1. Hamlet The Classical Tragic Hero

2. What is a Tragic Hero? Properties of the Tragic Hero Aristotle

3. Character Development of the Tragic Hero Hamlet Tragic Flaw

4. Rhetorical Devices “Not so, my lord. I am too much in the sun.” (Act I. Scene 2. Line 68) “Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?” (Act III. Scene 2. lines 362-363)

5. Rhetorical Devices “’Tis an unweeded garden, that grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature possess it merely.” (Act I. Scene 2. line 137-139) “Why, then, it is none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison.” (Act II. Scene 2. lines 263-265)

6. Significant Quotations “But two months dead – nay, no so much, not two – so excellent a king, that was, to this Hyperion to a satyr” (Act I. Scene 2. line 140-142) “But two months dead – nay, no so much, not two – so excellent a king, that was, to this Hyperion to a satyr” (Act I. Scene 2. line 140-142) “You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal – except my life, except my life, except my life.” (Act II. Scene 2. line 229-231) “You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal – except my life, except my life, except my life.” (Act II. Scene 2. line 229-231) “’Tis as easy as lying. Govern these ventages with your fingers and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music.” (Act III. Scene 2. line 350-352) “’Tis as easy as lying. Govern these ventages with your fingers and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music.” (Act III. Scene 2. line 350-352) “You would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops, you would pluck out the heart of my mystery, you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass, and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?” (Act III. Scene 2. line 356-363) “You would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops, you would pluck out the heart of my mystery, you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass, and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?” (Act III. Scene 2. line 356-363)

7. Significant Quotations “With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May, and how his audit stands who knows save heaven? But in our circumstance and course of thought, ’Tis heavy with him. And am I then revenged, to take him in the purging of his soul, when he is fit and seasoned for his passage? No! up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent: When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed, at gaming, swearing, or about some act that has no relish of salvation in it.” (Act III. Scene 4. line 84-95) “With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May, and how his audit stands who knows save heaven? But in our circumstance and course of thought, ’Tis heavy with him. And am I then revenged, to take him in the purging of his soul, when he is fit and seasoned for his passage? No! up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent: When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed, at gaming, swearing, or about some act that has no relish of salvation in it.” (Act III. Scene 4. line 84-95) Secondary Source Quotation "Hamlet is not a man of action deliberately, but a scholar, a "Hamlet is not a man of action deliberately, but a scholar, a man of thought and consideration and learning, and many man of thought and consideration and learning, and many critics feel the imbalance between his active and passive critics feel the imbalance between his active and passive natures is a tragic flaw that makes his wretched fate natures is a tragic flaw that makes his wretched fate inevitable." (Rubie, 133) inevitable." (Rubie, 133)

8. Creative Connection “Have you ever been hated or discriminated against? I have, I've been protested and demonstrated against.” “Have you ever been hated or discriminated against? I have, I've been protested and demonstrated against.” “My whole life I was made to believe I was sick when I wasn't 'til I grew up, now I blew up. It makes you sick to ya stomach, doesn't it?” “My whole life I was made to believe I was sick when I wasn't 'til I grew up, now I blew up. It makes you sick to ya stomach, doesn't it?” “I got some skeletons in my closet and I don't know if no one knows it. So before they thrown me inside my coffin and close it, I'ma expose it.” “I got some skeletons in my closet and I don't know if no one knows it. So before they thrown me inside my coffin and close it, I'ma expose it.”

9. Creative Connection “I maybe made some mistakes but I'm only human. But I'm man enough to face them today.” “I maybe made some mistakes but I'm only human. But I'm man enough to face them today.” “Now I would never dis my own mama just to get recognition. Take a second to listen for you think this record is dissin,‘ But put yourself in my position.” “Now I would never dis my own mama just to get recognition. Take a second to listen for you think this record is dissin,‘ But put yourself in my position.” “What I did was stupid, no doubt it was dumb, but the smartest !@#$ I did was take them bullets out of that gun. Cuz id'a killed 'em” “What I did was stupid, no doubt it was dumb, but the smartest !@#$ I did was take them bullets out of that gun. Cuz id'a killed 'em” “See what hurts me the most is you won't admit you was wrong. !@#$%, do ya song. Keep tellin' yourself that you was a mom.” “See what hurts me the most is you won't admit you was wrong. !@#$%, do ya song. Keep tellin' yourself that you was a mom.”

10. The End Thank You