due January 28th

Sorry for the delay in posting this weeks assignment.

I have been going through the Essays and outlines received in class last week, and have come to realize that many of you are still in need of guidance in formatting your papers.

I have decided it would be best to return your papers to you on Thursday and spend the class discussing format as well as the qualities necessary to a successful analytical/ thesis heavy paper.


We will consider all essays "rough drafts" for now.
Those of you who have yet to turn in your papers...
The rough draft  must be turned in by this Thursday or you will receive a "0" for the assignment.

Homework for this week is as follows:

Please finish annotating hamlet scene 3
Some of you did not complete this assignment
Also complete scene 4.

Take a look at the following verse from scene 3
And  explain the dual meaning within the text.

Marry, I'll teach you: think yourself a baby;
That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay,
Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly;
Or--not to crack the wind of the poor phrase,
Running it thus--you'll tender me a fool.

Read the following verse from scene4
Tell me what Hamlets mindset is in this encounter with the Ghost.
How does it affect him?
What bothers him?
How can you tell?

Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd,
Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Thou comest in such a questionable shape
That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet,
King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me!
Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell
Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death,
Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre,
Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd,
Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws,
To cast thee up again. What may this mean,
That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel
Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon,
Making night hideous; and we fools of nature
So horridly to shake our disposition
With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Say, why is this? wherefore? what should we do?

Ghost beckons HAMLET