Podcast - HAMLET (Act II Scene I - II)

ACT II SCENE I

Polonius: Nattanun
Reynaldo: Patthita
Ophelia: Phatjanant

http://www.mediafire.com/?djvijtuyp9pbpez

ACT II SCENE II

King: Nattanun
Hamlet: Patthita
Polonius: Phatjanant

http://www.mediafire.com/?ydnti8pp58ioj2d

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Response Journal - HAMLET

Response Journal for Act 1, Scene 1 to Act 1, Scene 5

1. How does the play make you feel at this point? 

At this point of the play, I feel that Hamlet is a very unique and interesting story. It gives a sense of attachment to my thinking. Hamlet makes me feel like he's an unexpected character in the story because of his erratic behavior after his father's death and after he saw the king ghost. I always have a feeling that it will be just a normal boring story because it's antique and written by Shakespeare. But I was wrong because I never read Shakespeare's story before, Hamlet is just exciting and dubious for me to follow along.

2. In what situations have you felt similar 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?

a. I felt similar to rumor situation that I always have a false rumor. I believe in some of the  rumors but sometimes it just wrong because it isn't the truth that have been confirmed. From the play, they spread the rumor about the ghost and some characters didn't believe in it at first, such as Hamlet, then Hamlet saw it by himself. I need to know that it's true and I need to prove it whether to make me believe.

b. I think I connected to Hamlet the most in the play because I would be in the same situation as him if I know that my own uncle killed my father to seize the throne. I would be very revengeful but not as much as Hamlet though. I would use another way to ruin his life and make him feel the pain; torture him bit by bit. Everyone would feel disgust if their own mother re-married with their own uncle, same as me here and Hamlet.

c. From my own experience, I felt that Horatio is the most trust-able friend. Like my friend, she can be trust-able and she's my best and good friend. Sometimes I think that she will forget the work but no; she always finish the work on time. When I told her the secret, she will keep it until I tell her that it can be reveal.

3. What portions of Shakespeare’s language attracts your attention? These might be individual words, phrases, lines, scenes, or images.

I think it would be a lot of words because there are many of the old writing language such as say'st, hic et ubique, O'ermaster't ,and etc. It may be because of the unknown language that I didn't know so it attracts my attention to the words. Some words I can't read nor understand it but it seems to be very elegant and charming.

4. Make note of any portion of the play, its language, or events that cause you problems.

As I answered in the third question, some words are just hard to understand because of its antique language. Some conversations seem to disturb me very much because I don't understand, it seems to be so poetry even though it's not. The play that cause me the problems would be the ghost part because it seems to be impossible for the ghost to know the cause of their own death. (Every movies that I watched, the ghost can't remember the cause so they still stay in the world, Caution; Reader discretion is strongly advised).