Hamlet Act 3 Scene 3 The king attempts

Hamlet Act 3, Scene 3 § The king attempts to pray forgiveness § Hamlet has Claudius at his mercy but does not kill him.

Find the quote when Claudius says… 1. The murder of his brother is obvious. 2. He is blighted/plagued 3. He wants pity

Find the quote when Claudius says… 1. My offence is rank, it smells to heaven 2. What if this cursed hand/were thicker than itself with brother’s blood 3. Forgive me my foul murder

He continues… “That cannot be since I am still possessed Of these effects for which I did the murder…” What are these ‘effects’?

Quick Question • What stops Hamlet from murdering his stepfather?

• There is elegance in Claudius’s soliloquy – unlike Hamlet’s introspective, tense, panicked and confused words. It is also different from the rhetorical hypocrisy we saw earlier in the opening scenes of the play. Claudius inhabits the same “moral universe” as his nephew, because he is also worried about going to hell.

• Despite his scepticism, Claudius’s “prayer” saves his life, producing a richly ironic couplet which ends the scene: “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below / Word without thoughts never to heaven go. ” (Lines 97 -98)

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