HUM105 Great Ideas of World Civilizations
Discussion Forum 10
What is this play about?
Here it is! This is our last official discussion forum. For this week, we will be talk about Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. I’ve chosen this as our last reading assignment for the semester because, as I hope you’ll see, the play deals in some way with every topic we have discussed throughout the semester: gender and sexuality, power and justice, certainty, faith and doubt, and self-awareness. Therefore, I want you to use the play to look back at the questions and the many possible answers to them that we’ve discussed, and re-examine them one more time, this time through the lens of this one play.
Between now and 11:59 pm, Thursday, April 25th, please post your first response to the question below. In your first response, include at least one quotation from the play in support of your answer. You can also use quotations from other sources, but you must use a line from Hamlet at least once. Then, wait until your classmates have posted their first responses. Read them, and choose one of your classmates’ posts to respond to. Have this one done by 11:59 pm, Sunday, April 28th. Again, use a quotation from the play, and make sure that it’s different from the quotation you already used in your first post.
As always, make sure you do at least one of the following for each of your posts:
Be the first to post an answer to the question. (You get extra credit if you do!)
Agree, but then add to what someone else has already said.
Disagree with something already said, but explain why you disagree.
Add a new element or new idea to the discussion.
Again, do not just agree, disagree, go off on an unrelated tangent, or base your argument on “It’s just my opinion”. Give reasons.
Here’s this week’s question:
Of the issues that the play raises, what is, for you personally, the most important issue that the play Hamlet confronts? Why do you see this as the most important issue? What does the play seem to say about it? What do you think about what the play seems to be saying?
As in our past discussions, make sure you post at least twice. Use a quotation from the play in each of your posts this time. The first one is due by Thursday night. Your second post, your response to a classmate, should be posted by the end of the day, Sunday.
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