his attendants that Polonius has been killed and his plan to send Hamlet to England. He also wants Rosencrantz and Guildernstern to go with Hamlet to England. Hamlet refuses to give up the body of Polonius but says he is being eaten by worms. Claudius then tells Rosencrantz and Guildernstern the plan about to go England but to get Hamlet killed there.
To be or not to be.
To be or not to be is the famous soliloquy from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. What Hamlet was trying say in the soliloquy was whether he should kill him self or not. He was thinking about just sleeping and never waking up, so he can sleep and stop all the heartache and just die in a dream. Hamlet kept saying what was the point of living as he was kind of a failure. ‘To be or not to be’ this translates into ‘To live or not to live’ in this particular soliloquy.
Act 4 scene 2- Scene summary
In Act 4 scene 2 Claudius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern wants to know where Hamlet hid the body of Polonius but he refuses but does give them couple clues.
Act 4 scene 1- Scene summary
In Act 4 scene 1 Claudius is expecting to hear from Polonius about what was going on with Hamlet and his mum but instead learns that Polonius has been killed while listening to the conversation.
Act 3 Scene- Scene review
In Act 3 scene 4 Hamlets mum the queen wants to have a chat with Hamlet in private but then Claudius and Polonius hear about it and then Polonius goes to ease drop on them and goes and hides behind a curtain. Hamlet goes talk to his mum Gertrude about her guilt then he hears behind the curtain and puts a sword straight through the curtain and kills Polonius.
Animal Farm-Book Review
Manor farm owned by Mr Jones. The animals of the farm one day have a meeting held by Willingdon to talk an about a dream he had about a world where animals own it. Willingdon then dies shortly after. The animals who were at the meeting were inspired by Willingdon vision started to talk about killing Mr Jones and owning the whole farm on their own. Napoleon and Snowball, two pigs who put them in charge. Then one day the animals decided to kick Mr Jones and his men out of the farm and do so successfully. After this the animals rename the farm to Animal Farm.
The pigs were in charge as they are the smartest out of all of the animals. Napoleon one of the two leaders at Animal Farm started to be greedy and steal the cows milk and steal apples to only give the pigs of the farm and not the other animals.
After a while Mr Jones and his men return to the renamed Animal Farm and try to reclaim what is rightfully theirs. Mr Jones and his men are unsuccessful in their attack and Animal Farm is still in the hands of the animals. After this attack Snowball the other leader of Animal Farm decides Animal Farm needs a windmill but Napoleon disagrees and secretly gets a pack of dogs to kick snowball out of Animal Farm. This leaves Napoleon as the leader of Animal Farm. Napoleon then wants a windmill and says it was his own idea and no one else’s. It took nearly a year to make the windmill, then one day there is a storm and it destroys the windmill, Napoleon then blames Snowball and tells the animals to rebuild it.
Napoleon starts to become a dictator and then the animals start to get less food than usual, the food was going to the pigs. Months later the windmill is completed, then Napoleon started changing the rules in favor of the pigs.
At the end of the book Napoleon changes the name of the farm from Animal Farm back to Manor Farm.
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