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Monday, 12 November 2012
Response Journal : Hamlet
Response Journal for Act 1, scene 1 to Act 1 scene 5.
1. How does the play make you feel at this point? Recored your emotional response(s) in a few sentences and then explore them for a few minutes, trying to figure out why you feel as you do.
In scene 1 to 5 of the Act 1, the play starts off with the introduction of many events. Although it is just an introduction, I felt that the play is becoming more and more intense in each scene. Also, I felt that the play made me feel serious and curious about what is going to happen next. In my opinion, I felt that this play is going to be intense, due to the fact that King Claudius killed King Hamlet and took the former King's wife to be his own, which only Hamlet (the son) knows about it. Moreover, I felt curious, wanting to know what's going to happen next, because in scene 5, the ghost Hamlet went to tell Hamlet to kill Claudius. I wanted to know how will Hamlet plan and struggle to kill Claudius.
2. In what situations have you felt similar to the characters? What persons, places, or ideas from your own experiences came to your mind while you were reading this portion of the play? Try to list at least three associations, but don't worry about trying to figure out why they came to mind. Just accept that they occur.
a. Like relationships, whether it is a friend, boyfriend/girlfriend, family, and etc, sometimes when we meet someone new, we tend to forget an old friend. Back then, I had a bestfriend whom I was very close with. We did things together. However, we became farther and farther from each other because she had new friends... From bestfriends, it became a friend. From a friend, it became a classmate. And a classmate, I have become nobody to her. She just forget this old friend and enjoying her time with new friends. Similar to Hamlet, when Hamlet expresses the depths of his melancholy and his disgust to his mother, when his mother forgets about her dead husband and enjoys her time with Claudius.
b. Similar to Hamlet, sometimes I'm being mad. Especially the period when I'm having my period, my mood would always goes up and down. Sometimes I talk to my ownself too. In my opinion, at times, Hamlet can be as cold as ice, and at times, he can be as angry as a bull. Moreover, Hamlet is also like a type of person who is lonely, by looking at his dialogues. Similar to myself, sometimes, although filled with social life and people, I am just desolate. I needed something to be fulfilled, like Hamlet.
c. When Horatio and Marcellus warned Hamlet not to follow the ghost, Hamlet did not listen. Similar to myself and my experience, I don't really listen. Instead of using reasons and logic (which I am really poor at that), I only use my own feelings and my "sixth sense" to follow what I desire. Moreover, similar to Hamlet, I'm quite hard-headed and stubborn. I just do whatever I want and whatever I cared of. Like in algebra tests that are about problem solvings, instead of using formulas and algebraic equation, I'm using my own estimation, using my senses. Same like Hamlet, when he follow the ghost, he just gave all into it, and follow what he disired to do, knowing that there'll be consequences after the act.
3. What portions of Shakeseare's language attracts your attention? These might be individual words, phrases, lines, scenes, or images. Make not of whatever features draw your attention. Speculate for a few minutes about what you think they might mean.
In this phrase, "A little more than a kin, and less than kind (Act I, Scene II)," attracted my attention when Hamlet told Claudius after Claudius called him, "son. In this phrase, it is a kind of like a controversial statement. When you are more than a kin, but you are less than kind, which made no sense at all. I think Shakespeare wrote it to make Hamlet image to be ironic and sarcastic. In my opinion, "a little more than a kin," means that Hamlet and Claudius is tightly bonded to each other, being both Claudius's nephew and also his son by marriage. Moreover, "and less than kind," in other words, Hamlet told Claudius that he does not consider the kinship to be a warm, loving relationship. He is sarcastically trying to tell that he dissapproves his mother's marriage and his uncle's.
4. Make note of any portion of the play, its language, or events that cause your problems. Note any questions that you might ask.
In my opinion, I really have a discomfort reading Hamlet, due to its language structure. Shakespeare's using an Old English style of conversation and difficult vocabularies, which made me confused in many parts. As a result, I must read through the summary and then read through the play once again. Moreover, some slangs (that is rarely used now), has appeared in many different conversations, which made my reading jerky, not flowing along. And somehow, I lost my emotions while reading and I felt that my feelings did not really build up through the emotional points of the story.
In scene 1 to 5 of the Act 1, the play starts off with the introduction of many events. Although it is just an introduction, I felt that the play is becoming more and more intense in each scene. Also, I felt that the play made me feel serious and curious about what is going to happen next. In my opinion, I felt that this play is going to be intense, due to the fact that King Claudius killed King Hamlet and took the former King's wife to be his own, which only Hamlet (the son) knows about it. Moreover, I felt curious, wanting to know what's going to happen next, because in scene 5, the ghost Hamlet went to tell Hamlet to kill Claudius. I wanted to know how will Hamlet plan and struggle to kill Claudius.
2. In what situations have you felt similar to the characters? What persons, places, or ideas from your own experiences came to your mind while you were reading this portion of the play? Try to list at least three associations, but don't worry about trying to figure out why they came to mind. Just accept that they occur.
a. Like relationships, whether it is a friend, boyfriend/girlfriend, family, and etc, sometimes when we meet someone new, we tend to forget an old friend. Back then, I had a bestfriend whom I was very close with. We did things together. However, we became farther and farther from each other because she had new friends... From bestfriends, it became a friend. From a friend, it became a classmate. And a classmate, I have become nobody to her. She just forget this old friend and enjoying her time with new friends. Similar to Hamlet, when Hamlet expresses the depths of his melancholy and his disgust to his mother, when his mother forgets about her dead husband and enjoys her time with Claudius.
b. Similar to Hamlet, sometimes I'm being mad. Especially the period when I'm having my period, my mood would always goes up and down. Sometimes I talk to my ownself too. In my opinion, at times, Hamlet can be as cold as ice, and at times, he can be as angry as a bull. Moreover, Hamlet is also like a type of person who is lonely, by looking at his dialogues. Similar to myself, sometimes, although filled with social life and people, I am just desolate. I needed something to be fulfilled, like Hamlet.
c. When Horatio and Marcellus warned Hamlet not to follow the ghost, Hamlet did not listen. Similar to myself and my experience, I don't really listen. Instead of using reasons and logic (which I am really poor at that), I only use my own feelings and my "sixth sense" to follow what I desire. Moreover, similar to Hamlet, I'm quite hard-headed and stubborn. I just do whatever I want and whatever I cared of. Like in algebra tests that are about problem solvings, instead of using formulas and algebraic equation, I'm using my own estimation, using my senses. Same like Hamlet, when he follow the ghost, he just gave all into it, and follow what he disired to do, knowing that there'll be consequences after the act.
3. What portions of Shakeseare's language attracts your attention? These might be individual words, phrases, lines, scenes, or images. Make not of whatever features draw your attention. Speculate for a few minutes about what you think they might mean.
In this phrase, "A little more than a kin, and less than kind (Act I, Scene II)," attracted my attention when Hamlet told Claudius after Claudius called him, "son. In this phrase, it is a kind of like a controversial statement. When you are more than a kin, but you are less than kind, which made no sense at all. I think Shakespeare wrote it to make Hamlet image to be ironic and sarcastic. In my opinion, "a little more than a kin," means that Hamlet and Claudius is tightly bonded to each other, being both Claudius's nephew and also his son by marriage. Moreover, "and less than kind," in other words, Hamlet told Claudius that he does not consider the kinship to be a warm, loving relationship. He is sarcastically trying to tell that he dissapproves his mother's marriage and his uncle's.
4. Make note of any portion of the play, its language, or events that cause your problems. Note any questions that you might ask.
In my opinion, I really have a discomfort reading Hamlet, due to its language structure. Shakespeare's using an Old English style of conversation and difficult vocabularies, which made me confused in many parts. As a result, I must read through the summary and then read through the play once again. Moreover, some slangs (that is rarely used now), has appeared in many different conversations, which made my reading jerky, not flowing along. And somehow, I lost my emotions while reading and I felt that my feelings did not really build up through the emotional points of the story.
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