What was Bohannon discovered by the end of her storytelling experiment?
By the end of the story she realizes that you can see it differently because their perspective is different and you can see it thru different cultural standards. There is no meaning in a text until someone reads it and interprets it. Everyone will interpret the text differently.
How did the Tiv react to the marriage of Hamlet’s mother to his uncle and why How was this different from Hamlet’s own emotional reaction?
How was this different from Hamlet’s own emotional reaction? In the Tiv culture, it is necessary for a widow to marry her husband’s younger brother. This counteracts against the original meaning because Hamlet is distressed when his uncle marries his mother seeing as he does it to be king.
Why did Hamlet’s mother married his uncle?
In Act 3 Scene 4, Hamlet accuses Gertrude of lust for marrying Claudius only few months after King Hamlet’s death – he believes that Gertrude married Claudius for he own desire.
What does Hamlet think of his uncle?
Hamlet is upset and feels his father’s memory has been betrayed because it had only been 2 months since his father’s death, and she wants to marry his uncle. In addition he criticises her as being frail that she would need another man in her life so soon. He thinks her tears and mourning were fake.
Why didn’t Hamlet kill Claudius when he was alone praying?
Hamlet does not kill Claudius when he assumes that he is praying because he doesn’t want Claudius to have the luxury of going to heaven while his father, unjustly murdered, suffers in hell. He doesn’t want to do Claudius the “favor” of sending him to heaven.
Does Hamlet want to sleep with Gertrude?
No, Hamlet did not sleep with his mother. There’s no evidence in the text to suggest that he did.
What scene does Hamlet not kill Claudius?
Why didn’t Hamlet kill Claudius when he had the chance at the end of act 3, scene 3? Hamlet hesitates to kill Claudius in act 3 because Claudius appears to be praying. Hamlet fears that if Claudius dies while praying, when his soul is at its most pure, he will go directly to heaven.
Does Ophelia know Hamlet killed her father?
He had only just returned to Denmark. Suddenly, Ophelia tells Hamlet that she cannot see him and won’t talk to him. After all, her father said: Ophelia could have killed herself by throwing herself into the water, but she instead dies through an accident.
Is Hamlet a teenager?
The news is that Hamlet is now an impetuous, impulsive teenager, more like a high school kid than the college boy he’s supposed to be. Tuomanen gives him a giddiness, too – this Hamlet’s mouth moves several times into a gotcha!