Hamlet-1.1-1-13

1. How is interest created in the opening scene?

All the guards are calling out who’s there, and then a ghost of their king appears and then disappears. This pulls in the audience to find out what is actually going on.

2. What information are we given to help us understand the situation?

The king had recently died, and his son is next in line. The guards think it would be a good idea to tell the son that they saw a ghost of his dad, but the ghost wouldn’t talk to them so they think that the ghost will talk to the son.

3. What happens at the end of the scene to create suspense and keep up the reader’s interest?

The ghost appeared and then disappeared again at the end of the guards’ shift, and the guards decided to go tell the ghost’s son of the encounter.

4. What is the mood of the scene?

The mood is dark, scary, like a beginning of a horror film until they set off to find the son.

5. Why are the sentries apprehensive (there are two reasons)?

It is dark. First, it was just the two guards alone, and then a guard and nobleman showed up. Also, the king just died so when the ghost appeared, and looked like the late King, and wouldn’t (perhaps couldn’t) talk, they were spooked.

6. What reasons are suggested by Horatio for the appearance of the late King’s ghost?

Horatio thought that the king might have found some battle information regarding the future of the kingdom and came back to tell them. It would have been something that he would have only found out after death.

7. Who are the characters present in the scene?

Barnardo, Francisco, Marcellus, Horatio, and Ghost King

8. List one thing Horatio says about the former King?

Horatio said that the king was a really good fighter and won a contest against Fortinbras and killed him. The king took all Fortinbra’s his land and wealth and left his son with nothing.

9. Who is young Fortinbras?

Young Fortinbras is the son of the older Fortinbras who was killed and lost his land to the Danish King, Old Hamlet, who is dead.

10. What does Horatio say happened in Rome after Julius Caesar was murdered?

“The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead

Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets:

As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,”

11. How does Horatio differ from Marcellus and Barnardo in scene 1?

Horatio is a noble as opposed to being a guard.

12. What is Horatio’s purpose in scene 1 (why is he present)?

He knows history, specifically the Danish people and the Romans, and he was there to speak with the ghost.

13. What past history (Denmark’s history) is revealed in scene 1?

There is some connection to Rome because they all say something related to Rome or about it. The King won against old Fortinbras of Norway and took his lands from him. The King had also just recently died, and his son was to take over the throne.

- Hyphens -

1. The little lost girl had that I'm going to cry-again-look on her face.

2. Spies must have the I-like-danger attitude to be successful.

3. We found many interesting things in a forty-year old trunk.

4. He gave an I-dare-you to touch me sneer to the others.

5. Did you read that hair-raising story last night?



1. In the woods we saw many flowers including a jack-in-the-pulpit.

2. One old toy that everyone used to have was a jack-in-the-box.

3. The sergeants-at-arms will escort him from the courtroom.

4. The ship's captain enjoyed using the cat-o'-nine-tails on disobedient sailors.

5. Finding the man seemed to be just a will-o'-the-wisp.


1. Jim was the runner-up in the race.

2. The sailors attached the ship to the tie-up.

3. Let's get something to eat at a drive-in.

4. The jump-off was the beginning of the war.

5. This meal is certainly first-rate.



1. It was hard to find an anti-imperialist among the rulers of ancient Rome.

2. I believe that man had a pre-existence before this life.

3. Can you de-energize that bomb in time?

4. If you take that medicine, it could cause the body to be anti-immune.

5. The concerned group was starting an anti-immoral movement.



1. We studied the Franco-Prussian War in our history class.

2. For tomorrow read chapters 6-9 in your geography book.

3. The decade 1950-1959 was a great time to grow up.

4. The New York-Paris flight will leave on time.

5. Study your letters l-z for the next quiz.

P.323 #s 1-3 & letter

1. The crowded ballroom thundered with deafening applause each time the vibrant speaker made an effective point.
2. My friends and I went to a sci-fi movie and when it ended, we walked the block and a half to our favoite diner and attempted to figure out what we had just watched.
3. I remained on the semi-cushy, brown, leather waiting-room couch while my grandpa went to speak with his doctor about his ailments.

Riley Westfall

English 12

01/09/2012

Dear Friend,

            I hear you have been having a little girl trouble. Fear not, for I come with advice. My first recommendation is for you to discontinue being in her presence or merely thinking about her as your affection for her will just continue to blossom. With this expanding love you feel for her, the more she rejects you. She broke up with you and is not longer entitled to this love you clearly speak of.

            You compare your relationship to ice and fire. You are the hot fire, burning with desire, and she has the frozen heart, cold and unfeeling. This connection is unnatural. Fire is not always able to change ice. The edges may become melted, but the core will remain frosty and bitter. Your love will never thaw her heart.

            Give yourself time to mourn the loss of this love, but there is another lady out there waiting for you, who wants to return the same passion of love that you feel now. I argue that you must no longer see this woman, but leave her to her own miserable existence. Move on with grace and dignity.

                                                                                                                        Sincerely,

                                                                                                                        Riley Westfall

P.322 #s 1-9

1. He is fire and his love is ice.
2. It is washed away by the surf.
3. ""Vain man," said she, "that dost in vain assay, a mortal thing soo to immortalize...""
4. That the ice is both melted and made stronger by the fire (like iorn/steel) and makes fire.
5. No, because it doesn't say that he got over his heartache though he seems to be philosophical about love in a detached way (love is more powerful than nature). As a side note some of the chemical properties of H2O was just being discovered and ice's ability to absorb heat eventually leading to the industrial revolution (I know this because my dad has this really cool book).
6. The first is just about love wilst the second is about love and immortality through writing.
7. He thinks she is hot (or cold in the previous sonnet). He thinks it is the most powerful thing in all the world and transcends death. He thinks his poetry will serve to immortalize them and their love.
8. The two women are both sceptical of their lover's attempt to make some things immortal.
9. If they are about love then it would make sence for them to be "syrupy" but I'm not a poet nor do I really read them, so it is all a matter of opinion.

P317 #s 1-10

1. To give her pleasure, 3 beds of rosses, 1000 posies, flower cap, Kertle, gown, slippers, belt, and singing and dancing companions of his.
2. For her to live with him and be his lover.
3. If the joys offered had no end and they didn't age.
4. The valleys, groves, hills, fields, woods, mountains, shepards with flocks, sitting on rocks, rivers & waterfalls, and song birds.
5. She would go if he always told the truth and if every thing were young.
6. Many things are said by the heart rather than the brain when in love, It is just that a token and nothing else, she doesn't want to grow old with some guy and wants it all to stay young.
7. The Nymph is saying that the gifts will not last and most of the poem is about the fall/winter for his gifts which all die by then.
8. Marlowe is implying that love never ends in ones heart, but Raleigh is saying love has an end which is either death or some point before then.
9. The shepherd is in love and thinks his gifts will impress her (50/50 chance), and it appears that he is writing to someone who might not even know he exists.
10. The first poem is about the shepherd trying to show her he loves her by his gifts, but shes doesn't think it will last but likes every thing else.

Shakespeare-Sonnet

1. 10 syllables per line
2. ABAB
    CDCD
    EFEF
    GG
3. 3 Quatrains and a couplet
4. 14 Lines.

1. Love
2. Death/Aging/Time
3. Immortality through writing

Renaissance Thing Part

(Part 1)

I. The Renaissance

A. The Monarchy and the church

1. The Tudors

a. Henry VII (becomes King arranges the marriage between Arthur and the Spanish princess, Arthur died suddenly and Henry married her instead, a terrible decision)

2. The Protestant Reformation

a. The people were mad at the church at the time and wanted things changed

3. The Church of England

a. Henry VIII (starts a new church because he couldn’t divorce and get remarried)

B. The Elizabethan Era

1. Elizabeth I (one of the best monarchs ever, English renascence begins, very popular with the people, a good thing after King Henry VIII and Queen Mary)

            C. Rise of the Stuarts

                        1. Charles I (dismisses Parliament)

            D. The Defeat of the Monarchy

                        1. General Oliver Cromwell leads the revolution and ends the renaissance

                        2. Charles II (Comes back)

II. Cultural Influences

            A. The Renaissance

                        1. The Renaissance World View

a. The people were more interested in earthy life rather than the afterlife

b. They want people to be a jack-of-all-trade instead of being just

focused on one thing

                        2. Creativity and Exploration

                                    a. They were into exploring, the arts, and nature

b. Reading became easier with the invention of the Gutenburg’s printing press                                    

III. Renaissance Literature

            A. Pastoral Poems and Sonnets

                        1. Improving Nature

a. They said not to imitate nature but to “improve” it and incorporate it into their paintings

            B. Shakespearean Drama

                        1. Shakespeare’s Influence

                                    a. This is when Shakespeare wrote 37 plays

                                    b. The Globe Theater was the most famous theater and London had

                                    more theaters than some countries had overall

                                    c. Shakespeare invented words through his writings and is more

                                    like modern day English

                                    d. Stories are still based on his writings

C. The Rise of Humanism

                        1. English Humanists

                                    a. This is when humans invented utopia

b. Important works such as Virgil’s Aeneid and Homer’s Illiad and Odyssey were translated

D.  Spiritual and Devotional Writing

                        1. King James Bible

                                    a. The first official English Bible was translated based on Hebrew,            

                                    early Latin, and Greek versions and is still in use

                        2. Two Masterpieces

a. Paradise Lost, complicated version of Adam and Eve, was written

b. The Pilgrim’s Progress was more important because more people could understand it as it was simplified

(Part 2)

E. The Metaphysical and Cavalier Poets

                        1. Ben Jonson-Good poet, followers were “Sons of Ben”

2. Cavalier-Royalists and they were kinda like hippies, Metaphysical-were all about the metaphors

                        3. John Donne- Metaphysical poet about love, death, and religion