TDR 3560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Polonius
6 Mar 2018
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Till our scale turn the beam - justice and death. Examples help explain and visualize complex concepts. Images with thematic resonance that hit on the central ideas of the play. Speak daggers - hamlet is not actually planning to pull a dagger on gertrude, which will make hamlet accidentally murdering polonius more surprising. Glass inmost part - is a moment of choices. Technically, hamlet said he would only speak daggers to gertrude, so he was not planning any violence. Not everyone sees the ghost-- gertrude does not see it at all. Eyes are the windows to the soul . Tdr 3560 play analysis lecture notes 9 and 10: on imagery. Claudius uses heightened verse with his wife, and some might say he protests too much . When laertes enters, he uses and creates a faster pace. How now what noise is that? -- extra syllables indicate pauses.
