Tuesday 12/18

At the end of Act 3, scene 2, Hamlet broods over how he shall regard his mother:

Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood,
And do such bitter business as the day
Would quake to look on. Soft! now to my mother.
O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever
The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom:
Let me be cruel, not unnatural:
I will speak daggers to her, but use none;
My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites;
How in my words soever she be shent,
To give them seals never, my soul, consent!

Analyze Hamlet's feeling towards his mother here.  Consider what he has just learned and the
respective implications regarding Gertrude.

1.  Discuss Journal.

2.  Read Act 2, scene 3.

**Consider elements of Climax

3.  View Act 3:  Focus on "The Mousetrap"