SHAKESPEARE'S HAMLETREVENGE - TEXT

ACT I, SCENE IV,

TEXT ANALYSIS

I chose to make a power point that incorporates images that reflects a passage from Hamlet. The passage I chose is from Act I,

Scene IV where Hamlet first promises to take revenge for his father’s death.

ACT I, SCENE IV, LINE 42-102

• King Hamlets ghost first appears.

• Hamlet speaks to the ghost asking what it wants.

• The ghost beckons for Hamlet to follow.

• Marcellus and Horatio warn Hamlet not to follow but Hamlet needs to know what the ghost has to say.

• Hamlet follows the ghost into the next room.

• Horatio and Marcellus decide to follow them.

ACT I, SCENE V, LINE 1 - 46

• The ghost tells Hamlet that he is the ghost of his father and that if Hamlet ever loved him he would revenge his foul and unnatural death

• He also explain that the person that killed him now wears his crown which Hamlet knows is Claudius.

ACT 1, SCENE 5, 47 - 96

• The ghost tells Hamlet how Claudius murdered him, by pouring a vial of poison in his ear while he was sleeping in his garden.

• But he also tells Hamlet to leave Gertrude, his wife, out of his plan and to leave her for heaven.

• With the sun rising the ghost starts to disappear and he tells Hamlet to remember him.

ACT I, SCENE V, LINE 97 -209

• Horatio and Marcellus rush into the room asking what has happened.

• Hamlet does not tell them and makes them swear on his sword in different places around the room not to tell anyone what has happened here today.

• Hamlet also tells them he is going to be acting like a madman in the near future but to give no idea that they know what is going on.

BY: EMILY CALLIGAN