Hamlet:I need to look at the passages from Acts IV and V and assess their impact within the context of the whole play. I have already done so and it's giving me these questions using a passage. I need some help, please. :)Passage 1:" Now, whether it beBestial oblivion, or some craven scrupleOf thinking too precisely on the event,-A thought which, quarter’d, hath but one part wisdomAnd ever three parts coward,-I do not knowWhy yet I live to say ’This thing’s to do;’Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and meansTo do’t.Hamlet: IV, iv, 38-46 "Passage 2:" It must be se offendendo; it cannot be else. For here liesthe point: if I drown myself wittingly, it argues an act: and anact hath three branches; it is to act, to do, and to perform:argal, she drowned herself wittingly.Gravedigger / Clown: V, I, 8-13 "Questions for both passages:1 How does this passage serve to develop character, plot, or conflict? (5 marks)2 How does this passage serve to develop theme? (5 marks)3 Give an explication of the lines, focusing on literary devices and / or ways in which the lines targeted the Elizabethan audience. (5 marks)Thannks!
IV.4.38-46: -- Hamlet has been dilly-dallying for over 3 acts now! His father told him what he had to do, and he knows what to do. He understands that he needs to take revenge on his father's ghost and that he needs to get in gear. Do you see the development of the character and the plot taking place through this soliloquy? What theme is being furthered in this case? What do you think about how? Explicate the lines -- that is, line by line, explain what he's saying and point out literary devices Shakespeare used that the Elizabethan audience would definitely connect with.
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