Act 5-Carli: Language and Personal Response

Language
1) my gorge rises: I feel sick, or nauseated. -Scene 1 Line 187
Hamlet says this when he is holding his old friend Yorick's skull. It makes him sick to think he is holding the skull of a once very important person to him, that he loved him and once kissed the dead lips he was looking at.

2) cozenage: trickery, the act of tricking of decieving someone. -Scene 2 Line 67
Hamlet uses this word when he talks about the evil deeds the king did in manipulating various things in Hamlets life, like the death of his father and turning his mother into a whore.

3) lapwing: a bird that draws intruders away from its nest and was thought to run around when hatched with its head in the shell. -Scene 2 Line 184
This is a reference to Osric as he leaves, his hat being the shell.

4) o'ercrows: triumphs over, overtakes -Scene 2 Line 355
Hamlet states that the poison has overtaken him, his death is coming fast.

5) cries on havoc: proclaims slaughter or mayhem -Scene 2 Line 366
Fortinbras shows up and sees all the dead bodies so he knows chaos or mass murders have taken place.

Personal Response
I loved the way it all ended, not because they all died but just how they did. It was so unexpected and ironic. It was so clever. It wasn't sad to me just because its hard for me to see emotion or drama in the text. It seems so blunt and straight forward that I can't feel emotional about it. Watching this scene in the movie will definitely change that I believe. I am glad that Horatio lived and that Hamlet stopped him before he drank the poison. If Hamlet would have just acted from the beginning and avenged his father right away, none of this would have happened. He could have saved a lot of lives by killing him sooner as ironic as that is. But overall I loved that story and especially the surprising ending.