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Mi nombre es Hannah Nicoletti. Tengo 15 años. Soy bastante deportista. Es por es que cuando tengo tiempo libre practico deportes. Soy bien extraña. Por lo tanto bailo y canto. Me encanta cantar, leer y nadar. Así que leo, nado y canto.

Se llama Malwina puedo su apudo es Molly. Le encanta practicar deportes y ir al cine. Después de las clases va de novio. Le encanta come así que a veces cocina. Le gusta dormir es por eso que siempre duerme.

Mi nombre es Pilar Carroll.Tango catorce anos. Soy bastante activa. Soy super sociable y habladora. Soy bailo y paso in rato con amigos. No me gusta nada correr. 
Su nombre es Kenneth Carroll. Tiene 11 anos. Tu bastante activo.Tu alto y deportista El practica deportes y juga videojuenos. Le no me gusta nada ayada en case. 

Mi nombre es Shaion Denny. Tengo 15 años. Así que practico deportista. No, no es gordo es por eso que mi como. No,no mes gusta estudiar pero trabajo.
Su nombre es Frank. Tengo 15 años. Les gusta es relaja por lo tanto, les gusta ver la tele y jugar videojuegos. No fascine es ir a la escuela.

Mi nombre es Amirah Bolling. Tengo 14 años. Soy bastantae diferente. Es por eso que tengo muchos amigas. Hablo mucho.

Se llama Jada.Tengo 14 años. Todos los dias corme y duerme. Es por eso que ella es muy tranquila.  

​Mi nombre es Greta. Tengo 15 años. Soy súper sociable. Me gusta paso rato con amigos después de las clases. Así que a veces hago la tarea. Nunca corro y practico deportes es por eso que no soy deportista. Todos los días salgo con mi novio y paso rato con amigos y después de las clases comemos. En casa yo duermo. 

Su nombre es Joie. Tienen 14 años. Todos los días duerma y come. Cuando tengo tiempo libre ve de compras. A veces ayuda la casa. Después de las clases pasa rato con amigos. Nunca corre. Ella es muy comica y loca.

Me llamo Nadir Meeks, vengo de San Diego y viví allí por seis años. Cuando mudé aquí viví en Overbrook con mi abuela. Nunca salía afuera y mi barrio fue muy tranquilo y no se cualquier niños. Mi barrio es conocido por histórico negro la figura de Overbrook High. Mi barrio es no musical pero gustan tener bloques fiestas en el verano. Sin embargo las bloques fiestas es no siempre diversión porque la mayoría de personas es pequeños niños y tengo no una persona hablar a. En mi barrio allí es mucho lugares que es abandona y vacante paredes, no me gusta que sobre mi barrio. Pienso es basura de espacia bien que podría ser usó para arte. Poneríra mi mural en el lado de vacante tienda cercano Overbrook High. Quiero mi mural allí porque el propósito de mi mural es inspirar demás tocar música porque necesitamos lo.

 Arte para mi es un manera expresar tú mismo visualmente a demás. Allí son otro tipos diferente tal como grafiti, mural y tagging.   No peisno mi pieza es arte porque es no arte de mio. Es una mezcla de imágenes que yo tomé de otro lugares. Si yo hice todo de la pieza mi mismo entonces pensaría que es arte. Como lo veo yo arte publica es para contar la historia de eventos significó, figuras importa, música, cultura y otros cosos este tiene significados. Arte pública es a menudo equivocado para vandalismo. Sí si arte es en propiedad de otra persona entonces es un delito pero es arte ubicada en abandono o pública área esta bien. También arte pública usa para diciendo demás las problemas en la comunidad o problemas con gobierno.

 Mi mural es sobre la música y quien es todo alrededor nos. Quiero explicar que personas es siempre pensando de música y que música es muy importante en viva porque ayunde trae culturas juntos. Este por que uso dos personas pensando semejante imágenes sobre música.  En mi barrio allí no hay mucho música y este por que pienso es así aburrido. Quiero el papel de mi mural apodar a las demás en mi barrio tocar mucha música. No se por que elegí la color azul es suave y tranquilo color. Si fuera pensando tendría elegí rojo o verde porque esos colores son atractivo a nuestro ojos. Hacería mi mural más notable a demás causando lo ganar más atención y obtiene mi mensaje afuera allí.

 Mi mural no cumple el papel de arte pública, por no menos no todavía porque es no en pública y es no grande suficient llenar una pared en mi barrio. Sin embargo pienso mi pieza es no mi arte es un recopilación de otras piezas de revistas. Si dibujara mi mural mismo entonces podría llamar lo mi trabajo. Es muy controvertida en eunuco o no que nuestra murales es arte. Demás creen que si haceres la pieza que lo es arte. Sí es arte pero no es sus arte, por lo tanto no estoy de acuerdo con demás que dece sus mural es sus arte.

 Hamlet by William Shakespeare has become one of his most popular play written by him. Him in his name William Shakespeare. In most of his plays it seems it has all dealt with war, death, and love. But what makes his plays more fascinating, more interesting is his writings. It seems difficult for us in todays word to understand because we use and speak english in a different way. Since William Shakespeare writes his plays, in his plays it show a lot of emotions and feelings. And When he does that it shows a good way to also understand what the play is about and what he is trying to say. 

  One of the scene from the book to connect is when one of the character name Laertes talks to his sister Ophelia about her boyfriend Hamlet. He wanted to let her know about the type of person Hamlet was and he wanted her to be careful with him. A quote from it is “For Hamlet and the trifling of his favor, Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, A violet in the youth of primary nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute. No more.” This scene is from Act 1 Scene 3 Line 9-11.  To translate exactly what Laertes was telling his sister was “For Hamlet and his attentions to you, just consider it a big flirtation, the temporary phase of a hot-blooded youth. It won’t last. It’s sweet, but his affection will fade after a minute. Not a second more.” So the whole point of this line was just a heads up for his sister Ophelia. He didn’t want his sister to be hurt or make wrong descions and soon would be hurt at the end.  

   Shakespeare written most of his plays in an old fashion english. So it is more difficult for people in the modern days to read and understand what the play mean, and or what the character is trying to say. For example in the play Hamlet the entire play is written in old english and when we read it we would have to analyze what the character are saying, an example to prove is from one of the scene in Act 1 Scene 3 Line 15-19 when Laertes tells his sister Ophelia “Think it no more. For nature, crescent, does not grow alone In thews and bulk, but, as this temple waxes, The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now, And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch The virtue of his will, but you must fear.” What this quote is saying  is Laertes is telling his sister Ophelia to think bigger. The translation is “Try to think of it like that, anyway. When a youth grows into a man, he doesn’t just get bigger in his body—his responsibilities grow too. He may love you now, and may have only the best intentions, but you have to be on your guard.” So basically what Laertes is telling his sister is to beware of Hamlet. For her to watch what she does and for her to have her guard up with him. 

  Another part to the line that connects to the scene is when Laertes tells his sister Hamlet back round. Like how he came from a royal family, what he already had plan for him self in the future. For example in Act 1 Scene 3 Line 20-28 “His greatness weighed, his will is not his own, For he himself is subject to his birth. He may not, as unvalued persons do, Carve for himself, for on his choice depends The safety and health of this whole state. And therefore must his choice be circumscribed Unto the voice and yielding of that body Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you,” What this quote discribe is Laertes telling Ophelia where Hamlet came from like his life back round. For example Hamlet came from a rich family, and his attention for her may not be as important then what he has to do with his family. And to make the people that support him happy. So to turn the quote into a modern version Laertes tells Ophelia this  “Remember that he belongs to the royal family, and his intentions don’t matter that much—he’s a slave to his family obligations. He can’t simply make personal choices for himself the way common people can, since the whole country depends on what he does. His choice has to agree with what the nation wants.” So this explain what Laertes was telling his sister. 

   In Shakespeare his writing are really great. This is because i believe when he writes his plays he makes it very interesting. I believe he wants people to see his plays as something exciting, something for someone to think about. Like for example how his old fashion english makes us think about what he is trying to say because now its modern english. in his play writes it shows a lot of details and emotion so that people who don’t understand ca understand by watching. Shakespeare is one of the great play write, that has pass on from years into todays worlds where we analyze his plays and also act it out our selves. 

" I have of late—but wherefore I know not—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises, and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air—look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire—why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me. No, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so."

-Hamlet quote

Hamlet is very emotional in the words he speaks. It's as if every word that leaves his mouth is stern and meaningful. Every word counts. Hamlet speaks of no nonsense, he means business. He is feeling out of sorts. His feelings towards everything and everyone is not the same as others feel. Hamlet is analyzing all the things he feels blue about. " What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"  By saying this, he is stating that there is so much beauty and amazement in a person. Although he could care less, he sees nothing more than ordinary. Hamlet is depressed. This scene reminded me of how teenagers in modern day see things when they are depressed. Specifically my thought were drawn to the book, "The Lovers Dictionary" by David Levithan. The way Hamlet relays his feelings through such simple examples, yet still so meaningful. David Levithan writes the same way, while conveying stress, sadness, and harsh emotion.  It becomes obvious that Hamlet is depressed because he is showing all different symptoms and reflecting them on different people. In the quote Hamlet talks about his feelings in deep concern. He explains why he feels the way he does using comparisons to how others see things. Most seem to be very upsetting and depressing comments. This is Hamlet's ways of responding to the life changes he is experiencing currently. He is completely overwhelmed with the situation, and confused on how to go forward. Although his feelings could and may possibly not be true, this is his way of responding to the current events. Hamlet's way of behaving is not co-operating with the rest of the environment. Hamlet can only communicate with himself when he is alone. When he is in front of others, he acts like someone he’s not. The crazy, loud, and outrageous man is so different from the confused, depressed, and lost man who is still trying to recover his fathers death, let alone try to comprehend that his uncle might have committed the deed. 

“The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me. No, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so." , says Hamlet in his last few words of the speach. This is just one of another point proving Hamlet’s change in emotion. It also shows others reactions to him. 

Shakespeare is widely regarded as one of the best writers in history. He is praised for his poetry as well as his numerous plays. His writing is so influential that  it is still Analyzed and Preformed today by scholars and actors. As most who have read his writing or seen his plays, he has earned this degree of respect. His writing captures the reader, dragging them further into the text with each line. Shakespeare accomplished this riddling the lines of his text with carefully chosen language. Although, the thing that draws the reader in more than anything else is his involvement of the reader’s imagination in his text. He does a beautiful job of weaving opportunities for the reader to go off on their own mental tangent.  By doing this, he can avoid wasting time with lengthy and dull description, focusing more on the plot.

One prime example of where he does this is in one of his most famous works Hamlet. In this excerpt, The spirit of Hamlet’s Father comes up from the underworld to speak with him. In the conversation, Shakespeare has the ghost mentions being in hell. 

“And for the day confined to fast in fires, 

Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature 

Are burnt and purged away.” - Hamlet, William Shakespeare, Act 1, scene 5 lines 16-19

Nothing in Shakespeare’s writing is just there for the sake of being there. In this example he makes sure to mention that, But does not go in depth in to why he’s there. This makes the reader come up with their own reasons. Those with minds that are eager to analyze will question if the current king (the antagonist of the play) was really any worse than his brother. The other side of this argument is that he was not condemned for his deeds as king but rather for other, smaller actions in his personal life.   Pieces of text like these are the reason shakespeare’s works are so widely celebrated. Each play is infinitely more complicated than it looks at first glance. Shakespeare uses this method in more than just his sub-plots. He also does this to aid the descriptions in his plays. As seen here “ 

“I could a tale unfold whose lightest word 

Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, 

Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,” 

-Hamlet, William Shakespeare Act 1, Scene 5 lines 20-23

He does not make the kings ghost actually reveal what he had experienced. He instead describes how Hamlet would react to it. If he had instead included a lengthy description of the ghost’s torment, then the audience would only remember it for the beautiful language. By doing this, he makes it easier to get the ghost’s key points of the ghosts speech across, without sacrificing any of the shock and awe value of the passage. What makes shakespeare a good writer is not that he works well with what he writes, but he also makes use of what isn’t written. He is as much an artist of implication as much as he is a wordsmith. These passages where the reader has just as much influence on the play as shakespeare does are the reason his writing is so highly regarded today. 

​Favorite Spot: Center City

About Me: Student, activist

Years in Philly: 18 years

Current Home: North East Philly

Dear Philly,

From your Killadelphia days to the long summers of soccer in the park. You're not half bad. All the way up in the North East and the term, down to South Broad. I love you for the Flyers, and the Phillies too. Hell even the Eagles, no matter how bad they can be at times. Here's to the dogs days riding down Broad causing chaos, or the nights with fellow Flyers fans, and all the times we've talking shit about the Penguins, Pittsburgh the Rangers and the Mets. An amazing ode to Philly. I'll love you always!

Thanks for all the good times.

   Hamlet and Ophelia are in argument that gets critical after Ophelia puts an end to her relationship with Hamlet. Ophelia rejected Hamlet in multiple ways, one way was giving back things that he had given her such as letters he had written her expressing his feelings in depth. Hamlet, is not accepting it at all, he is hurt and very upset by what Ophelia is saying. They begin to go at. 

   As a matter of fact, you can see how upset Hamlet is in the beginning of his little speech when Hamlet says, "Go thee (to) a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?" Nunnery means a convent, a convent is a community where priests, religious brothers, religious sisters, or nuns gather and live together. All of the same sex. But also it could be used in a different manner, used to refer to brawdy house, brawdy house is a place or community where men can visit prostitutes.   He is basically referring that Ophelia is a prostitute, the love of his life of being a sinful and wrong woman. She should not birth any children, because if she does then there will be more people like her which are sinners in the world.

   Looking a little further down, Hamlet is speaking about himself, he says he himself is an "indifferent honest." It sounds like he flipping his words around when he is finished his thought, "but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me." Hamlet is far from innocent or a person you could look up to a saint in the play he switches up his feelings. 

    One example is Act 1 Scene 5, when his two friends Horatio and Marcellus run back and inform him that they have seen and spoken to the ghost of his father. One night Hamlet stands watch with Horatio and Marcellus, and sees the ghost, which is his father. The ghost takes Hamlet away, to talk to him. He says that he was murdered by Claudius which is his brother, the new king. His father tries to convince Hamlet into murdering the new king of Denmark, step dad Claudius. 

"Murder?

Murder most foul and most unnatural murder.

But this most foul, strange, and unnatural." ( Lines 32-34)

"O, my prophetic soul! My uncle!

Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast." ( Lines 48-49)

The ghost Hamlet's fathers ghost is speaking about his brother, like an animal.

"So, uncle, there are you. Now to my word.

It is "adieu, adieu, remember me.

I have sworn't." (Lines 117-119)

The ending words are Hamlet saying goodbye goodbye, remember me. 

   Hamlet goes on throughout the disagreement with Ophelia in a different way. When he says to Ophelia "I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my back than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them space, or time to act them in." It sounds like Hamlet is speaking to Ophelia like he is in higher power. Like he is above her. He is saying that everyone messes up, and its normal. But somethings just cant be forgiven.

    As he continues in the talk with Ophelia he has a sudden change in character, "What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? While Hamlet is saying this line, it sounds rather frustrated, like something is bothering him. Does it have to do with his father? The ghost? "We are arrant knaves (all;) believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. Where's your father?," are Hamlet's last few words said to Ophelia during the argument. Telling her to go and look back at her sins and see what she has done. 

   Hamlet is just one of Shakespeare's great works of art. Shakespeare uses his writings and plays to real life. The way it is written is what makes it so well known and read around the world. All throughout Hamlet, Shakespeare uses a language that sets off the tone of the play.

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Hola, me llamo Marina. Yo vivo en el Oeste de Filadelfia. Sin embargo, cuando yo era una bebe yo vivía con mi mama y papa en una casa pequeña. Después mi abuela se murió. Luego, nos mudamos a la casa de mi abuela. En la casa que vivo ahora, es mejor porque es más grande y cómoda. Pero la casa que era de mi abuela no era tan lejos de donde yo vivía. Nos mudamos cerca de la casa donde vivíamos antes. En mi barrio hay muchos americanos africanos. Sin embargo, hay otras razas representadas. Yo diría que mi comunidad tiene muchas personas de clase media. Muchas de las familias trabajan los trabajos normales de 9-5. También, la mayoría de los niños y las niñas van a la escuela pública en el barrio. La calle es muy pequeña, por lo tanto cada uno conoce a cada uno. Me gusta mi calle porque mis vecinos son simpáticos. En mi barrio, muchas familias tienen perros. En mi calle, hay un gran campo de béisbol. Por lo tanto, en el verano, un montón de gente ir al campo a divertirse y a hablar. Mi mural ubicado en la última casa cerca del campo de béisbol. La dirección es 5145 Ogden st, Filadelfia, 19139. Esta ubicación es mejor porque toda la comunidad puede ver el mural. También los coches conduciendo por la calle pueden ver el mural.
El arte puede representar emociones de una persona. Los diferentes colores usados pueden crear una historia. El arte público tiene muchas formas como grafiti, vandalismo y murales. Sin embargo, todos es arte.  Estoy de acuerdo de que todo puede ser el arte porque los gente diferentes tienen opiniones diferentes sobre el arte. Por lo tanto el arte de ellos van a crear arte diferente. Feo arte para mi, sería bonita arte para ti. Mi mural es una forma de arte porque representa mi cultura y emociones. Las piezas en mi mural es detallado y importante para el mensaje. Para mi, el propósito del arte público es permitir que a la gente de la comunidad para crear hermosas obras de arte y contar la historia que es importante para la cultura.
Mi mural tiene la palabra "Poderoso" porque se simboliza cómo las mujeres fuertes están en nuestra sociedad.También , el mural tengo tres mujeres de diferentes culturas. Representan las madres solteras que hay en el mundo. Las rayas de la cebra en el fondo representan la fuerza. He decidido un cebra porque unas cebras son animales grandes pero son muy huraños. Muchas mujeres tengo problemos. Sin embargo, ellos son callados porque ellos quieren guardar sus sentimientos personal.  Los cebras toman sus familia muy serios. Familia es realmente importante a ellos. Una cebra hembra es igual a mi mamá porque ella cuido de mi y es independiente. El tema en el mural es reconocer las dificultades de ser un solo madre.
Cuando la gente ve el mural, quiero entender que las dificultades de la madres solteras y respetan ellos.Yo creo que mi mural representa mi cultura y comunidad. El arte público es para artistas para expresar sus sentimientos y ser creativo. Entonces para este proyecto, quise que mi mural representa mamás solas independientes en el mundo. En general, creo que mi pintura mural es realmente bien. Amo las rayas de la cebra detalladas porque es diferente.

In the immortal work of the play writer Shakespeare, there is a play called Hamlet. Shakespeare decided that there should be several speeches that are very important to the story. There are also many things that help to contribute the importance of the story. Some depict a series of emotions that run through the characters. They help to explain more of what the individual character is feeling. The way that shakespeare decided to write the speeches is an excellent way to see the emotions coming off of the pages. 

One of the speeches that I decided to analyze is a speech given by one of the main characters Hamlet. He is going through a really rough time in his life with the passing of his father and the remarriage of his mother he gives off the most emotions through out the entire play. He has a lot of emotional and mental changes that we see through the writing of the speeches.With all that Hamlet is going through his mother and his uncle/stepfather are very worried about him and his abnormal behavior they decide to include some of Hamlet’s childhood friends to get the gist of what is going on. Hamlet gives a very emotional speech to his childhood friends.

In act two scene two of the play , the character Hamlet says “I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation prevent your discovery, an your secrecy to the King and Queen molt no feather I have of late, but wherefore I know not,lost all my mirth , foregone all customs of exercises, and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air look you, this brave o’er-hanging firmament , this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire- why it appeareth nothing to me but foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.”(2.2)

The speech given here Hamlet is basically saying he has some suspicions of why they are visiting. Considering he hasn’t seen them in quite some time it is a little unusual for them to be there with him. He brings up the idea that they are there for the King and Queen (His mother and Uncle/Stepfather) to seek out information on why he has been acting so strange. He also says that he is feeling a little bit of betrayal that they have not been around for a long time and that they appeared all of a sudden  with the command from the king and queen. They have all of a sudden appeared and they have came with not good intentions. Hamlet showed a lot of emotions towards his childhood friends because he has been going through some things. He says he has not been the same. He doesn’t enjoy the same activities. He is not the same person. He doesn’t seem the think the same things are fun anymore and things just aren’t going as good as they could go for him. 

​Quote:

A damned defeat was made. Am I a coward?

Who calls me “villain”? Breaks my pate across?

Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face?

Tweaks me by the nose? Gives me the lie i' th' throat

Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,

That I, the son of a dear father murdered,

Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,

Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words

And fall a-cursing like a very drab,

A scullion! Fie upon ’t, foh!

About, my brain.—Hum, I have heard

That guilty creatures sitting at a play

Have, by the very cunning of the scene,

Been struck so to the soul that presently

They have proclaimed their malefactions.

Analysis: 

In Act 2 Scene 2, Hamlet delivers an intriguing monologue that leaves you with more questions than answers. While asking questions about himself, he uncovers meaning behind his father’s death. "Am I a coward? Who calls me “villain”? Breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face?" Hamlet says as he enters a room alone. Throughout the play, he questions his instincts, and goes deep down to the core about what he's truly experiencing, and what is just inside his head. In this specific scene, we see the angry and confused man who wants to find peace within himself, and find the truth about his fathers death. "Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words, Why, what an ass am I!" This quote being my favorite, because Hamlet's realizing how crazy he really seems, and he's questioning his own thoughts. He is so upset with himself because his father was just killed, his mother married his uncle, he is in love with Ophelia, and yet all he can do is say words. That is by far my favorite line because I can relate to it. Sometimes when you are thinking so much all that comes out is words. It's good when we can express our feelings, but we want to do instead of say. I can relate to Hamlet completely. It makes you think not only about Hamlet and what he will entail, but also about yourself, and the questions you have been trying to decipher. Hamlet has been going through a difficult time, but he code switches depending on whom he interacts with. I like this scene from the play, because he's not putting on an act for anyone. In front of Ophelia, Polonius, and especially his uncle, he's not himself. He acts crazy and dramatic, but it's still not what he's truly feeling. When he went into the room and said, "I am now alone." you can tell he is relieved, that he can express his true feelings without anyone knowing. 

"That I, the son of a dear father murdered, prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell." he is saying here that his father had just been murdered, and he is ready to get his revenge. Then he goes on to say he needs to get himself together, because all he is doing right now is standing around talking about it. After talking, thinking, and planning, he said "That guilty creatures sitting at a play have, by the very cunning of the scene, been struck so to the soul that presently they have proclaimed their malefactions." This concludes the scene, and puts a halt to Hamlet's crazy thoughts for now. He remembers that people who face their deeds, admit what they have done, due to guilt. Hamlet may be crazy, or he may just want justice for his father. Putting on a play of a king being murdered and watching his uncle’s reaction is genus. I believe that Hamlet really isn't crazy, but just lost in his own thoughts. His emotions are out of control, but when he has time to be true to himself, and think for himself, is when you can tell he's just a man who wants answers and justice for his father.

Hamlet:
"Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all. Believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery." (Act 3, Scene 1)

Ophelia and Hamlet are in an intense argument after Ophelia rejects the continuous of her relationship with Hamlet. Ophelia returning Hamlet his love letters was her way of rejecting his love. Of course Hamlet doesn’t take this well at all. He is outraged by her actions in fact. Hamlet and Ophelia begin to lock horns. 

In the first couple sentences, Hamlet ultimately dismantles Ophelia’s ego when he says, “Get thee (to) a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?” A nunnery means convent (used mockingly to refer to brothel). Brothel, is a house where men can visit prostitutes. So, he refers to Ophelia, who is his lover, as a prostitutes; a sinful woman. As a sinful woman, she shouldn’t born any child because then there will only be more sinners in the world. 

When you are directed towards the third sentence, Hamlet says that he is an “indifferent honest”. To be indifferent honest, you are reasonably virtuous, meaning good. But, he sounds a bit contradicting as he finishes the sentence. After all, Hamlet hasn’t been the complete angel in the story so far. For example, In Act 1, Scene 5, Hamlet is confronted by his father’s ghost. The ghost tells Hamlet that he was murdered by the new king of Denmark, Claudius. He then tries to connivence Hamlet to seek revenge for him by killing Claudius. If he won’t kill Claudius for him, at least kill Claudius for Denmark:

“Oh, horrible, oh, horrible, most horrible!

If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not.

Let not the royal bed of Denmark be

A couch for luxury and damnèd incest.

But howsoever thou pursuest this act,

Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive

Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven

And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge

To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once.

The glowworm shows the matin to be near,

And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

Adieu, adieu, adieu. Remember me.“ (Lines 78-91) 

Hamlet’s mind is set upon this and he responses to the naughty sin by saying,

“It is “Adieu, adieu. Remember me.”

I have sworn ’t.” (Lines 111-112) 

Hamlet goes on in a more reassuring way when he says to Ophelia, “I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.” It also seems as if Hamlet is trying to speck himself into higher spirits. He says that everyone has their fair share of flaws, but as long as a person can shape them into something good, then they’ll be fine. 

But then there is a sudden shift of tone in the next line when Hamlet says, “What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?” It falls into a tone of confusion and anger. Was his father’s spirit on his heart? Does he think that he will end up like his spirit? Stuck between earth and heaven? Hamlet ends their argument by directing Ophelia again to go to a nunnery to repent and reflect upon her sins. But, shouldn’t Hamlet be the one doing so instead of Ophelia? 

In conclusion, Shakespeare uses his words to bring life into his text. Without his usage of certain words, his texts wouldn’t be valued. Throughout Hamlet, Shakespeare has a strong usage and play with his words. They can really set the tone for a text because they are the backbone. 

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Hamlet Analysis Act 1 Scene 5

Ananda Knight

I am thy father's spirit,

Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night,

And for the day confined to fast in fires,

Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature

Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid

To tell the secrets of my prison-house,

I could a tale unfold whose lightest word

Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,

Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,

Hamlet is written in old english and has its ways of presenting words and lines in which people today may have a hard time understanding. Even though the text may be a little hard to read the way in which Shakespeare is written makes it both interesting, and a learning experience. 

The Hamlet scene that I found really interesting was Act 1 Scene 5. In this scene/ act Hamlet is introduced to the ghost of his father. His father’s ghost comes to him one night. When he first opens up to Hamlet he tells him how he has sinned and his should has yet to enter the gates of heaven because of his many untold sins. Even though the ghost of Hamlets father comes to him and presents himself and tells him that he cant go to heaven until he is punished for his sins he still refuses to tell his son what the sins are exactly for his is forbid to tell them. 

When reading this at first I expected Hamlet and his fathers first words to be different. I thought that Hamlet and his father may have exchanged words like I miss you, how are you ect. 

I also expected Hamlet to seem a little scared or hesitant as to how his father is appearing to him and why he can see a ghost. One question I had was did Hamlet notice that the ghost was his father even before he came out and said I am thy fathers spirit. Another question I had was what were all of the sins that the ghost had been talking about.

When I think of a king I think of a good person someone who people come to for help, guidance, and leadership. As I read this scene I wonder what kind of sins could a king have against him keeping him from his entrance into heaven. This scene is powerful because not only does it show a relationship between Hamlet and his father but It leaves readers wondering and mind boggled. Readers will be left wondering because the ghost constantly reminds the readers about how his are to horrible to be told and that he is forbid to tell them. But why? What are they? what did he do? Why can he talk to his own son about it? These are all questions that went through my mind while reading the scene. This scene includes an excerpt that makes me to continue to read the book and hope that soon my questions are answered.

This scene has a good way of telling us about the ghost’s past. was Hamlets father really a bad person or a criminal. Is there a reason why the author held back the sins in which he committed and why did he describe them as being so traitorous. I feel like this scene covered a lot with a few lines.