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Ⅲ.Cultural Studies Practice Two Characters in Hamlet: Marginalization with a Vengeance 人社系101級 9753003 王安琪 Power relationship The cultural and new historical emphases on power relationship. Veeser credited the new historicists with dealing with “questioning of politics, power, indeed on all matters that affect people’s practical lives”. Ex. Jonathan Swift’s Laputa Jonathan Swift’s Laputa 天空之城Laputa 這一說來源於英國人 Jonathan Swift 在1726年寫的小說 《格列佛遊記》 （Gullivers Travels）中的內容。小說中提到了一個科技高度發達的國度，其人住在漂浮在天空中的城市里。 他們無時無刻不在想問題，尤其是數學，但是缺少對常識和常理的運用，做起事來既復雜又僵化。 Rosencrantz’s speech The singular and peculiar life is bound With all the strength and armour of the mind To keep itself from noyance; but much more That spirit upon whose weal depends and rests The lives of many. The cease of majesty Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw 每一個庶民都知道如何遠禍全身，一身赴天下重寄的人，尤其應該刻刻不懈地防備危害的襲擊。君主的薨逝不僅是個人的死亡，它像一個漩渦一樣，凡是在它身旁的東西，都要被他捲去同歸於盡； Rosencrantz’s speech Whats near it with it. It is a massy wheel, Fixd on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things Are mortised and adjoind; which, when it falls,(20) Each small annexment, petty consequence, Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone Did the King sigh, but with a general groan. 又像一個矗立在最高山峰上的巨輪，它的輪輻上連附著無數的小物件，當巨輪轟然崩裂的時候，那些小物件也跟著它一齊粉碎。國王的一聲嘆氣，總是隨著全國的呻吟。 Read Between the Lines In response to Claudius’s plan to send Hamlet to England If read out of content, we can realize that it is both an excellent set of metaphors and a summation of the Elizabethan concept of the role and power of kingship. The passage is good if one looks at it alone, but it is simply not well known. The context and the speaker The speech is wholly in character. Plot-driven:empty of personality Sycophantic in a sniveling way Eager to curry favor with power Even less successfully they try to play on Hamlet’s metaphorical “pipe”. Hamlet’s “pipe” From Act 3, Scene 2 Hamlet: You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would