Class 2-12-08

1. He first made us look through our notebooks and write on a piece of paper which one we liked the most. Then he put them in the middle of the class and we all took one and he collected the notebooks. Then he explained the paper for the notebooks which is due on Thursday. We have to react to the quote that we received and we have to write if we agree with it or not, or if we like it. You can write if you understand it or don't understand it, if we respect it or don't respect it. The paper has to be 1-2 pages long, double spaced, with a intro, body and a conclusion.

2. He then told us that after we get the notebooks back we can wear them until we are done with Hamlet for extra credit, and there will be a paper at the end, and the same rules apply for it.

3. We started to talk about Hamlet act. 3 scene 1. We talked about when Claudius has his aside in lines 55-60. Mr. Lazarow said it has been interpreted as a confession for something and it could be a confession for the murder, but it is not made sure, and it just acts as a tension builder for the reader and makes them keep thinking. Also when he talks about the Harlot’s cheek, he just meant that you can change the outward appearance of someone but it doesn't change who they are on the inside and they still are bad. They also had to put make up on whores back then because they had syphilis.

4. When then talked about Hamlets "To be or not to be" speech. And it really is about weather or not he should kill himself or not. He says you can either suffer through life and just deal with it or you can try to fight it, but either way you do die. He then compares death with sleeping but you just don't wake up, and then he starts to think that he doesn't want to die anymore because he is unsure of what will happen to him after death and he is to afraid of it.

Dylan Ketchel