Act 2 hamlet

How may we try it further?

Claudius He isn't convinced this is why hamlet is acting crazy. Paranoid

To give th' assay of arms against your Majesty

Voltemand

Still on my daughter

Polonius

"Slanders, sir; for the satirical rogue says here that old men have gray beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit together with most weak hams..."

- Hamlet (to Polonius) - Hamlet is insulting Polonius.

Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,

- Hamlet (to himself) - Hamlet wishes that he could do something about Claudius. But he just can't

"No, my good lord, but as you did command I did repel his letters and denied His access to me."

- Ophelia (to Polonius) - Ophelia reassures Polonius that she did what he asked her to: ignored Hamlet. Shows her utter obedience

O, vengeance! Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave, That I, the son of a dear father murder'd, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must, like a *****, unpack my heart with words, And fall a-cursing, like a very drab, A stallion!

Hamlet King Claudis is stealing Hamlets life and hamlet is too weak to do something about it

"More matter with less art"

Gertrude to Polonius same conversation as above, doesn't give less art

On fortune's cap, we are not the very button

Guildenstern They are alright not amazing

But we both obey...to lay our service freely at your feet, to be commanded

Guildenstern (about him and Rosencrants, to Claudius and Gertrude) they are going to betray Hamlet

"My lord, we were sent for"

Guildenstern- telling Hamlet why they're there

Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!

Hamlet About the king

for it cannot be But I am pigeon-liver'd and lack gall

Hamlet But hamlet is a coward

What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,

Hamlet But the actors don't even have a motive like him and they can still do it! Their ability to act and his inability to act

I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. I'll have these players Play something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play 's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.

Hamlet Guilty people watch, the kings facial expression will speak the truth. The play is a test to measure the kings guilt. Once it happens hamlet can't turn back.

"You were sent for, and there is a kind of confession in your looks which your modesties have not craft enough to color."

Hamlet He has seen the ties in their face

Then is doomsday near. But your news is not true. Let me question more in particular. What have you, my good friends, deserved at the hands of Fortune that she sends you to prison hither?

Hamlet He is suspicious that his friends are here

"Were you not sent for? Is it your own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come, come, deal justly with me. Come, come. Nay, speak."

Hamlet He knows!! Wants the truth from them

I have of late,—but wherefore I know not,—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire,—why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

Hamlet He lost all of his happiness and he doesn't do things he enjoys. To a pleasure to be alive. Poison all around him. Dust= beauty of human

We'll ha't tomorrow night. You could, for need, study a speech of some dozen of sixteen lines, which I would set down and insert in't, could you not ?

Hamlet He wants to expose the king. He will put in how the king died and hopefully get a reaction to see if what the ghost is saying is real or a lie.

Denmark's a prison

Hamlet He's bond to his fate/ revenge

Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit

Hamlet His true feeling are showing. He admires the courage of the act is. PARADOX bc the actors play roles

Am I a coward? Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face?

Hamlet The king is a bully and hamlet wants to stand up to him

Nor the soles of her shoe?

Hamlet U aren't poor tho

O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.

Hamlet says that he could fool himself into thinking that infinite space existed in a nutshell where he ruled as king were it not for his bad dreams. Get farrrrrr away from Denmark and his problems are solved

Can you play "the murder of gonzago"

Hamlet stage it

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.

Hamlet to Guildenstern Hamlet is only crazy when he wants to be; it is an act, and he is fully aware of what is going on. (Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 402-402) in saying this is is making himself sound even more crazy !!!

Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.

Hamlet to Polonius Hamlet mocking polonius

"But, in the beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore?"

Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; he's testing them again IN THE NAME OF FRIENDSHIP

"You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal-except my life, except my life, except my life."

Hamlet voices his despair at life to Polonius Death motif/hamlet can only be released through death

I am ill at these numbers. I have not art to reckon my groans, but that I love thee best, o more best, believe it adieu. Thine evermore , most dear lady, Whilst this machine is to him, hamlet

Hamlets letter to Ophelia read by polonius Creeper lunatic obsessing bf Blamed his lunacy on her

My lord, as I was sewing in my closet, Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced; No hat upon his head; his stockings fouled, Ungartered, and down-gyvèd to his ankle; Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other; And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosèd out of hell To speak of horrors—he comes before me.

Ophelia Hamlet is in disarray; he uses madness as a cloak.

O, my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted!

Ophelia She is telling her father about Hamlets behavior. Hamlet knew she would do this.

He took me by the wrist and held me hard; Then goes he to the length of all his arm; And, with his other hand thus o'er his brow, He falls to such perusal of my face As he would draw it. Long stayed he so. At last, a little shaking of mine arm, and thrice his head thus waving up and down, he raised a sigh to piteous and profound as it did seem to shatter all his bulk and end his being. That done, he lets me go, and with his head over his shoulder turned, he seemed to find his way without his eyes, for out o doors he went without theirs helps and to the last bender their light on me.

Ophelia to polonius Hamlet wants to mask his craziness so people don't suspect the ghost

"Mad for thy love?"

POLONIUS TO OPHLIA -does not comfort her -jumps to conclusions -not father-like, self centered

And he, repelled (a short take to make) fell into sadness and the into a fat, thence to a watch thence into a weakness thence a lightness and by his declension into the madness wherein now he raves and all we mourn for n

Polonius Because of Ophelia's reaction, hamlet is acting crazy...polonius is so self adsorbed

At such a time I'll loose by daughter to him. Be you and I behind an arras them.

Polonius Diction animal imagery possession of Ophelia Polonius and the king will "stand behind a curtain" and spy on hamlet

"come, go with me, I will go seek the king. This is the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property fordoes itself And leads the will to desperate undertakings as oft as any passions under heaven That does afflict our natures. I am sorry. What, have you given him any hard words of late?

Polonius He is going to tell the King exactly what Hamlet wants

When I had seen this hot love on the wing ( as I perceived it, I must tell you that before my daughter told me ), what might you, or my dear majesty your queen here, think, if I had played the desk or table book. Over given my heart a winking, mute and dumb, or looked upon this love with idle sight? What might you think? No I went round to work, and my young mistress thus I did speak: "lord hamlet is a prince out of thy star"

Polonius He saw the romance between Ophelia and hamlet and though the king would want to know. He told Ophelia that hamlet is out of her league

"How pregnant sometimes his replies are!"

Polonius How rich in meaning hamlets quotes are

"And how, and who, what means, and where they keep, What company, at what expense; and finding By this encompassment my son, come you more nearer Than your particular demands will touch it."

Polonius Polonius is sending Reynaldo to spy on Laertes

I hold my duty as I hold my soul, Both to my God and to my gracious King; And I do not think--or else this brain of mine Hunts not the trail of policy so sure As it hath used to do--that I have found The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy.

Polonius So self centered needs everything to be about him and what HE knows.

I fear he did but trifle and meant to wrack thee

Polonius Thought that hamlet only wanted to sleep with Ophelia, not that he loved her

How say you by that? Still harping on my daughter: yet he knew me not at first; he said I was a fishmonger: he is far gone, far gone: and truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for love; very near this. I'll speak to him again. What do you read, my lord?

Polonius He wants to be right

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."

Polonius aside about Hamlet during their conversation after Polonius' conversation with king and queen Even though hamlets is acting crazy, polonius suspects something smart going on

"-marry, none so rank As may dishonor him."

Polonius to Reynaldo Be careful what you say and don't dishonor laertes

'Faith, no, as you may season it in the charge. You must not put another scandal on him That he is not open to incontinency; that's not my meaning

Polonius to Reynaldo Don't make Laertes look bad

Why day is day, night night, and time is time. Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time, therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. Your noble son is mad

Polonius to king and queen Wowowowow how ironic

What do you think of me?

Polonius' question shows his egotism, ambition and self importance Of course he wouldn't let his daughter date a prince

His father's death and our (o'erhasty) marriage

Queen she admits the marriage was extremely fast and hamlet is acting normal THIS MEANS SHE KNOWLY SINS

But look where sadly the poor wretch comes reading.

Queen about her son HES READING MY LORD

To think, my lord, if you delight not in man, what lenten entertainment the players shall receive from you: we coted them on the way; and hither are they coming, to offer you service.

Rosencrantz Order actors to cheer him up

"O Jephtah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hast thou!?"

Said by Hamlet to Polonius; Jephtah was compelled to sacrifice his daughter; another comment on Polonius's daughter, Ophelia Aluding

"I entreat you... / that, being of so young days brought up with him / and sith so neighbored to his youth and havior / that you vouchsafe your rest here in our court / some little time, so by your companies / to draw him on to pleasures, and to gather / so much as from occasion you may glean / whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus / that, opened, lies within our remedy" (2.2)

The king He wants more spying

"The need we have to use you did provoke our hasty sending. Something have you heard of Hamlet's transformation, so call it, with not the exterior nor the inwards man resembles that it was. What should it be more that his father's death....

The king Needs rosencrantz and guildenstern to spy on Hamlet. The king feels something is up and is on edge because he doesn't want to be murdered or people to find out what he did.

And sure I am two men is not living to whom he more adheres.... for the supply and profit of your hope, your visitation shall receive such thanks as fits a kings remembrance.

The queen She is offering them money to betray hamlet!!

And I beseech you instantly to visit my too much changed son

queen

You are welcome. But my uncle-father and aunt- mother are deceived.

speaker: Hamlet talking to: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern explanation: he knows that Claudius sent them to spy but he's not mad at the spies