act 5

Ophelias funural
Laertes blames it on Hamlet
they get into a fight over whos fault it is that ophelia died.
Gertrude dirnks from the cup and dies
laertes wounds hamlet
hamlet hurts laertes
hamlet kills claudius
They all die

act 4

Gertrude tells Claudius what has happened. they send Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to find the body.
when they go and talk to them he wont tell them were he has put it.
the king says he is sending Hamlet to england. He then tells that he is going to kill him.
Ophelia is mad about her father dying which makes Laertes mad because his sister is sad. Horatio is given a letter from Hamlet.
Claudius gets a letter too that says how he is coming back
Ophelia drowns.

act 3

they don't know what is wrong with Hamlet.
they have Ophelia talk to him. He tells her that he never loved her. and that she needs to go to a nunnery.
Hamlet asks them all to go to the play. He has the actors act out how the king killed hamlet. In the middle of it the king gets upset and leaves.
Hamlet mom wants to talk to him.
He goes and talks to her. poloinus is hiding and listening to their convesation. He yells for help and hamlet kills him..
Hamlet is going to kill the king but sees that he is praying and doesn't want to send him to heaven so he decides to wait until he is commiting a sin.

act 2

Polonius sends people out to check up on Laertes
As soon as he sends them off Ophelia comes and tells her father how Hamlet has gone crazy
Polonius sees that he is crazy because he can't see her anymore and goes to tell the king.
the king and queen get old friends of hamlet to spy on him. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Polonius comes and tells them that the reason that he is mad is because he cant see Ophelia
Hamlet comes and talks to Polonius and rosencrantz and guildenstern and he knows they are sping on him
A bounch of actors come and he tells them to deliver a speach
Hamlet tries to get them to act it out the next day

act 1

Barnardo, Francisco, and Horatio see the ghost. the ghost comes but wont talk to them. they think that it is the ghost of the late king hamlet.
King Claudius holds a meeting. He gives permision to Laertes to go back to France. Hamlet asks him for permision to go back to Wittenberg but the king won't let him.
Hamlet is mad because his uncle and his mom got married and it has only been one month sence his dad died.
Horatio, Barnardo, and Marcellus come and tell Hamlet about the ghost.
Laertes is saying goodbye to his sister and tells her that she shouldn't see Hamlet and that she shouldn't trust him. Their dad Polonius comes and says goodbye to Laertes. Then he also tells Ophelia that Hamlet isn't right for her. and she is ordered not to see him anymore.
Claudius is drinking and Hamlet leaves and goes with Horatio and Marcellus to go see the ghost.
The ghost comes and wants to talk to Hamlet alone the others tell him not to go with the ghost but he still does.
The ghost says how he is Hamlets father and how Claudius is the one that killed him.
He shares how Claudius poisened him. he tells Hamlet to remember him.
When the ghost leaves the others come in and want to know what happened.
Hamlet makes them swear not to tell anybody what they saw that night.

notes

they build herot and they make lots of noise and it makes grendel mad.
He comes and attacks them and eats them
Nobody goes to herot anymore because they are scared of grendel.
Beowulf comes and says that he will kill grendel for them.
they are happy and celebrate and that night grendel comes and they get in a fight
beowulf rips off his arm and they hang it up for everyone to see.
they are happy and celebrate but then grendels mom comes because they killed her son.
she kills the kings friend
beowulf goes to find her and kills her
He returns and gets all kinds of rewards.
then he returns home
and tells his story.

key facts

It is a poem. is written in old English in the time range of 700 to 1000 ad. it is in third person and in past tense. the setting of the story is at around 500 ad. and also inclueds earlier historical events. Is placed in Denmark.

protagonist · Beowulf

major conflict · The poem essentially consists of three parts. There are three central conflicts: Grendel’s domination of Heorot Hall; the vengeance of Grendel’s mother after Grendel is slain; and the rage of the dragon after a thief steals a treasure that it has been guarding. The poem’s overarching conflict is between close-knit warrior societies and the various menaces that threaten their boundaries.

rising action · Grendel’s attack on Heorot, Beowulf’s defeat of Grendel, and Grendel’s mother’s vengeful killing of Aeschere lead to the climactic encounter between Beowulf and Grendel’s mother.

climax · Beowulf’s encounter with Grendel’s mother constitutes the moment at which good and evil are in greatest tension.

falling action · Beowulf’s glorious victory over Grendel’s mother leads King Hrothgar to praise him as a worthy hero and to advise him about becoming king. It also helps Beowulf to transform from a brazen warrior into a reliable king.

themes · The importance of establishing identity; tensions between the heroic code and other value systems; the difference between a good warrior and a good king

motifs · Monsters; the oral tradition; the mead-hall

symbols · The golden torque; the banquet

foreshadowing · The funeral of Shield Sheafson, with which the poem opens, foreshadows Beowulf’s funeral at the poem’s end; the story of Sigemund told by the scop, or bard, foreshadows Beowulf’s fight with the dragon; the story of King Heremod foreshadows Beowulf’s eventual ascendancy to kingship.

Grendel Reading

I think that the author meant for Beowulf to be a hero just because he is driving and determand to kill Grendel.
One example is that when Grendel hears about how Beowulf is coming to kill him because he is suposaly a hero because he has killed monsters before and wants to keep that reputaiton

Quest for Immortality Presentation

Many people today wish that they could be immortal. The most common reason that people look for immortality is that either they are scared of what comes after life or as in Gilgamesh he wants to bring his friend back. There are lots of different ways that people seek immortality. For some it is as crazy as freezing yourself, some scientist actually believe that some day you will be able to freeze your self and come back to life. But most people realize that it isn't going to just happen and that scientist need to keep researching, but there are many things we can do to live longer. Some things that people do because they think it will add years to their lives are:

Eating healthy
Exercising
Taking supplements
This is similar to Gilgamesh because people want to be immortal. The difference today is that we realize that its not going to happen we can only hope by what we do we can add years on to our lives.
Gilgamesh was willing to die if he had to because he wanted the secret to immortality for his friend. Today scientist are willing to spend their whole lives working on immortality but know that they still may die and never get it.
In Gilgamesh when the people start seeking immortality the gods get mad because only they are immortal and humans can't possibly do what they do. So the flood story that often appears in books is how the gods react to the peoples quest for immortality.
There are lots of medicines and treatments for most diseases. But in the end those don't matter because when it is your time to die death will find you.

Literary archetypes

Hero:

The hero is Gilgamesh. He is godlike, he is 2/3 god and only 1/3 human. He sets out to fight Humbaba. He is the king and in the end there are walls to protect Uruk.

Antihero:

This is also Gilgamesh. He is the antihero because he sets out to find immortality but when he doesn't find it he gives up hope. He sees that he has failed so he sees himself as useless. He lays down behind the wall by himself because he has o hope left.

Wise fool:

The wise fool is Utnupistim. Society wanted immortality and he wasn't looking for it. So when the gods made the flood they chose him to survive. Now he has the secret to immortality and Gilgamesh wants it from him.

Devil:

This is Ishtar. She has a connection with both good and bad. She is the goddess of love and fertility but at the same time the goddess of war. She brings war and evil to everything she does.

Outcast:

The outcast is Iniku. He is an outcast in the beginning because he lives with the animals. Then when the prostitute comes the animals outcast him because he sleeps with her.

"His friends

Had left him to a vast aloneness

He had never felt before. The lions returned

To the mountains, the water buffalo

To the rivers, the birds to the sky (18)". 

Double:

The double is immortality. Immortality is both good and bad. The gods are immortal. It gives you a sense of your place if you know that you are going to die. It lets you know that you are underneath the gods. When people start to seek immortality the gods get mad because that is like the people are saying that they are just as good as the gods are.

Scapegoat:

The scapegoat is Eniku. He is the scapegoat because the gods chose him to die because one of them needs to die and Gilgamesh is part god so they wont kill him. Society isn't ready for him. They think he is weird because he is like an animal.

Temptress: 

This is the prostitute. She goes to Eniku. She is unknown and he doesn't know how to act. She destroys his relationship with the animals because they sleep together. The prostitute turns him into a man and he meets Gilgamesh and ends up dying. She temps him to go with the humans and it ends up destroying him.

Good mother:

Ninsun is the good mother. When Gilgamesh has dreams he goes to her and she tells him the meanings of it. She gives Eniku and Gilgamsh guidance and encourages them to do what they believe in. So she helps them get the stregth  to go off and fight Humbaba. 

4

he realizes that it is pointless so he goes back to Uruk. he asks a blind man if he had heard the name Enkidu and he said no.
So he goes by the wall and lays down out of site of everyone else.

3

he is sad that his friend has died. He wanders off to the desert. he was all alone. he went insane. he desided that he had to find the secret of eternal life and bring it back to his friend. He sets out to talk to Utnapishim the one who servived the flood.
He goes to the Mashu mountains. the scorpion people can kill you just by looking at you but because he is part god they let him go through.
He then makes it to the road of the sun where he wandered through the dark repeating Enkidus name. He evenutaly comes upon a valley. In the valley lives a barmaid named Siduri and she sees him and lets him in. he tells her what the two of them have been through and how he has died and he is out to find the secret of imortality to bring him back to life. She tells him that he needs to talk to the boatman Urshanabi and he will tell Gilgamesh how to get to Utnapishim.
he finds some stones and smashes them into a thousand pieces. Urshanabi tells him that those were that sacred stones. He explanes to Urshanabi why he needs to get to Utnapishim.
he tells Gilgamesh that he needs to get a boatload of long treess and he will use them to push himself across the sea of death.
He is not to let his hands touch the water just keep using different poles when one gets rotted by the sea of death.
Utnapishtim is at the other side of the sea and Gilgamesh is sleeping when he shows up. utnapishtimis wondering who he is what his proplem is and what happened to the sacred stones.
Gilgamesh tells him about Enkidus.
Utnapishtim sees to things of hope in Gilgamesh. one is that he went that far for a friend and the other is that he knows that you must borrow light from the blind.
He tells gilgamesh that love is the only way to enternal life. you will have it forever.
In Shurrupak all the gods; anu, enlil, and ishtar made a plan of a great flood.
Ea is scared of the winds and goes to Utnapishtim and tells him to tear down his house and build a boat and bring with him the seed of all the living cratures. He got the boat all ready and the rains came. the rain came for seven whole days. he saw all the people die and only wanted to help their loved ones and bring them back.
he falls asleep when they go back to Utnapishtims house and his wife bakes bread for everyday that he sleeps. when he wakes he learns that he has slept for 7 days.
he yells across the sea to the boatman to let him get home untired and be young again.
they burn his things because they just remind himl of his dead friend.
There is a plant in the river that will bring Gelgamesh new life.
He makes it back to the other side and rest in the pool, but when he gets out he sees that his plant is gone so he starts to cry.

2

Gilgamesh tells Enkidu that they need to go to the forest of Humbaba to kill humbaba, the evil one.
Enkidu is scared but agrees because Gilgamesh and him are friends and he said that they would always stay together no mater what the obstacle.
Enkidu is scared that they are going to die. but Gilgamesh tells him that he shouldn't be scared of death because it is going to happen only the gods are immortal.
They went to talk to the elders to tell them that they are going.
They get their armor and leave. When they are leaving the people are yelling to let Enkidu leave because he knows the forest and the one in the front will die and save the other.
The visit Ninsun before they leave. She asks the gods to protect him and she gives Enkidu a charm around his neck so he can be protected as Gilgamesh is.
They travel for three days and get to the gates of the forest. Enkidu touches the gate and his hand goes numb.
They go into the dark forest and find a place at the edge of the forest to sleep that night.
They have a hard night and neither of them can really sleep. they have bad dreams and Enkidu is in pain. He wakes up and says that in his dream he learned that only one of them would make it out alive.
at dawn Gilgamesh starts to cut down a great cedar and Humbaba comes after them.
He strikes enkidu on the back and makes him fall to the ground.
Gilgamesh gets over him with his ax right before he kills Hambaba Hambaba tells him that if he does't kill him he will serve them like he sirves the gods but Enkidu ells Gilgamesh not to trust him so Gilgamesh kills him.
Ishtar comes and tells Gilgamesh that he should marry her, but he tells her no. He calls her a fat whore .
She goes to her dad Anu and tells him that they need to send the bull of heaven to them.
The bull goes after Gilgamesh and Enkidu tries to help his friend and grabs the bull by the tail and stabed it in the neck.
the stands on the walls of Uruk and yells "grief to those who have insulted me and killed the bull of heaven"
Enkidu heard it and through the thigh from the bull at her face and said that if he could he would kill her too.
Enkidu woke and told his friend that he has to die because of what they did. He said the gods wont kill Gilgamesh because he is 2/3 god.
Shamash said that Enkidu is innocent and all the gods started to argue
At the end of chapter 2 Enkidu dies.