Hamlet+3.3

__**Hamlet 3.3**__ __Set the Scene__ As Claudius talks to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and then Polonius, they are in the center of the room with everything illuminated. When he is left alone, he moves away from the center of the stage/set and the light narrows but still gently illuminates the room so that the audience can see when Hamlet enters. Hamlet enters from a back door to the room and stands to the side looking at his uncle. the light shifts to him as he debates whether or not to kill Claudius. Claudius' last few lines are back with full lighting. Claudius should move around slightly with his soliloquy to show that he is honestly troubled. Hamlet stands still, focussing on Claudius the whole time but should still illustrate his inner battle between immediate satisfaction or strategical patience. __4. Quotations__ __8. Ambiguity/ 3. Questions__
 * "That cannot be, since I am still possessed/of those effect for which I did the murder:/ my crown, mine own ambition, and my queen./ May one be pardoned and retain th' offense?/ In the corrupted currents of this world,/offense's gilded hand may shove by justice,/and oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself/buys out the law. But tis not so above:/ there is no shuffling; there the action lies/ in his true nature and we ourselves complied,/...to give in evidence" (57-68). Claudius feels guilty for murdering his brother, but he still wants what he got from the crime. He wonders if he can even get forgiveness if he still reaps the benefits of his sin. I really like the comparison of justice on earth vs. justice in heaven, how one is corrupt and the other reminds me of the image of justice in a blindfold.
 * "A villain kills my father, and for that,/I, his sole son, do this same villain send to heaven" if Hamlet kills him in repentance (81-3). So Hamlet will wait until Claudius is doing something bad, "then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven,/and that his soul may be as damned and black/as hell, whereto it goes" (98-100). Hamlet has a lot of pressure to avenge his father, not only does he have to kill Claudius, but he also has to make sure he goes to hell. Why would his father ask this of him?
 * Why would Hamlet's father ask him to kill Claudius if he also appears wise and trusting in God/Fate/justice?
 * Hamlet speaks in iambic pentameter in his soliloquy but there are breaks, I think/if I read it right. Could this show his digression into madness?