AP Lit: Read Acts 3 Scenes 2 and 3 if you were absent

Congratulations to Erika Ruiter (2nd prize) and to Marc Charlebois and Shannon Riz (honourable mentions) in the national poetry competition. This competition is judged by poets so to be in the top 6 poems of the country is an incredible feat! Keep writing as clearly the world needs your poems!

Be sure to get the notes if you were absent.

I liked the discussions today as you continue to push yourself beyond the obvious.

So-- what is the purpose for the play within the play? Why does Hamlet wish to "drink hot blood" and why interject with that short scene of Claudius praying before Hamlet confronts his mother?

Think of the purpose of Act 3. What is happening here? Continue to look for good quotations for your literary essay on identity. How is it addressed in this act?

Is Horatio the ideal man? Does Hamlet's idealization of man seem attainable? Are there any conditions in which we need/want emotion?



The ideal man?