Hamlet Podcast

Scene 1

Vanantorn - Polonius

Sohyun - Rosencrantz

Tanat - Ophelia

Scene 2

Alek - King Claudius

Tanat - Hamlet

Vanantorn - Polonius

Sohyun - Rosencrantz



Scene 1

Scene 2

Hamlet Journal

Hamlet Journal

Response Journal for Act 1, Scene 1 to Act 1, Scene 5

Q1. How does the play make you feel at this point? Record your emotional response(s) in a few sentences and then explore them for a few minutes, trying to figure out why you feel as you do.

When I finished reading from scene one to scene five, I was surprised how a human can be so tainted like Claudius. He killed his own brother, married his brother’s wife, and seized the throne. I was also disgusted at Gertrude how she couldn’t live without man in her life. It seemed like she betrayed her former husband, King Hamlet, and married the one who killed his husband.

Q2. In what situations have you felt similar to the characters? What persons, places, or ideas from your own experiences came to your mind while you were reading this portion of the play? Try to list at least three associations, but don’t worry about trying to figure out why they came to mind. Just accept that they occur.

A. My brother Steve went to the United States for an exchange student two years ago. When my brother was leaving, my parents gave my brother a lot of advices. They told him not to spend too much money and time on entertainments and to study hard. When Leartes was leaving, his father gave him a few advices, and this reminded me of the situation of my own family as I read Hamlet.

B. I have a few friends I trust and tell secrets to. When I had problems I couldn’t solve, my friends helped me solve it. They gave me advices and helped me when I was in adversaries. I trust them and I know that they will come tell me if there are problems going around me too. My friends to me are like Horatio to Hamlet.

C. My parents are wiser and more experienced than I am. Therefore I listen to their advices even though I don’t like it, and most of the times, they are correct. My parents worry for me and tell me what’s best for me to do. I think it was same for Ophelia’s dad. He found out that Ophelia was in love with Hamlet, and he knew that they will not be able to be together after all. That’s why he prohibited his daughter to meet Hamlet.

Q3. What portions of Shakespeare’s language attracts your attention? These might be individual words, phrases, lines, scenes, or images. Make note of whatever features draw your attention. Speculate for a few minutes about what you think they might mean.

Hamlet is written in Old English, and I do not quite understand. However, as the title as one of the best writers, descriptions William Shakespeare used are very harmonious. One of the features that attracted my attention was when Claudius says “But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son.” Knowing that Claudius was the one who killed King Hamlet, I was very irritated. How can a person be son thick faced and act like the kindest person in the world? I think this phrase was quite important because it seemed like Claudius was kind at first, but later on when King Hamlet’s ghost tells Hamlet about his death, Hamlet feels betrayed.

Q4. Make note of any portion of the play, its language, or events that cause you problems. Note any questions that you might ask.

I wonder if Ophelia will really keep the promise of not seeing Hamlet again. If she can’t live without her love and breaks the promise with her dad, how would her dad and other people react, and exactly what would happen to Ophelia and Hamlet?

Spectator Sports - Science Fair

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           As one of the crowd, I flooded into the Bitec Science Fair. The first things that came into my sight were high ceiling and tall walls that were aggrandizing the stadium. Experiment rooms and shops that were selling toys, books, and other things were in the stadium. I glance at my friend Wonki, who looked disappointed and bored as he scanned through the stadium from left to right. With a sigh, I followed my friends to the deeper part of the stadium. There were so many students from many different Thai schools; they interestingly looked at us speaking English.

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           After a while, I saw my friends stop, and as I followed their eyes, a huge free fall slide beguiled as my friends. The slide was about two to three stories high, and as if to show off its grandiose size, many people were crowded around it. Wonki was gaping at the slide, and Ting-Wei, my other friend, was looking up at a girl on the slide. The girl’s hands were clasping tightly onto the pole. She looked very nervous, but finally she let her hands go slowly, and her body fell straight down. I saw her disappear behind a wall of the slide only about two seconds after she let go of the pole. It looked pretty precarious but fun at the same time. Wonki and Ting-Wei, who were always interested in things like rollercoaster, seemed to try the ‘Free Fall.’ They looked at me as if they were asking for permission and I nodded with a sigh. My friends ran to the end of the line, which many people were already lining up, and looked up at the height of the slide once again in excitement. 

            Suddenly, a bad smell went past in front of me. As I followed the smell, I saw a fat boy eating popcorn. His shirt was very wet from sweat, and he looked like he was having trouble breathing because of the crowd. He pushe dthe people around him, and they winced and stepped away from him. His demeanor seemed so rude that it made me frown too. Soon, he seemed comfortable and walked away toward the huge dinosaur figure which was placed next to the free fall slide. He didn’t have any friend accompanied with him, and he just stood there watching at the dinosaur. I looked at the line for the free fall slide to see my friends, and when I turned my face again to that boy after checking that my friends were still in line, he has already disappeared into the crowd. I do not know why I wanted to keep on spying on him, but I couldn’t find him, and he eating a handful of popcorn, looking up at the dinosaur, was my last view of him.