Hamlet
Which roles can it be argued that Hamlet encapsulates in the play?
Remember to answer in relation to typical archetypal crime characters.
Hamlet can be considered a, Victim, perpetrator, revenger, detective
possibly more? Pls don’t embarrass me :/
Which characters are narrators in Atonement
Briony, Robbie, Cecilia, Emily
How is the wedding quest described after the mariners story?
What do you call someone who has helped/stood by, while a crime takes place?
Accessory/Accomplice
‘It is an ancient mariner’
from fifty shades of grey
Being originally written as a tragedy, the play, Hamlet, has lots of DEATH, many characters die for various reasons, be it revenge, anger or Laertes dropping his sword???
Out of the 11 main integral, returning characters, how many die?
9 characters die
King Hamlet, Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, Polonius, Laertes, Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Only Horatio and Young Fortinbras are alive at the denouement.
What actions does Briony take try to atone for what she did in the summer of 1935?
She tries to write to Robbie and Cecelia
She becomes a nurse, instead of going to university
She lies about the fate of R+C to try to give them the closure they never got when writing her book.
What did the mariners do to tell his crewmates of an incoming ship at the start of part 3
He sucked his own blood…Eeeewwwwww
What roles will always be represented in a crime text?
A victim and a perpetrator
‘And all for nothing? For Hecuba!’
Hamlet
Which character/s in the Shakespearean play Hamlet, characterise one of the many central aspects of crime, Surveillance?
Make sure to include examples that support your claim and possibly even quotes?
Characters such as Claudius and Polonius encapsulate the theme of surveillance in Hamlet. From spying, to hiring friends and servants alike, these characters stop at nothing to be pervy weirdos!
+Anything else valid I guess
Are The Quincy cousins parents still together when they are sent into (the nut job) Emilys care?
They are not yet divorced
In which part, did the albatross fall from the mariners neck into the Sea?
Part 4
How is setting, an important aspect of crime?
It can be used as a tool to affect the mood, dark streets vs warm cottage.
much more elaborate description of the setting allows the senses to be opened up to the audience, it can be more terrifying of a crime if the story is vivid.
Tone
Themes
etc
‘Three fine meandering lines in the glaze, converging like rivers in an atlas’
chp4 part 1 Atonement
If your competent and….breathing, you’ve probably heard of the question, ‘to be or not to be’
But what do these lines even mean in relation to Hamlets soliloquy?
What purpose does this soliloquy serve, why did Shakespeare have Hamlet say this in Act 3?
It literally means, ‘to live, or not to live’…Obviously
The soliloquy encompasses the thoughts flying and raging within Hamlets mind, he is torn between life and death, is It better to endure suffering or to fight against it?
Hamlet is broken from the death of his father and the swift marriage of his mother. The visiting of the ghost leads him to be torn between perception and reality.
Thus, for all the things happening to him, he believes it is better to die than endure the pain inflicted from the cruelties of life. Tormented by these thoughts he questions his existence and his procrastination
In what ways can poor old Robbie be considered a Victim?
He is a victim of Briony’s false police testimony, as he is unrightfully imprisoned and then as a result never continues his romance with Cecilia and dies on the battlefield.
Victim of social class as he has very little ability as a w/c character to argue against the prestigious upper class aristocracy. As Cecilia begins to realise, ‘the snobbery that lay behind their stupidity’
Why might the killing of the albatross be seen as an act of transgression?
Because the albatross can be seen as a holy figure or the embodiment of god.
‘and I had done a hellish thing’
Does Hamlet scream ‘A mouse a mouse!’
No of course not, it’s a rat
‘A noise like a hidden brook, On the leafy month of June’
Rhyme
Which characters states, ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’
Marcellus, surprisingly……Act 1 sc4
What does Robbie’s Letter to Cecilia say?;)
Bonus Points for shouting the answer
i ain’t gunna type that
How could you argue that the mariners punishment was deserved?
Possibly use quotes to support your claim and validate your answer
Yup well done
Name 10 aspects typical to crime texts
An account of a life lost to crime-setting-motive‘s/nature of the crime-violence, murder, theft, betrayal-detection of the criminal-guilt and remorse-justice/injustice or the attempt to return to order-criminal will be punished-victims and suffering-retribution-criminal justice system-police work, detectives-commentary on society/representing a specific time in society- how they affect the reader: suspense, twists, double twists, triple twists, the twist, cliff hangers, excitement, disguise, relief, hatred and interest.
I’ve probably still managed to miss a few >:(
‘Oh bosom black as death! Oh limed soul struggling to be free’
Hamlet