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The Tragic Hero Must have 3 qualities Must be a man of nobility

The Tragic Hero Must have 3 qualities Must be a man of nobility Must be important enough to fall from grace Must be a great man combined with strengths and weaknesses. He will make an error called his “Tragic Flaw ”

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The Tragic Hero Must have 3 qualities Must be a man of nobility

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  1. The Tragic Hero • Must have 3 qualities • Must be a man of nobility • Must be important enough to fall from grace • Must be a great man combined with strengths and weaknesses

  2. He will make an error called his “Tragic Flaw” He will blame it on destiny, but he really has free will to make his choice and decision

  3. Hamlet’s first important line Act 1 Scene 2 “A little more than kin, and less than kind” Line 67 This line is said about King Claudius. Hamlet means Claudius is now more than an uncle; he is now his stepfather, but he is not a kind man for marrying his mother so quickly. Aside- line spoken by an actor, but only heard by the audience

  4. Soliloquy a speech made by an actor revealing his inner thoughts Hamlet’s first soliloquy Act 1 scene 2 lines 132-163 O that this too too sullied flesh would melt,Thaw and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fix'dHis canon 'gainst self-slaughter.  O God!  God!How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitableSeem to me all the uses of this world!Fie on't, ah fie, 'tis an unweeded gardenThat grows to seed; things rank and gross in naturePossess it merely.  That it should come to this!But two months dead - nay, not so much, not two -So excellent a king, that was to thisHyperion to a satyr, so loving to my motherThat he might not beteem the winds of heavenVisit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth,Must I remember?  Why, she would hang on himAs if increase of appetite had grownBy what it fed on; and yet within a month -Let me not think on't - Frailty, thy name is woman -A little month, or ere those shoes were oldWith which she follow'd my poor father's body,Like Niobe, all tears - why, she -O God, a beast that wants discourse of reasonWould have mourn'd longer - married with my uncle,My father's brother - but no more like my fatherThan I to Hercules.  Within a month,Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tearsHad left the flushing in her galled eyes,She married - O most wicked speed!  To postWith such dexterity to incestuous sheets!It is not, nor it cannot come to good.But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

  5. Scene ends with Horatio, Marcellus enter and tell Hamlet about the ghost sighting. Hamlet wants to meet the ghost that night.

  6. Scene 3 Laertes, Ophelia converse about Hamlet. …Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you,It fits your wisdom so far to believe itAs he in his particular act and placeMay give his saying deed; which is no furtherThan the main voice of Denmark goes withal.Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain,If with too credent ear you list his songs,Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure openTo his unmaster'd importunity.Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister,And keep you in the rear of your affection,Out of the shot and danger of desire.The chariest maid is prodigal enough,If she unmask her beauty to the moon:

  7. Polonius enters says good luck to Laertes and offers him bits of advice before going to France. There; my blessing with thee!And these few precepts in thy memorySee thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,Nor any unproportioned thought his act.Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;But do not dull thy palm with entertainmentOf each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. BewareOf entrance to a quarrel, but being in,Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;For the apparel oft proclaims the man,And they in France of the best rank and stationAre of a most select and generous chief in that.Neither a borrower nor a lender be;For loan oft loses both itself and friend,And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.This above all: to thine ownself be true,

  8. Then he converses with Ophelia about Hamlet. He is not happy with Hamlet and Ophelia “talking”. Tells her she is not allowed to be with him. She obeys. What is between you? give me up the truth.OPHELIA He hath, my lord, of late made many tendersOf his affection to me.LORD POLONIUS Affection! pooh! you speak like a green girl,Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.Do you believe his tenders, as you call them?OPHELIA I do not know, my lord, what I should think. …Ophelia,Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers,Not of that dye which their investments show,But mere implorators of unholy suits,Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds,The better to beguile. This is for all:I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth,Have you so slander any moment leisure,As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.Look to't, I charge you: come your ways.OPHELIA I shall obey, my lord.

  9. Scene 4 Hamlet sees the ghost The ghost states who he is: Ghost I am thy father's spirit,Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night,And for the day confined to fast in fires,Till the foul crimes done in my days of natureAre burnt and purged away.

  10. The ghost reveals a secret: lines 50-95 GHOST: Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.HAMLET: Murder!... GHOST: The serpent that did sting thy father's lifeNow wears his crown. ….Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,--O wicked wit and gifts, that have the powerSo to seduce!--won to his shameful lustThe will of my most seeming-virtuous queen:

  11. HOW DID HE DO IT? …Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard,My custom always of the afternoon,Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole,With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial,And in the porches of my ears did pourThe leperous distilment; whose effectHolds such an enmity with blood of manThat swift as quicksilver it courses throughThe natural gates and alleys of the body,And with a sudden vigour doth possetAnd curd, like eager droppings into milk,The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine;And a most instant tetterbark'd about,Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust,All my smooth body.

  12. He killed him by pouring poison in his ear while he was taking his daily nap outside He killed him so he could have the queen. .The ghost tells Hamlet his mother had nothing to do with the murder. Hamlet was especially upset because his father did not have the benefits of confession. He was unprepared for death. He died with sin upon his heart.

  13. Hamlet makes Horatio and Marcellus swear on a sword they will not reveal the ghost of King Hamlet to anyone. End of Act 1 HAMLET Nay, but swear't.HORATIO In faith,My lord, not I.MARCELLUS Nor I, my lord, in faith.HAMLET Upon my sword.MARCELLUS We have sworn, my lord, already.HAMLET Indeed, upon my sword, indeed.Ghost [Beneath] Swear.HAMLET Ah, ha, boy! say'st thou so? art thou there,truepenny?Come on--you hear this fellow in the cellarage--Consent to swear.

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