Hamlet is bugging me too

Erica MarquezOctober 30, 2013 at 8:18 AM

Hamlet is too witty to be mad. His schemes are thought out to well. He outsmarts everyone and still manages to keep himself together in the presence of others for the most part. He is like an onion he has layers of personality. Would a crazy person be able to do that? He is not mad, but I believe that when you fake a personality you in some sort of way become it. When you spend so much time with a personality/character you start acting like them in real life. Hamlet is spending so much time with all of his layers of personality so it can easily be argued that Hamlet will soon turn mad.

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Erica MarquezOctober 29, 2013 at 7:43 PM

a) Ted Talks are amazing! From this video I have learned that we as internet magnets are being isolated from our own world. Based on certain factors the web is choosing what we see on our computer screens. We are not in control of what we see on the web.

b) This new information makes me wonder; what kind of news do I get when I search up a certain word and/or topic? Is it essential? Now I am aware that the internet is not making me aware of my surroundings. It is not giving me the full spectrum I thought I was getting when searching things on the internet.

c) The questions I am asking myself is how do I know that the stuff I am searching on the internet is as rich and full of information than it could be when someone else searched the same thing? Why would the internet deprive the people that are keeping it running from information? Why choose their information? Do people not have the right to judge what they can and cannot see?

d) To improve the effectiveness of my searches is to use more than one web page and/or different technology. For example using, Bing versus Google versus Duck Duck go or my computer versus my kindle. 

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It all depends on how the news is presented. Many times the news on the media and internet can be biased. Yes, the internet has made us a more aware universe, but it has isolated us from each other in some ways. Technology in general has taken over the worlds of many people. The talking on the phone and speaking face to face no longer seem an important part of society. The internet has allowed us to give up more quickly. When one cannot find the answer to something the person automatically thinks…Google it or cha cha it. This is a great article it’s worth taking a look at. http://www.shrm.org/hrdisciplines/technology/articles/pages/youngminds.aspx

The Performative Utterance in Hamlet

Austin’s Idea: Language describes and does.

Language:

• Locutionary force: ability to deliver a message
• Illocutionary force: whatever is done when being said …?
• perlocutionary force: what is achieved by whatever is said

Thoughts/Notes:

• To my understandings Austin is saying that Hamlet is so trapped in between his thoughts and   actions, because he talks out his anger, he uses language, but has not really mastered language to the next step which is action the does part of the definition above.
• What Austin is trying to say is that in order for something to be true it must be said. Feeling is a process? First feeling must go through a mental process than a verbal process or visa versa. It is called going from language to the physical world.
• Pretending- is hamlet pretending to be mad or is has he actually gone mad?
• Hamlet has created an appearance of madness to everyone around him.
• Polonius is Hamlet’s toy b/c he is a firm believer that Hamlet’s gone completely mad.
• Hamlet is using his “madness” to hide what he is feeling from others and to hide is identity b/c he is just royalty, nothing but a title.
• Polonius= vision of pre modern man …?
• Hamlet the man of language becomes a man of action at the end. He does what he needs to do and what has been running through his head.

THOUGHTS ON HAMLET (IN PROGRESS)

Explain how your thinking about the play has evolved from the time we began reading to the end of Act III. Has anything changed your mind about the plot or characters since the ghost showed up at midnight? Where do you see things going from here?

      When we first started the play I thought Hamlet was mad and though he would worsen throughout the play. As we kept reading I realized that he is actually very witty. He knew exactly how to play his cards. Hamlet surprises me more and more in each Act. He says non sense, then goes back to sanity and then flips out when alone. It is quite entertaining to see the transitions he takes with his own character and see the other character's reactions.
      As for Rosencrantz and Guildenstren I thought they were going to stay loyal to Hamlet even after Claudius had asked them to figure him out. Their friendly concerns and comforting comments deceived me until further collaboration with my peers. As for Polonius I never thought he would be killed so easily and without actual planning from Hamlet. 
       After Act 3 I believe that Hamlet is willing to do anything to get his revenge. All of his actions  from his rejection to Ophelia, to his witty and truthful play, to blowing up on his mom and killing Polonius impacted each and every one of the readers. Hamlet is a strong character and nobody is going to be able to stop him from his goal. 
      As for now i think that the play is going to go downhill from here. More characters are going to be killed off and Hamlet is going to keep playing his witty game. 

HAMLET Act 3: questions

I am wondering whether Hamlet was overreacting in calling the moving thing under the mat a rat or if he actually knew it was Polonius. Did he actually know he was killing Polonius? Did he initially think it was Claudius under the mat? Why did he and his mother carry on with their conversation so quickly after Polonius' death?

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