Small group work
Students to work in small groups to analysis each of the main soliloquies.
Report back to the class on it.
In your report deal with:
1. Where is the soliloquy in the play? Contextualize it.
2. How (language) does your speech present these ideas? What are the key images in this soliloquy?
3. What does your soliloquy reveal about Hamlet’s inner conflict?
4. Consider the following ideas on:
q Certainty,
q Death,
q Humanity
q Appearance and reality,
q Fate
q Free will,
q Doubt,
5. What does this speech tell us about the social and historical context of the play?