Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1 Summary

Juliet says, (gives the Nurse a ring) O, find him! Give this ring to my true knight. (Shakespeare III . ii.143-144) This means that she know about Her and Romeo. She should be punished because she is going to be taking the ring to him even though he is banished and they should not be talking to each other.

The Aristotelian element of drama known as spectacle, or what is seen onstage, is important to the development of any play or musical. Spectacle plays an influential and essential role in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. The specific things and actions the audience sees in this play provides them with necessary information to understand the characters, storyline, and many other aspects of the play. There are numerous examples of specific things Ibsen intended for the patrons to observe throughout the course of this show. These are so significant to understanding the work, that a reader of this script can recognize them, even if he or she has never seen a production of A Doll’s House.

It keeps the watcher outside the world which helps us learn the life lessons instead of empathizing with the characters in which was present in Macbeth. The reader could feel the guilt and anger that was going through Macbeth’s head as well as in Lady Macbeth’s. Both the play and the movie might have great similarities, but each has its own unique way to deliver the message to the reader/viewer. The philosophy in Throne of blood takes us well over Shakespeare, but they both serve the purpose of the story perfectly. Both Macbeth and Throne of Blood are unique in their own way, whether it’s the way the characters react, or to the themes.

That plan is stopped when Friar John goes to look for another Friar to accompany him to his voyage to Mantua. When he finds one the health officials quarantine him in a house that was hit with the plague. He says that they, “Sealed up the doors and would not let us forth. So that my speed to Mantua there was stayed” (5.2 11-12). If the Friar just stuck to the plan, Romeo wouldn’t jump to conclusions when he is told that his lover Juliet has died.

Most characters in this story ignore opinions and facts that are true. This is shown when the judge says, “The Reverend Brown has asked me to make this announcement. There will be a prayer meeting tonight on the courthouse lawn, to pray for justice and guidance.”(Lawrence and Lee 48). Brown wants a religious meeting which shows how ignorant he is to Drummond and evolution. Drummond wants a evolution meeting, but the judge doesn’t let him.

Act 3 scene 3 opens up with King Claudius summoning Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to escort Hamlet, whose madness has caused countless issues in the castle, to England. Claudius cannot tolerate Hamlet’s actions any longer and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern agree to this order. After all of this has occurred, Claudius is finally left alone to his thoughts.

Edgar Allen Poe uses dramatic irony to build suspense in “The Tell Tale Heart” by making the character and the reader conflict. An example of this in the text is “Wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body...I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head arms and legs,”(Poe 4). Another example are when the narrator uses the words cleverly and cunningly to describe how he did his actions(Poe 4). These text examples prove there is conflict because the narrator believes he is making a wise decision by dismembering a corpse, but the reader knows dismembering a corpse and then being proud of it and believing it is okay is psychotic.

Parris is afraid of what others might think of him and avoids facing the congregation in order to evade the topic of witchcraft. He expresses this in a conversation with Thomas Putnam, by saying, “ I know that you-you least of all, Thomas, would ever wish so disastrous charge laid upon me. We cannot leap to witchcraft. They will howl me out of Salem for such corruption in my house”(13). With this, Arthur Miller shows how caring too much about reputation can turn people into cowards.

The woman’s request is that “… ‘my house is prepared for you, if you will accept my hospitality, but you shall find shelter there only on condition that you will lie with me’…”, which is essentially saying that Lancelot can only be sheltered and fed if he decides to have sex with the woman (Chrétien 1). The reason Lancelot refuses (at first) is because he only has the heart for Guinevere. To lie with another woman would be to betray his true love, even if he cannot have her because she is his King’s wife. Another reason could be that he does not want to allow her to believe he could love her, and thus be leading her on. Lancelot is a chivalrous knight and would not want to make a woman feel that she was used.

In this scene Hamlet begins the “To be or not to be” soliloquy. There are many mirrors in the room, but Kenneth Branagh decides to make Hamlet speak to the one that the King and Polonius are hiding behind. In the “To be or not to be speech” Hamlet talks about life after death and how people are afraid of the end. While Hamlet speaks to himself in the mirror he believes no one is there. As he moves closer to the one way mirror, staring at his reflection while speaking of death, he suddenly pulls out his knife and points it at the mirror.