Analyze the last lines of Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest? (7 pages Double Spaced)
The lines will be in bold and found at the end of the prompt
Focus on the final lines of the three Shakespeare plays we (will) have read: Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest. In Simon Palfreyâs book, Doing Shakespeare, he notes how âShakespeare pretty much always ends his plays with a rhymeâ because ârhyme is expected to negotiate the playâs passage into closure,â but Palfrey quickly notes a few exceptions to this general rule: Hamlet, where âa rhyming couplet is followed by a single flat departing line,â The Winterâs Tale and The Tempest. Of course, one might wish to challenge Palfreyâs claim that The Tempest does not end on a rhyme because, well, it does, so long as we include Prosperoâs âEpilogue,â which immediately follows Act 5. This challenge to Palfrey, however, only raises another question: why did Shakespeare feel it necessary to append an epilogue to The Tempest but not the other two plays weâve read and discussed this semester? The question to answer here is âwhatâs up with Shakespeareâs endingsâ? Fortinbras, who speaks only half a dozen lines in the play prior to the final scene of Hamlet, delivers the last lines, presumably because he will be the next king of Denmark. But what is the effect of having this âoutsiderâ deliver the playâs final speech? And what, if anything, does Fortinbras know about the people and events that preceded his entrance onstage? How would you characterize Fortinbrasâ speech? Is it public? Political? If so, what public and/or political work does it do? In King Lear the character chosen to deliver the last lines, and thus presumably the next King of Britain, depends on whether you consult the 1608 Quarto or the 1623 First Folio: in the Quarto, Albany speaks the plays final four lines (a pair of rhyming couplets); in the Folio, those same lines are reassigned to Edgar. What difference does it make? What do the lines even mean? Do they sound more like something Albany (who has been a bit wishy-washy and has had trouble making up his mind about which side of the war he was fighting on) or Edgar (who has spent the entire play in a series of disguises including but not limited to Poor Tom, the bedlam beggar, and the âfair and warlikeâ knight (5.3.140) who fights Edmund in the playâs final scene) would say? Who speaks the final lines of The Tempest? Are there loose ends and unanswered questions at the end of this comedy? What, for example, will become of Caliban? Is his future and fate left for readers and audiences to decide? Write a minimum of 1 page. If you choose to write 7 pages on the significance of Shakespeareâs last lines, then congratulations! Youâre done with the exam!!
âLet four captains
Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage,
For he was likely, had he been put on,
To have proved most royally. And, for his passage,
The soldiers' music and the rites of war
Speak loudly for him.
Take up the bodies. Such a sight as this
Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss.
Go, bid the soldiers shootâ (Hamlet 5.2.397-405).
âThe weight of this sad time we must obey;
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
The oldest hath borne most: we that are young,
Shall never see so much, nor live so longâ (King Lear 5.3.383-386)
âNow my charms are all o'erthrown,
And what strength I haveâs mine own,
Which is most faint. Now, âtis true,
I must be here confined by you,
Or sent to Naples. Let me not,
Since I have my dukedom got
And pardoned the deceiver, dwell
In this bare island by your spell,
But release me from my bands
10With the help of your good hands.
Gentle breath of yours my sails
Must fill, or else my project fails,
Which was to please. Now I want
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant,
15And my ending is despair,
Unless I be relieved by prayer,
Which pierces so that it assaults
Mercy itself and frees all faults.
As you from crimes would pardoned be,
Let your indulgence set me free (The Tempest Epilogue.1-20).
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