By Richard Czaikowski

A Presentation of William Shakespeare’s

Hamlet

Setting the Scene

Hamlet just learned that his uncle MURDERED his father from his father’s GHOST

Content

by KILLINGClaudius

Hamlet promises to remember his father and avenge him

Content

And compareshis life to livingin

Hamlet curses his mother

Meaning

Man’s quest for REVENGE leads to the downfall of man.

Idioms & Metaphors

“Thy commandment all aloneshall live” 1.5.102

“From the table of my memory I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records” 1.5.98-99

Language

Hamlet has an ANGRY and PASSIONATE tone as is consumed by emotion after learning his father was MURDERED

“Remember thee” 1.5.95 “Remember thee” 1.5.97

“Remember me”1.5.110

“Villain, Villain” 1.5.105“Hold, hold” 1.5.93

“Adieu, adieu” 1.5.110

Rhetorical Questions

“What else?” 1.5.92 “Remember thee?” 1.5.95

“And shall I couple hell?”1.5.93

Syntax

– Medium and long sentences

Staccato and telegraphic exclamatory sentences

Language

But he is emotionallyweak from the death ofhis father

Hamlet is confused and distraught. He has an ANGRY tone,