Humanities Homework Help

1,A. identify the speaker

B. explain what prompted this speech (what events occurred before)

C. how does it relate to a theme of the play (specific theme)

I’ll have these players

Play something like the murder of my father

Before mine uncle. I’ll observe his looks.

I’ll tent him to the quick. If he do blench,

I know my course. The spirit that I have seen

May be the devil, and the devil hath power

T’ assume a pleasing shape. Yea, and perhaps

Out of my weakness and my melancholy,

As he is very potent with such spirits,

Abuses me to damn me. I’ll have grounds

More relative than this. The play’s the thing

Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.

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b.

2,A, identify the speaker

promoted this speech(what events occured before) os the play(specific theme)

O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven:

it hath the primal eldest curse upon’t,

A brother’s murder. pray can i not,

Though inclination be as sharp intent:

And , like a man to double business bound,

I stand in pause where i shall first being,

And both neglect.

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B,

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3,ESSAY questio: 3 paragraph(300 words minimum)

Throughout Hamlet’s conversation with horatio, he says things like” There’s a divinity that shapes our ends” and that was heaven ordinant.” Hamlet is convinced now more than ever that divine providence governs man’s life, and that things happen as they are meant to happen.

Explore well two examples of events in Act V where this is shown. is this learning too late? or like providence, “happened as it was meant to happen”?