Act II Scene 2 Overview (Part 3)

Conversation Between: Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Hamlet

Jokes:
G: (line 247) He says they aren't very lucky, and he personifies Fortune
H: Says but your not down and out, you're just being abused by Fortune
R/G: In the middle - "Fortune's naughty parts"
- Fortune's 'lover'
- "Privates" aka Foot Soldiers, lowest rank
- Fortune bosses us around- at Fortune's whim

H: Has "bad dreams"
G: Dreams are just ambitions
but ambition is nothing: can't be positive or negative it's a shadow's shadow
can't be held back by ambition
H: thinks revenge is most important now, not worried about R & G and doesn't view them as equals or friends.
H: gets R&G to admit that the King and Queen sent them to spy on Hamlet

Hamlet's current (poor) condition:
lost happiness- no longer impressed by things
especially by man (and woman)
acts very depressed- "Melancholy Dane"
things that used to make him happy no don't
man once was GREAT now not so much

-Brianna Lee