Response Journal for Act I, Scence 1 to Act I, Scence 3
1. How does the play make you feel at this point? Record your emotional response (s) in a few sentences and explore them for a few minutes, trying to figure out why you feel as you do.
It made me feel sorry for Hamlet when Hamlet's father died and the mother Gertrude is marrying the uncle Claudius. Hamlet had to go over many sad events. If it was me, I would feel like Gertrude betrayed me and my father. I will be in a big disappointment. And it made me curious about father's death too. Like us gphe really killed by poison or not.
2. In what situations have you felt samiliar to the characters? What persons, places, or ideas from your own experiences came to your mind while you were reading this portion of the play? Try to list at least three associations, but don't worry about trying to figure out why they came to mind. Just accept that they occur.
a. My feeling when I am stress because there are many tests and homeworks to review, but then I don't have enough time to review, and unlucky on that day my mother can't pick me up early piles up my stress and headache, it is similar to Hamlet's feeling when Hamlet's father died and Gertrude is going to marry Claudius. It's like I am stressed and sad with one thing already but other bad things keep on happening on that day, it makes me feel disappointed.
1. How does the play make you feel at this point? Record your emotional response (s) in a few sentences and explore them for a few minutes, trying to figure out why you feel as you do.
It made me feel sorry for Hamlet when Hamlet's father died and the mother Gertrude is marrying the uncle Claudius. Hamlet had to go over many sad events. If it was me, I would feel like Gertrude betrayed me and my father. I will be in a big disappointment. And it made me curious about father's death too. Like us gphe really killed by poison or not.
2. In what situations have you felt samiliar to the characters? What persons, places, or ideas from your own experiences came to your mind while you were reading this portion of the play? Try to list at least three associations, but don't worry about trying to figure out why they came to mind. Just accept that they occur.
a. My feeling when I am stress because there are many tests and homeworks to review, but then I don't have enough time to review, and unlucky on that day my mother can't pick me up early piles up my stress and headache, it is similar to Hamlet's feeling when Hamlet's father died and Gertrude is going to marry Claudius. It's like I am stressed and sad with one thing already but other bad things keep on happening on that day, it makes me feel disappointed.
b. My feeling when I see a scary dream is similar to the feeling when Horatio saw the ghost. I will be terrified and scared but other people cannot understand how I felt because they didn't see the dream that I saw.
c. I had the similar feeling as Laertus when my sister was going back to Japan alone to study for university. Even though she is older than me I worry about her because she is going to live there alone which she never experienced. Laertus was also worried about his sister Ophelia when she was going back to France.
3. What portions of Shakespear's language attracts your attention? These might be individual words, pharses, lines, scences, or images. Make note of whatever features draw your attention. Speculate for a few minutes about what you think they might mean.
The word that attracted me in this story was " 'Tis ". I never saw this kind of word in other books and it made me feel that Hamlet is unique because it uses different style of words. Like Dar'd, design'd, in't, and seiz'd. I think the meaning of these words are it's , dared, designed, isn't and seized.
4. Make note of any portion of the play, its language, or events that cause you problems. Note any questions that you might ask.
From this story I want to ask Gertrude, why did she marry Claudius? I want to know that didn't she feel sad about her husband's death and feel guilty about him... It is like she betrayed her son and her old husband, and quickly have a new husband. It stuck in my mind, why did Gertrude acted in this way and chose to marry Claudius in just 2months after Hamlet's father's death.
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