Guidelines: Your paper should be 3 and half pages in length, typed in Times New Roman style, with 12-point font size. Avoid 1st and
2nd person voice in your writing. No research is required, but there are critical essays available to read and use on D2L. Feel free
to quote from them and use them in your writing (either to incorporate into your argument, or to argue against.) No Works Cited page
is required.
Directions: First, choose one of the 4 dramas we have read in class (Hamlet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Oedipus Rex, or Antigone). “I picked Hamlet” Then, choose one of the 3 or 4 questions that is associated with the drama. You must focus your paper on answering the
question posed. Therefore, you do not need to create your own thesis for this paper—but you do need to use quotes from the drama in
support of your argument and avoid a “plot summary.”
As always, please proofread your paper before finally submitting your paper to D2L dropbox.
No Late Papers or emailed will be accepted under any circumstance. Please submit them to D2L dropbox.
Extensions granted on a case-by-case basis.
Hamlet
Explain the function of the Gravediggers at the beginning of Act V and why they have such an affect upon Hamlet and his thoughts on
life and death. What is the significance of his “Alas, poor Yorick” speech following this meeting with the main Gravedigger.
Discuss Hamlet’s “madness” in the play. At what points do you feel Hamlet is faking madness, and at what points is he actually “mad.”
[Please keep in mind that I mean mad/madness as insanity, not feeling upset.] How does Hamlet’s madness shape the play?
Discuss why Hamlet’s inactivity and why he does not take immediate action against Claudius. How does the Ghost of Hamlet’s father
affect Hamlet’s indecisive and inactive nature? How does Hamlet’s “Mousetrap” play work into this argument of indecisive and
inactiveness in Hamlet? (look at the end of Hamlet’s soliloquy at the very end of Act II, the “O, what a rogue and peasant slave am
I!” Perhaps something Hamlet says here about ‘the ghost’ will help with your analysis.)
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