I've got Camosun college memoir teacher, Yvonne Blomer, booked to visit the class, Oct. 29th to get you started on your memoir.
Today, we re-read Hamlet's first soliloquy (1.2.129-159) and worked in groups to provide answers to the following question:
Discuss the use of any three of the following techniques used in the sililoquy that reveal Hamlet's state of mind. What is the technique? How does it reveal his state of mind. Don't simply say that he is suicidal. There is more to the soliloquy than that.
Search for any three of the following:
- imagery
- hyperbole
- diction (word choice)
- tone
- rhetorical questions
- allusions
- punctuation
- puns
- what is unstated
- figurative language (metaphor, simile, personification,)
Your thesis and subsequent evidence needs to explore an idea that is not directly stated in the soliloquy. It says he is suicidal and upset so these two ideas will not be in your thesis, right?
Good luck.
If you were absent today, get the notes from a friend. I expect your paragraphs on Thursday, too.
