Fate
My fate cries out,
And makes each petty artery in this body
As hardy as the Nemean lion’s nerve.
(Hamlet, 1.4.91), Hamlet
[You live] in the secret parts of Fortune?
O, most true; she is a strumpet.
(Hamlet, 2.2.235), Hamlet to Guildenstern
Our wills and fates do so contrary run
That our devices still are overthrown;
Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.
(Hamlet, 3.2.208), Player King
You must sing a-down a-down,
An you call him a-down-a.
O, how the wheel becomes it! It is the false
steward, that stole his master’s daughter.
(Hamlet, 4.5.176), Ophelia
There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is’t to leave betimes?
(Hamlet, 5.2.214), Hamlet to Horatio
1 introduction
2 metaphors
Fortune is a strumpet/ sea of troubles
world’s and flesh’s rage,
Both refer the world as bad
3 rhythm
Iambic pentameter as a symbol of fate
4Rhyme
Ben Johnson ryhymes could mean he is happy
Hamlet doest rhyme he is sad
5rhetorical questions
Than fly to others that we know not of?The undiscover’d country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
And if no other misery, yet age?.
Both Johnson and Hamlet don’t know what could have happened next. Johnson doest know what life troubles his son could experience while Hamlet comments on running away from those troubles life throws at you. Jonsons son did this but Johnson thinks that undiscovered country is better.
6 Repetition
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
To die: to sleep;
Dylan thomas wants his father to rebel against death while hamlet considers dieing (sleeping).
Poem written die dieing father,
Hamlets father was killed , he loved him he is sad
Dylan Thomas loves his FATEHR AND IS SAD THAT he is dieing
Dylan thomases dad read Shakespeare to his son and wanted to be a poet but stayed an english teacher
Dylan and Hamlet are in a similar situation 300 years apart they both take something from their fathers
Dylan love for literature, Hamlet throne ,
Hamlet ends up in a worse situation and decides life is not worth it anymore , the view is different because Dylan thomas wants his father to rebell death but hamlet wants to die as if Dylan thomas was persuading Hamlet to not die.
7 Metaphor
My fate cries out,
And makes each petty artery in this body
As hardy as the Nemean lion’s nerve.
Exacted by thy fate, on the just day.
Hamlet relates to the Neamean Lion who is part of the greek mythology and is known for being hard to kill but only destructable from his own claw. In a way that hamlet can only be killed from something that is his fault like his consiousnes that causes him to suicide. Ben jonson however believes that it is fate that decides everything and that fate decided to take his son and it was the right thing to do. Hamlet believes this and thinks that fate has decided that he needs to be like the Nemean lion since only himself can kill him .
8 metaphor
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
It is the false
steward, that stole his master’s daughter.
Dylan thomas thinks that fate is not real and you can cheat it , Therefore those grave men have the power over the way they die and their eyes can see with blinding sight *accurate_ and cheat death. The steward that stole his masters daughter suggests that this is not supposed to happen in the eyes of everyone else. It is something rare but it can happen sometimes.
Different times
1600vs 1950 before they believe in fate and God much more then in 1950.
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