Hamlet

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Minor Characters essay

*Provide reliable introductory and contextual info* the true avouch of mine own eyes marcellus and then horatio he was a goodly king *helps to characterize major characters* it might lead you to the flood the snake that did steal thy father's life reynaldo's dialogue any woman who remarries killed her first husband *shows how well the way others behave around and talk about a person can represent that person's identity*

Corruption Act 1-2

- "Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain / If with too credent ear you list his songs, / Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open / To his unmaster'd importunity." Laertes to Ophelia saying that her honor will be corrupted if she listens to him too hastily or gives up her honor to him - 'The canker galls the infants of the spring / Too oft before their buttons be disclosed. / And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, / Contagious blastments are most imminent.' laertes 41 to ophelia. M.phor comparing cankerworms destroying flowers, especially young ones, to what laertes thinks men do - 'His virtues else,—be they as pure as grace, / As infinite as man may undergo, / Shall in the general censure take corruption / From that particular fault.' Hamlet act 1 scene 4 about how one bad trait can corrupt a man - "but know, thou noble youth, / The serpent that did sting thy father's life / Now wears his crown." Ghost 59 saying the "snake" that killed him is really Claudius - 'Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.' Ghost 61 saying Hamlet shouldn't kill Gertrude, but let God deal with her and let her live her life knowing what she's done - "O most pernicious woman! O villain, villain, smiling damned villain!... That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain!" Hamlet act 1 scene 5 saying that Gertrude is pernicious and Claudius is evil - 'As to expend your time with us awhile, For the supply and profit of our hope, Your visitation shall receive such thanks As fits a king's remembrance.' Gertrude to RG saying that they'll get compensation for spying - 'You laying these slight sullies on my son, As 'twere a thing a little soil'd i' th' working,' Polonius Act 2 Scene 1 to Reynaldo saying that he should say small bad things about Laertes as if they are small mistakes made in the normal course of adolescence, then goes on to say that this will cause people to say what Laertes is actually like - 'Out of my weakness and my melancholy, / As he is very potent with such spirits, / Abuses me to damn me.' Hamlet saying the devil might have been in the form of the ghost to get Hamlet to sin by murdering Claudius

What appears true vs. what is true Act 1

- "Therefore I have entreated him along / With us to watch the minutes of this night, / That if again this apparition come / He may approve our eyes and speak to it." - marcellus - (11) Horatio: "I might not this believe / Without the sensible and true avouch / Of mine own eyes" after seeing Hamlet's ghost - 'KING. How is it that the clouds still hang on you?' HAMLET. 'Not so, my lord, I am too much i' the sun.' pg. 25 - 'Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month... married with mine uncle' hamlet 29 - 'Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise, / Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.' hamlet 39 - 'A violet in the youth of primy nature, / Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, / The perfume and suppliance of a minute. / No more.' laertes 39 - 'think yourself a baby; / That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay, / Which are not sterling.' Polonius 47 saying ophelia - "but know, thou noble youth, / The serpent that did sting thy father's life / Now wears his crown." Ghost 59 - "That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain!" Hamlet act 1 scene 5 is saying that someone can seem nice and kind, but still be evil

Metaphors Act 1 Scene 4-5

- "indeed it takes / From our achievements, though perform'd at height, / The pith and marrow of our attribute." act 1 scene 4 Hamlet is saying that the custom of heavy drinking takes away from the core qualities of the nation - "but know, thou noble youth, / The serpent that did sting thy father's life / Now wears his crown." Ghost 59 saying the "snake" that killed him is really Claudius - 'Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.' Ghost 61 saying Hamlet shouldn't kill Gertrude, but let God deal with her and let her live her life knowing what she's done - 'Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat / In this distracted globe.' Hamlet 61 says he'll remember his dad as the ghost tells him to as long as memory remains in his head

Important Metaphors Act 1 Scene 1-2

- 'Ears, that are so fortified against our story' - barnardo pg. 9 in reference to Horatio not believing there's a ghost - 'To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom / To be contracted in one brow of woe;' act 1 scene 2 - 'KING. How is it that the clouds still hang on you?' HAMLET. 'Not so, my lord, I am too much i' the sun.' act 1 scene 2 - 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother... Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, / No, nor the fruitful river in the eye... That can denote me truly.' hamlet 25 to gertrude saying his outward expressions of grief aren't the only indication of his true feelings - 'Fie on 't, ah fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden / That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely.' hamlet 29 - 'Within his truncheon's length; whilst they, distill'd / Almost to jelly with the act of fear, / Stand dumb, and speak not to him' horatio 35 about the guards seeing the ghost

Metaphors Act 3 Scene 1

- 'Good gentlemen, give him a further edge, / And drive his purpose on to these delights.' claudius act 3 scene 1 to rg saying they should encourage hamlet's love for theater - 'How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!' claudius act 3 scene 1 when polonius says we often sugar over our bad deeds by pretending to do good - 'Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them?' Hamlet act 3 scene 1 comparing outrageous fortune to slings and arrows and troubles to a sea - 'To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub,' Hamlet act 3 scene 1 saying that dreaming is, like the rub in a game of bowls is an obstacle to the ball, an obstacle to him - 'For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, / When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, / Must give us pause.' hamlet comparing life or living body to a coil and sleep to death - 'Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sickled o'er with the pale cast of thought' hamlet act 3 scene 1 saying conscience makes everyone a coward and causes the bright color of confidence to pale - 'And enterprises of great pitch and moment, / With this regard their currents turn awry / And lose the name of action.' Hamlet saying plans of great pitch, which is the highest point of a falcon's flight, and they lose their way like a river going awry - 'And with them words of so sweet breath compos'd / As made the things more rich; their perfume lost, / Take these again; for to the noble mind / Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.' - HAMLET. 'You should not have believed me; for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it. I loved you not.' act 3 scene 1 Hamlet making a comparison to grafting a bud or branch to produce better fruit. Virrtue can be grafted onto sinful behavior (our old stock), but the fruit produced will still taste/relish of the original sinfullness - 'Or if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them.' Hamlet act 3 scene 1 saying that Ophelia will make a monster out of any man she marries - 'God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.' Hamlet act 3 scene 1 telling Ophelia that wearing makeup is like replacing the face that God gave you - "The glass of fashion and the mould of form," Ophelia says Hamlet was the mirror/reflection of fashion and the mold of the perfect body - 'And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, / That suck'd the honey of his music vows,' Ophelia saying she is the most depressed woman having listened to and believed his vows - 'That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth / Blasted with ecstasy.' "Blown" means fresh and can refer to a flower, and "blasted" refers to blight to say that the flower of youth has been hit by a blight of madness - "O, woe is me!" Ophelia after saying that Hamlet's mind has been ruined. She is saying she is woe - "There's something in his soul O'er which his melancholy sits on brood, And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose Will be some danger, which for to prevent," Claudius to Polonius saying that whatever is making Hamlet sad will likely be dangerous - "And I'll be plac'd, so please you, in the ear / Of all their conference." Polonius act 3 scene 1 to Claudius saying he'll be in the ear of the meeting b/w Gertrude and Hamlet

Metaphor Act 3 Scene 2

- 'No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, / And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee / Where thrift may follow fawning.' Hamlet act 3 scene 2 - "A man that Fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks. And bles'd are those Whose blood and judgment are so well co-mingled That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee." Hamlet act 3 scene 2 - "If his occulted guilt Do not itself unkennel in one speech, It is a damned ghost that we have seen; And my imaginations are as foul As Vulcan's stithy." Hamlet act 3 scene 2 - "If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing, And scape detecting, I will pay the theft." Horatio - "It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf there." Hamlet act 3 scene 2 is calling Polonius a calf, or a fool - HAMLET. "No, good mother, here's metal more attractive." Hamlet act 3 scene 2. When Gertrude tells Hamlet to sit by her - "Purpose is but the slave to memory, Of violent birth, but poor validity:" Player King saying that our determination starts out strong, but wanes over time - "Let the gall'd jade wince; our withers are unwrung." Hamlet act 3 scene 2 compares a guilty person to a horse (jade) that has been chafed (gall'd). Since Hamlet and the majesty's "withers are unwrung," their backs are unchafed, they shouldn't feel uncomfortable seeing the violence in the play *wink-wink* - HAMLET. "I could interpret between you and your love, if I could see the puppets dallying." When Ophelia says Hamlet is a good chorus, Hamlet says he'd be able to narrate what went on b/w her and her lover and compares them to puppets - "Why, let the strucken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play;" Hamlet is suggested to be making a metaphor where the shot deer is Claudius and the deer that is unshot and gets to play is Hamlet - "For thou dost know, O Damon dear, This realm dismantled was Of Jove himself, and now reigns here A very, very—pajock." Hamlet act 3 scene 2 is making a metaphor comparing Claudius to a peacock. - GUILDENSTERN. "Good my lord, put your discourse into some frame, and start not so wildly from my affair." G act 3 scene 2 is comparing Hamlet wildly moving away from G's questions to a horse who is not being put in his "frame" (stable) and who starts, or jumps wildly - HAMLET. "Make you a wholesome answer. My wit's diseased." Hamlet act 3 scene 2 saying that he can't give Guildenstern a wholesome answer since Hamlet's wits are diseased - "You would play upon me... you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass... 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me." Hamlet telling G that he mistakenly believes H is easier to play than a recorder

Hamlet avenging his dad Act 2

- 'What would he do, / Had he the motive and the cue for passion / That I have?' Hamlet in his soliloquy about the Player, saying that the Player would flood the stage with tears if he had the same motive to act as Hamlet does - '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 T'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 is aware that killing Claudius might not actually avenge his dad, but he has a plan to determine what to do

Act 2 Scene 2: Part 1 - R+G and G+C

- Claudius welcomes R+G, saying the royals both wanted to see RG and need them - He says Hamlet's had a "transformation" of exterior and interior, and the fact that RG grew up with him means that them staying there a little longer and hanging out with him might allow them to figure out if Claudius can help - Gertrude then says Hamlet's talked much of them and that, if they stay there a little longer and help them, they'll be well-compensated - R says they could just order them to do it, and G says they're in full bent to obey

Corruption Act 3

- HAMLET. "Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness." Hamlet act 3 scene 1 saying beauty corrupts honesty to become a manager of prostitutes, but honesty cannot well restrain beauty - 'Or if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them.' Hamlet act 3 scene 1 saying that Ophelia will make a monster out of any man she marries - "Like sweet bells jangled out of tune and harsh, That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy." Ophelia saying that Hamlet's mind has been corrupted by madness - "What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?" Claudius act 3 scene 3 - "In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law." Claudius act 3 scene 3 in his soliloquy saying that the hand of the offender, gilded by the money illegally obtained, often pushes justice aside and ends up getting away with it - 'He took my father grossly, full of bread, With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;' Hamlet act 3 scene 3 saying that Claudius killed KH when KH was "full of bread" which refers to the Bible to say that KH was fully enjoying material things, not holy things - QUEEN. O Hamlet, speak no more. Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul, And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct. - HAMLET. "Nay, but to live In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love Over the nasty sty." Hamlet act 3 scene 4, after Gertrude says he's made her see the stains on her soul, compares her to a prostitute - "Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul That not your trespass, but my madness speaks. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen." Hamlet act 3 scene 4 asks Gertrude not to focus on Hamlet's so-called madness, which would be like putting an ointment on a wound w/o trying to heal the corruption growing and infecting within - "Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come; And do not spread the compost on the weeds, To make them ranker." Hamlet then says the real solution would be for her to repent and improve herself while preventing the problem from getting any worse - "Forgive me this my virtue; For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg, Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good." Hamlet act 3 scene 4 then says, in these morally lax times, Virtue must ask permission from Vice to do good for it

Insanity Act 4

- KING. "I like him not, nor stands it safe with us To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you... The terms of our estate may not endure Hazard so near us as doth hourly grow Out of his brows." Claudius is saying it's unsafe to let Hamlet's "madness" and "brows" (forehead, seemingly referring to his brain) continue to build more danger - QUEEN. "What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murder me? Help, help, ho!" When Hamlet tells Gertrude she won't leave until he shows her what she's really like, she thinks he might do something extreme like kill her, which shows the effect of his supposed lunacy - "Sense sure you have, Else could you not have motion; but sure that sense Is apoplex'd, for madness would not err Nor sense to ecstacy was ne'er so thrall'd But it reserv'd some quantity of choice To serve in such a difference." Hamlet act 3 scene 4 is telling Gertrude her sense must suffer from paralysis since, even in madness, sense retains some choice, and Claudius is a terrible choice - HAMLET. A king of shreds and patches!— Enter Ghost. Save me and hover o'er me with your wings, You heavenly guards! What would your gracious figure? QUEEN. Alas, he's mad. - GERTRUDE "This bodiless creation ecstasy Is very cunning in." Gertrude act 3 scene 4 is saying mental illness is very good at making people see things that aren't there - HAMLET. Ecstasy! My pulse as yours doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd. Bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word; which madness Would gambol from." Hamlet responds by saying he can't be mad since his pulse goes just as steadily as hers and, if she says something, he can repeat it back to her exactly - QUEEN. "To draw apart the body he hath kill'd, O'er whom his very madness, like some ore Among a mineral of metals base, Shows itself pure." Gertrude is saying that, shining out from among his madness is his remorse for what he has done to Polonius - GENTLEMAN. "She is importunate, indeed distract. Her mood will needs be pitied." Gentleman telling Gertrude that Ophelia is a bit crazed and will draw pity - "By heaven, thy madness shall be paid by weight, Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May! Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia! O heavens, is't possible a young maid's wits Should be as mortal as an old man's life?" Laertes is saying that Ophelia's madness will be avenged/paid in weight in full, and he asks rhetorically if a young woman's mind can go out so quickly as an old man's life

Motif of Death essay

- hamlet saying he wishes he could die, melt away - to be or not to be, to sleep - polonius dying, that's the punishment for eavesdropping - unpregnant of my cause - how pregnant his replies are - breeder of sinners, sometimes it would be better had my mother not born me Through the use of stage directions, soliloquys, and shorter spoken statements, Shakespeare's use of the motif of death demonstrates Hamlet's mental instability and the use of the birth motif emphasizes Hamlet's treatment of and effect on those around him. This in turn shows how significantly a death can negatively affect a person and characterizes Hamlet as highly negative, both toward himself and toward others.

Death and Birth essay

- hamlet saying he wishes he could die, melt away - to be or not to be, to sleep - polonius dying, that's the punishment for eavesdropping - unpregnant of my cause - how pregnant his replies are - breeder of sinners, sometimes it would be better had my mother not born me - Purpose is but the slave to memory, Of violent birth, but poor validity: Through the use of stage directions, soliloquys, and shorter spoken statements, Shakespeare's use of the motif of death demonstrates Hamlet's mental instability and the use of the birth motif emphasizes Hamlet's treatment of and effect on those around him. This in turn shows how significantly a death can negatively affect a person and characterizes Hamlet as highly negative, both toward himself and toward others.

Deceit essay

Claudius *hide what he did* - he told denmark it was a snake - it is natural to grieve, but it is reasonable to move on - what a lashing this doth give my conscience *control hamlet* - a will most incorrect to heaven - i need you to spy on hamlet so i can see if i can fix his issue *This shows the work's broader message that even the most secretive murder cannot be perfectly concealed.*

Was King Hamlet an Overbearing Father essay

mark me don't hurt thy mother, let the thorns prick and sting her remember me! you'd be like a fat weed tis meant to whet thy almost blunt purpose Through figurative language, such as personification, simile and metaphor, as well as monologue, Shakespeare displays King Hamlet as a possibly overbearing father to a moderate extent both in what he orders Hamlet to do and his judgments of Hamlet. This in turn shows how a person's perspective can affect how they treat others and additionally characterizes King Hamlet as self-involved.

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Metaphors essay

the clouds still hang on you we shall sift him envenomed him with envy nor the sole of her shoe? - you would play me to the height of my compass you are a sponge Through metaphors used in Claudius' dialogue and soliloquys as well as Hamlet's, Shakespeare illustrates Claudius' progressively more hateful language related to Hamlet and Hamlet's progressively more hateful language toward Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. This in turn shows how quickly a person's positive opinions can change and portrays both Claudius and Hamlet as highly perceptive of others' behavior.

Is Claudius a Hedonist essay

*Behavior directly suggesting pursuit of pleasure* - this reply sits smiling to my heart - tis a tradition better observed in the breach *instances of seriousness* - oh what a lashing this doth give my conscience - very quickly switches to talking about his marriage - i still profit from the benefits - i loved him, but like the owner of a foul disease Through figurative language, such as personification and simile, as well as dialogue and speeches, Shakespeare displays Claudius as a hedonist to a large extent, both through his behavior that suggests his pursuit of pleasure as well as in instances where he attempts to be serious. This in turn shows how one person's values can strongly affect those around them and characterizes Claudius as self-involved.

Faith essay

*Faith in his father* - i will call thee father, king - for conflicted talk about his convo w/ horatio - like meditation i will fly to your revenge - for conflicted talk about his Like John-a-Dreams - there is an angel that knows your plans - for conflicted talk about how he seems passionate about this and yet doesn't fight claudius on his plan to have H be sent to England *Religious faith* - he might be a devil - what revenge that would be, i will wait until he is doing something sinful Through dialogue and soliloquy, Shakespeare illustrates Hamlet's strong faith in his father and how his religious faith causes him to waver from his father's order for Hamlet to kill Claudius. This shows how deeply a person's beliefs can affect how they treat others, and thus characterizes Hamlet as passionate but deeply conflicted.

Ears essay

*Harm done to particular characters* he poured the poison in my ear and so the ear of denmark is rankly abused buzzers feed pestilent lies into his ear *Support of successful information passage* give many thy ear but few thy voice i'll be in the ear of their conference you've heard by "knowing ear" that he tried to kill me Through monologue and metaphor, Shakespeare uses the motif of ears to emphasize harm that is done to particular characters as well as display the support of successful passage of true information by characters. This in turn shows how significantly the people around someone can affect a person as well as characterizing Claudius as clever and malicious and Polonius as confident. - "Let us assail your ears that are so fortified" - Barnardo to Horatio - "If with too credent ear you list his songs" - Laertes to Ophelia - i will not have thee do my ear that violence - "I have words to speak into thine ears to make thee dumb" - Hamlet's letter to Horatio - like daggers enter my ears

Is Hamlet Blinded by Puritanical Values essay

*Targeted Condemning Statements* - incestuous sheets - breeder of sinners - you strut and you lisp - you are a prostitute in a greasy bed *Broad Accusations* - a vicious mole of nature - this custom is bad, it makes us look bad Through accusatory figurative language, such as personification and metaphor, as well as confident dialogue, Shakespeare portrays Hamlet as highly blinded by puritanical values of seeking perfection and purity, both in targeted condemning statements and in broader accusations. This in turn displays how a person's negative behavior and treatment of others can be caused by bias and characterizes Hamlet as highly judgmental and emotional.

Foil Characters essay

*horatio shows how hamlet relies on his instincts at first* the fact that horatio doesn't immediately talk to the ghost, but hamlet does the fact that horatio warns hamlet not to follow the ghost, holds him back *fortinbras accentuates how hamlet largely falls back on reason and thought before action* fortinbras is just going to invade, hamlet thinks about it fortinbras' uncle stops him, claudius isn't aware of what Hamlet is doing

Stereotypical Character essay

*laertes' and polonius' values* - i will keep it in my memory lockd - i shall obey *emphasizes hamlet's damage* - i who sucked all the honey of his vows - let in a maid let out a maid - laertes says she was the perfect model for women - gertrude announcing that she'd died Through devoted metaphors and dialogue, Shakespeare uses Ophelia's stereotypical innocent young girl character in ways that suggest Laertes' and Polonius' values as well as emphasizes the damage that Hamlet causes by killing Polonius. This in turn shows how caring deeply about other people can affect one's mental state and characterizing Laertes, Polonius, and Hamlet as inconsiderate to some degree.

Feminism Act 1 - Polonius and Beyond

- "Affection! Pooh! You speak like a green girl, Unsifted in such perilous circumstance." Polonius to Ophelia act 1 scene 3 saying Ophelia is an experienced girl - 'think yourself a baby; / That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay, / Which are not sterling.' Polonius 47 saying ophelia has been foolish enough to see hamlet's affection as substantive - 'Ay, springes to catch woodcocks.' polonius 47 compares Hamlet's promises are like traps for stupid birds like Ophelia - "these blazes, daughter, / Giving more light than heat, extinct in both, / Even in their promise, as it is a-making, / You must not take for fire." Polonius 47 to Ophelia about the blazes of passion that men have - "Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers, / Not of that dye which their investments show, / But mere implorators of unholy suits, / Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds, / The better to beguile." Polonius 47 to Ophelia, saying that Hamlet's vows are like pimps - "With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,—O wicked wit, and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!—won to his shameful lust The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen." King Hamlet saying that Claudius seduced Gertrude, which gives her less power over herself than Hamlet did in his soliloquy - "But virtue, as it never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven;So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd, Will sate itself in a celestial bed And prey on garbage." KH is comparing Gert to Lust, saying it's in her nature to always pursue - "O most pernicious woman!" Act 2 scene 5 - after the ghost speaks to him, hamlet promises to remember the ghost and curses Gertrude

Insanity Act 3

- "And can you by no drift of circumstance Get from him why he puts on this confusion, Grating so harshly all his days of quiet With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?" Claudius Act 3 scene 1 to R+G - "Like sweet bells jangled out of tune and harsh, That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy." Ophelia saying that Hamlet's mind has been corrupted by madness - 'Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.' Claudius act 3 scene 1 saying that one must pay attention to crazy important people - HAMLET. "They are coming to the play. I must be idle." To Horatio, saying that he must be "idle," which means unoccupied but also means crazy, so he's saying he needs to act crazy now that the people are there - ROSENCRANTZ. "Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? You do surely bar the door upon your own liberty if you deny your griefs to your friend." - HAMLET. They are coming to the play. I must be idle. Get you a place. - HAMLET. Excellent, i' faith; of the chameleon's dish: I eat the air, promise-crammed: you cannot feed capons so.

Feminism (Talk with Gertrude - Act 4)

- "Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there." - "You cannot call it love; for at your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment" - HAMLET. "Nay, but to live In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love Over the nasty sty." Hamlet act 3 scene 4, after Gertrude says he's made her see the stains on her soul, compares her to a prostitute - LAERTES. "That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard; Cries cuckold to my father, brands the harlot Even here between the chaste unsmirched brow Of my true mother." Laertes, in response to Gertrude's plea that he stay calm, says if there was a drop of blood in him that was calm, his mother would have to be branded a prostitute because he is 100% his father's son

Insanity Act 2

- "He rais'd a sigh so piteous and profound / As it did seem to shatter all his bulk" Ophelia, then Polonius says - "This is the very ecstasy of love," act 2 scene 1 'This is the very ecstasy of love,' polonius to ophelia act 2 scene 1 when he hears about hamlet's behavior toward ophelia when hamlet breaks into her room - HAMLET. Let her not walk i' th' sun. Conception is a blessing, but not as your daughter may conceive. Friend, look to't. POLONIUS. How say you by that? [Aside.] 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. - HAMLET. For you yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab you could go backward. POLONIUS. [Aside.] Though this be madness, yet there is a method in't.— Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET. Into my grave? POLONIUS. Indeed, that is out o' the air. [Aside.] How pregnant sometimes his replies are! A happiness that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of. I will leave him and suddenly contrive the means of meeting between him and my daughter. My honourable lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you. - HAMLET. These tedious old fools.

What appears true vs. what is true Act 4

- "Her speech is nothing, Yet the unshaped use of it doth move The hearers to collection" - "And am most sensibly in grief for it, It shall as level to your judgment 'pear As day does to your eye." - KING. "O, for two special reasons, Which may to you, perhaps, seem much unsinew'd, But yet to me they are strong." - KING. "Laertes, was your father dear to you? Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, A face without a heart?"

Feminism - Act 2

- "I am sorry,—What, have you given him any hard words of late?" Polonius act 2 scene 1 to Ophelia. He almost immediately excuses Hamlet's actions as classic lover behavior and then turns it on her as if the problem is something she said - 'This in obedience hath my daughter show'd me;' Polonius about the letters from Hamlet act 2 scene 2 - 'At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him.' Polonius act 2 scene 2 saying he'll release Ophelia onto Hamlet, as if she's an animal, to see whether he really is in love with her - Must, like a w****, unpack my heart with words And fall a-cursing like a very drab, A scullion!

Allusion Act 3 Scene 2

- "If his occulted guilt Do not itself unkennel in one speech, It is a damned ghost that we have seen; And my imaginations are as foul As Vulcan's stithy." Hamlet saying that, if Claudius is proven innocent by this play, Hamlet's imagination is as foul as Vulcan's forge - PLAYER KING. "Full thirty times hath Phoebus' cart gone round Neptune's salt wash and Tellus' orbed ground, And thirty dozen moons with borrow'd sheen About the world have times twelve thirties been, Since love our hearts, and Hymen did our hands Unite commutual in most sacred bands." The King is describing how long ago it was that the God of marriage, Hymen, brought them together. - "With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected," Lucianus saying that the poison he has is truly wicked because it's been cursed by Hecate - "But by'r lady, he must build churches then; or else shall he suffer not thinking on, with the hobby-horse, whose epitaph is 'For, O, for O, the hobby-horse is forgot!'" hamlet act 3 scene 2 references a song discussing how hobby-horses were no longer used at may day festivals

Disease and Decay Act 3

- "If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny." Hamlet act 3 scene 1 to Ophelia saying he'll give her a plague/curse for a wedding present - "That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy." Ophelia act 3 scene 1 is saying Hamlet's mind is a flower destroyed by a blight of madness - "With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected," Lucianus saying that the poison he has is truly wicked because it's been cursed by Hecate - HAMLET. "Make you a wholesome answer. My wit's diseased." Hamlet act 3 scene 2 saying that he can't give Guildenstern a wholesome answer since Hamlet's wits are diseased - "'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world." - "This physic but prolongs thy sickly days." "physic" refers to a sort of medical treatment, so Hamlet is saying Claudius' "purging" of his sins prolongs how long he lives in sickness or sin - "Here is your husband, like a mildew'd ear / Blasting his wholesome brother." Hamlet act 3 scene 4 compares Claudius to a moldy plant blighting his brother, all to Gertrude's face - "Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul That not your trespass, but my madness speaks. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen." Hamlet act 3 scene 4 asks Gertrude not to focus on Hamlet's so-called madness - "Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come; And do not spread the compost on the weeds, To make them ranker." Hamlet then says solution would be to repent and improve herself while preventing the problem from getting any worse

Human Nature Act 4

- "Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service,—two dishes, but to one table." Hamlet act 4 scene 3 saying that Polonius is being eaten by worms, just as all people will one day be eaten by maggots no matter their wealth - HAMLET. "A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. KING. What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET. Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar." Hamlet saying that we essentially end up eating the digested remains of each other, so that a beggar may eat a king - God "gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd." Hamlet act 4 scene 3 saying that God didn't give us such great reason for it to grow moldy within us - "So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt." Gertrude act 4 scene 5 saying that guilty people are so distrustful that, because of their fear of being discovered, they reveal their sins - "Divided from herself and her fair judgment, Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts." Claudius act 4 scene 5 is saying that, without reason, humans are just an image of a human or a beast - "Nature is fine in love, and where 'tis fine, It sends some precious instance of itself After the thing it loves." Laertes act 4 scene 5 is saying that

Hamlet avenging his dad (Talk with Gertrude and also Act 4)

- "Now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on." Hamlet act 3 scene 2. After Polonius tells Hamlet that Gertrude would like to speak to him, Hamlet's rage seems to be growing, and he feels he could do such terrible things that the next day would quake to look on - "I will speak daggers to her, but use none;" Hamlet act 3 scene 2 saying that he will attack Gertrude verbally for what she has done, but he will not kill her - QUEEN. "O Hamlet, speak no more. Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul, And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct." - HAMLET. "Nay, but to live In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love Over the nasty sty." Hamlet act 3 scene 4, after Gertrude says he's made her see the stains on her soul, compares her to a prostitute - GHOST. "Do not forget. This visitation Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose." Hamlet act 3 scene 4 - "Do not look upon me, Lest with this piteous action you convert My stern effects. Then what I have to do Will want true colour; tears perchance for blood." Hamlet act 3 scene 4 telling the ghost not to look at him pitifully or else Hamlet will end up crying instead of pursuing his goal of berating his mom - "How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge." Hamlet act 4 scene 4 saying that everything he sees spurs him to revenge, in the monologue after talking to Captain - "Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means To do't." Hamlet saying he has everything he needs to avenge his dad, and here he sees Fortinbras going off with so little reason - "O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth." Hamlet ending his monologue saying he'll only think of murder now

Human Nature Act 3

- "Read on this book, That show of such an exercise may colour Your loneliness.—We are oft to blame in this, 'Tis too much prov'd, that with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself." Polonius to Ophelia Act 3 scene 1 saying to look like she's reading a religious book so it seems she's alone, since people often put on a show of holy action to cover over sinfullness - "To die—to sleep, / No more; and by a sleep to say we end / The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks / That flesh is heir to" Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1 saying that dying would mean ending the natural shocks that necessarily accompany having a human body - "There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life." Hamlet Act 3 scene 1 is saying that it is only because we don't know what dreams will come when we die that we endure the suffering of living for so long "It shall be so. Madness in great ones must not unwatched go." Claudius at the end of Act 3 scene 1 saying that madness in great people must not go unwatched - "Then there's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year. But by'r lady, he must build churches then; or else shall he suffer not thinking on" Hamlet act 3 scene 2 saying that, since King Hamlet is still remembered after two months, there's hope that dead great men will still be remembered 6 months after, but he must then build churches if he does not want to be forgotten - "Purpose is but the slave to memory, Of violent birth, but poor validity: Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree, But fall unshaken when they mellow be." Player King saying that determination, like an unripe fruit, sticks closely to the tree, but it will fall away when it ripens - "Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament; Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident." Player King saying that our emotions can flip-flop for the slightest reason - "For who not needs shall never lack a friend, And who in want a hollow friend doth try, Directly seasons him his enemy." Player King act 3 scene 2 - "O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom:" Hamlet act 3 scene 2 asking his heart not to lose its nature, and not kill his mother'

What appears true vs. what is true Act 3

Disease and Decay Act 4

- "We would not understand what was most fit, But like the owner of a foul disease, To keep it from divulging, let it feed Even on the pith of life." Claudius act 4 scene 1 telling Gertrude that his love for Hamlet kept him from keeping Hamlet contained - "Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliance are reliev'd, Or not at all." Claudius act 4 scene 3 saying Hamlet's behavior and madness is a disease that must be cured by desperate measures or not at all - "This is th'imposthume of much wealth and peace, That inward breaks, and shows no cause without Why the man dies." Hamlet act 4 scene 4 saying that peace and wealth curse people to have an abscess in them that eventually kills them, like how this tiny piece of land in Poland is having tons of lives and money dumped into it for nothing - "To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is," Gertrude act 4 scene 5 to herself saying that sin is a sickness of the soul - "And wants not buzzers to infect his ear With pestilent speeches of his father's death," Claudius act 4 scene 5 saying that Laertes' ear is infected with rumors about his father's death - "My virtue or my plague, be it either which, She's so conjunctive to my life and soul," Claudius scene 4 act 7 is saying that, whether his attachment to Gertrude is a sickness or a virtue, he loves her enough to second-guess killing Hamlet - "It warms the very sickness in my heart That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, 'Thus diest thou.'" Laertes is saying that it will help treat the sickness within him if he gets to say to Hamlet's face that he basically wrought his fate on himself - "For goodness, growing to a pleurisy, Dies in his own too much." Claudius act 4 scene 7 telling Laertes that goodness will grow like a pleurisy, inflammation of tissues surrounding lungs and chest cavity, and die of its own great size. He says this to stress that even a good thing, like mourning of your father, can eventually die out - "But to the quick o' th'ulcer: Hamlet comes back" Claudius act 4 scene 7 calls Hamlet the quick of the ulcer, the painful part of the sore that needs to be drained to cure the sore - "I'll touch my point With this contagion, that if I gall him slightly, It may be death." Laertes act 4 scene 7 telling Claudius that he'll put the illness of the poison on his sword to kill Hamlet

Corruption Act 4

- "We would not understand what was most fit, But like the owner of a foul disease, To keep it from divulging, let it feed Even on the pith of life." Claudius act 4 scene 1 telling Gertrude that his love for Hamlet kept him from keeping Hamlet contained - "Let in the maid, that out a maid Never departed more." - "O, this is the poison of deep grief; it springs All from her father's death. - "the people muddied, Thick and and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers For good Polonius' death; - "Poor Ophelia Divided from herself and her fair judgment, Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts." - "And wants not buzzers to infect his ear With pestilent speeches of his father's death," Claudius act 4 scene 5 saying that Laertes' ear is infected with rumors about his father's death - "His beard was as white as snow," Ophelia act 4 scene 5 singing that a man, implied to be Polonius, had a beard as white as snow, which is a color associated with purity - "Why to a public count I might not go, Is the great love the general gender bear him, Who, dipping all his faults in their affection, Would like the spring that turneth wood to stone, Convert his gyves to graces;" Claudius act 4 scene 7 - "That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard; Cries cuckold to my father, brands the harlot Even here between the chaste unsmirched brow Of my true mother." - "To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation." - "Under the which he shall not choose but fall; And for his death no wind shall breathe, But even his mother shall uncharge the practice And call it accident." - "No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize;" - "I'll touch my point With this contagion, that if I gall him slightly, It may be death."

Act 1 Scene 3 Laertes-Time Metaphors

- 'A violet in the youth of primy nature, / Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, / The perfume and suppliance of a minute. / No more.' laertes 39 saying that hamlet's attention to her is like a violet; it is beautiful, but it won't last - 'And keep you in the rear of your affection, / Out of the shot and danger of desire.' laertes 41. M.phor to warfare, saying ophelia must be careful to avoid getting hurt in love - 'The canker galls the infants of the spring / Too oft before their buttons be disclosed. / And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, / Contagious blastments are most imminent.' laertes 41 to ophelia. M.phor comparing cankerworms destroying flowers, especially young ones, to what laertes thinks men do - 'Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel' Polonius 43 to laertes 'But do not dull thy palm with entertainment / Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.' - LAERTES. 'Farewell, Ophelia, and remember well / What I have said to you.' OPHELIA. ''Tis in my memory lock'd, / And you yourself shall keep the key of it.' pg. 45 when laertes is leaving and tells ophelia to remember to maintain her honor

Hamlet avenging his dad Act 1

- 'Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.' Ghost 61 saying Hamlet shouldn't kill Gertrude, but let God deal with her and let her live her life knowing what she's done - 'Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat / In this distracted globe.' Hamlet 61 says he'll remember his dad as the ghost tells him to as long as memory remains in his head - 'So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word; / It is 'Adieu, adieu, remember me.' / I have sworn't.' hamlet 63 implying that he will kill Claudius - HAMLET. 'There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark. But he's an arrant knave.' Pg. 65 hamlet to horatio and marcellus, to which horatio says they didn't need a ghost to tell them that - 'It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you.' hamlet 65 to horatio and marcellus - 'The time is out of joint. O cursed spite, / That ever I was born to set it right.' hamlet 69 to horatio and marcellus

Personification Act 2

- 'And I do think,—or else this brain of mine / Hunts not the trail of policy so sure / As it hath us'd to do—that I have found / The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy.' Polonius a2s2 personifies his brain to say that, unless his brain is no longer good at understanding policy, he understands why Hamlet is crazy - "Doubt truth to be a liar, / But never doubt I love" Hamlet's letter emphasizes how truly he loves her by saying she can doubt truth to be a liar but cannot doubt that he loves her - 'If I had... Or given my heart a winking, mute and dumb... / What might you think?' Polonius rhetorically asking what Claudius would have thought if Polonius had shut the eyes of his heart to what was happening between Hamlet and Ophelia - "In the secret parts of Fortune? Oh, most true, she is a strumpet" Hamlet act 2 scene 2 after the back-and-forth of personifying Fortune - 'You were sent for; and there is a kind of confession in your looks, which your modesties have not craft enough to colour.' hamlet to gr act 2 scene 2 saying they are not able to hide the fact that they were sent for - 'Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls, Repugnant to command.' Saying Priam's sword disobeyed him - 'Then senseless Ilium, Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top Stoops to his base, and with a hideous crash Takes prisoner Pyrrhus' ear.' - 'But as we often see against some storm, A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still, The bold winds speechless, and the orb below As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder Doth rend the region' In First Player's monologue - "For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak / With most miraculous organ." Hamlet in his Act 2 Scene 2 soliloquy saying that, though murder doesn't have a tongue, it will reveal itself miraculously (saying a cunning scene in a play could make someone confess)

Insanity Act 1

- 'And there assume some other horrible form / Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason, / And draw you into madness? Think of it.' - "How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself,— As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on—" Hamlet to Horatio and Marcellus saying that he will pretend to be crazy but they must pretend like they don't know what he's doing

Important Similes Act 1 Scene 1-3

- 'As thou art to thyself' horatio pg. 13 saying how similar the ghost looks to the king - "For it is as the air, invulnerable, / And our vain blows malicious mockery." marcellus pg. 17 when discussing the ghost - 'And then it started, like a guilty thing / Upon a fearful summons.' horatio pg. 17 talking about the ghost in response to Marcellus' "air" comment - 'The head is not more native to the heart, / The hand more instrumental to the mouth, / Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.' 23 claudius to laertes, saying Polonius is naturally connected and instrumental to the royals - 'You are the most immediate to our throne, / And with no less nobility of love / Than that which dearest father bears his son / Do I impart toward you' claudius 27 says to lil hamlet that claudius loves lil hamlet - 'Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, / That he might not beteem the winds of heaven...' hamlet 29 - 'Like Niobe, all tears.—Why she, even she— / O God! A beast that wants discourse of reason / Would have mourn'd longer,—married with mine uncle, / My father's brother; but no more like my father / Than I to Hercules.' 31 - 'Do not as some ungracious pastors do, / Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; / Whilst like a puff'd and reckless libertine / Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, / And recks not his own rede.' Ophelia 43 to Laertes

Disease and Decay Act 2

- 'For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a good kissing carrion,— Have you a daughter?' Hamlet to Polonius act 2 scene 2. He turns to discussing maggots eating a dog as part of his acting crazy - 'For the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey 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 act 2 scene 2 saying old men decay in several ways - 'this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.' hamlet to rg saying that the sky has seemed like a diseased group of vapors, suggesting he's become tired of the world

Simile / Comparison Act 3

- 'For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither, / That he, as 'twere by accident, may here / Affront Ophelia.' Claudius to Gertrude act 3 scene 1 - 'The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art, / Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it / Than is my deed to my most painted word.' claudius act 3 scene 1 when polonius says we often sugar over our bad deeds by pretending to do good - "If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny." Hamlet act 3 scene 1 to Ophelia saying he'll give her a plague/curse for a wedding present - "Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, / Like sweet bells jangled out of tune and harsh," Ophelia is saying Hamlet's reason has started to become out of tune and harsh - "If his occulted guilt Do not itself unkennel in one speech, It is a damned ghost that we have seen; And my imaginations are as foul As Vulcan's stithy." Hamlet saying that, if Claudius is proven innocent by this play, Hamlet's imagination is as foul as Vulcan's forge - "Purpose is but the slave to memory, Of violent birth, but poor validity: Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree, But fall unshaken when they mellow be." Player King saying that determination, like an unripe fruit, sticks closely to the tree, but it will fall away when it ripens - "To withdraw with you, why do you go about to recover the wind of me, as if you would drive me into a toil?" Hamlet act 3 scene 2 asking why RG surround him as if to ambush him - HAMLET. "'Tis as easy as lying: govern these ventages with your finger and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music." Telling Guildenstern how to play a pipe

Allusion Act 2-3 Scene 1

- 'Happy in that we are not over-happy. On Fortune's cap we are not the very button' Guildenstern alludes to the Roman goddess Fortune - "And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?" Hamlet makes a reference to Genesis 3:19's *For dust you are, and to dust you shall return* when speaking of humans us merely dust and no (wo)man delights him - "My lord, I have news to tell you: when Roscius was an actor in Rome" Hamlet to Polonius act 2 scene 2 when Hamlet thinks Polonius is going to say the players have arrived, Hamlet interrupts and starts a story saying there was an actor - "Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light" Polonius act 2 scene 2 discussing how skilled the actors are - 'oh Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou!' Hamlet switches subject by calling Polonius Jephthah, a man who sacrificed his daughter to God - 'twas Aeneas' tale to Dido, and thereabout of it especially when he speaks of Priam's slaughter' Hamlet discussing the speech he especially likes - 'And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall On Mars's armour, forg'd for proof eterne, With less remorse than Pyrrhus' bleeding sword Now falls on Priam.' First Player reciting the monologue - 'Nymph, in thy orisons / Be all my sins remember'd.' when Ophelia is approaching Hamlet in act 3 scene 1 after his long soliloquy, he calls her a nymph

Hamlet w/ Ophelia

- '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.' act 2 scene 1 - HAMLET. 'That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.' OPHELIA. 'Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?' HAMLET. 'Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness.' Hamlet and Ophelia discussing whether beauty and honesty/chastity should associate with each other. Hamlet says they shouldn't, Ophelia says beauty naturally deals with chastity, and Hamlet misconstrues her to take it as if she is saying "deal" like a trade. - HAMLET. 'Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me.' Hamlet tells Ophelia to become a nun so she doesn't have any sinful children, and then he admits he himself is sinful - HAMLET. 'I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. You jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nickname God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't, it hath made me mad. I say, we will have no more marriages. Those that are married already, all but one, shall live;' Hamlet appears to be speaking to women in general or maybe his mother, and then suggests he will kill Claudius - HAMLET. "No, good mother, here's metal more attractive." Hamlet act 3 scene 2. When Gertrude tells Hamlet to sit by her, he rejects her saying Ophelia is "metal more attractive," which objectifies her - HAMLET. "I could interpret between you and your love, if I could see the puppets dallying." When Ophelia says Hamlet is a good chorus, Hamlet says he'd be able to narrate what went on b/w her and her lover and compares them to puppets

Simile Act 1 Scene 4-5

- 'His virtues else,—be they as pure as grace, / As infinite as man may undergo, / Shall in the general censure take corruption / From that particular fault.' Hamlet act 1 scene 4 about how one bad trait can corrupt a man - "My fate cries out, / And makes each petty artery in this body / As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve." Hamlet 55 when Horatio and Marcellus try to stop him from following the Ghost - "Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined locks to part, / And each particular hair to stand on end / Like quills upon the fretful porcupine." Ghost 57 saying he could tell Hamlet things that would absolutely terrify him - "Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift / As meditation or the thoughts of love / May sweep to my revenge." Hamlet telling the ghost to tell him how the ghost was murdered so Hamlet may jump to revenge - 'And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed / That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf, / Wouldst thou not stir in this.' Ghost 59 saying Hamlet would be more useless than the weeds in the river of forgetfulness if he doesn't do something to avenge his dad - 'That swift as quicksilver it courses through / The natural gates and alleys of the body; And with a sudden vigour it doth posset / And curd, like eager droppings into milk, / The thin and wholesome blood.' Ghost 61 saying how the poison put in his ear affects the blood

Personification Act 3 Scene 1

- 'How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!' claudius act 3 scene 1 when polonius says we often sugar over our bad deeds by pretending to do good - 'by a sleep to say we end / The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks / That flesh is heir to' hamlet act 3 scene 1 saying that flesh is an heir to the thousand natural shocks - 'Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sickled o'er with the pale cast of thought' hamlet act 3 scene 1 saying conscience makes everyone a coward and causes the bright color of confidence to pale - HAMLET. That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty. OPHELIA. Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?' act 3 scene 1 - HAMLET. "Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness." - 'with more offenses at my beck / than I have / thoughts to put them in' Hamlet act 3 scene 1 saying he has more sins at his beck and call than he has ability to use - 'Oh, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!' Ophelia act 3 scene 1 to herself saying that Hamlet's great mind has been overthrown

Hamlet avenging his dad Act 3 until Hamlet is going to his mom

- 'I say, we will have no more marriages. Those that are married already, all but one, shall live;' Hamlet act 3 scene 1, implying that he will kill Claudius - "If his occulted guilt Do not itself unkennel in one speech, It is a damned ghost that we have seen; And my imaginations are as foul As Vulcan's stithy." Hamlet saying that, if Claudius is proven innocent by this play, Hamlet's imagination is as foul as Vulcan's forge - "Purpose is but the slave to memory, Of violent birth, but poor validity:" Player King saying that our determination is a slave to our memory. It starts out strong, but wanes over time - "With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected," Lucianus saying that the poison he has is truly wicked because it's been cursed by Hecate - "Let the gall'd jade wince; our withers are unwrung." Hamlet act 3 scene 2 compares a guilty person to a horse (jade) that has been chafed (gall'd). Since Hamlet and the majesty's "withers are unwrung," their backs are unchafed, they shouldn't feel uncomfortable seeing the violence in the play *wink-wink*

Disease and Decay Act 1

- 'In what particular thought to work I know not; / But in the gross and scope of my opinion, / This bodes some strange eruption to our state.' Horatio after he sees the king - 'the moist star, / Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands, / Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.' Horatio 15, explaining how Rome went into a sort of apocalypse when their dead started returning - 'Fie on 't, ah fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden / That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely.' hamlet 29 - 'A violet in the youth of primy nature, / Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, / The perfume and suppliance of a minute. / No more.' laertes 39 saying that hamlet's attention to her is like a violet; it is beautiful, but it won't last - 'The canker galls the infants of the spring / Too oft before their buttons be disclosed. / And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, / Contagious blastments are most imminent.' laertes 41 to ophelia. M.phor comparing cankerworms destroying flowers, especially young ones, to what laertes thinks men do - 'That swift as quicksilver it courses through / The natural gates and alleys of the body; And with a sudden vigour it doth posset / And curd, like eager droppings into milk, / The thin and wholesome blood.' Ghost 61 saying how the poison put in his ear affects the blood - "And a most instant tetter bark'd about, / Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust / All my smooth body." ghost act 1 scene 5 saying the poison caused him to develop a condition like leprosy similar to Lazarus

Feminism Act 1 - Up Through Laertes

- 'Let me not think on't—Frailty, thy name is woman!' hamlet 29 saying women are frail, especially his mother - 'A violet in the youth of primy nature, / Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, / The perfume and suppliance of a minute. / No more.' laertes 39 saying that hamlet's attention to her is like a violet; it is beautiful, but it won't last - 'And keep you in the rear of your affection, / Out of the shot and danger of desire.' laertes 41. M.phor to warfare, saying ophelia must be careful to avoid getting hurt in love - 'The canker galls the infants of the spring / Too oft before their buttons be disclosed. / And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, / Contagious blastments are most imminent.' laertes 41 to ophelia. M.phor comparing cankerworms destroying flowers, especially young ones, to what laertes thinks men do - 'Do not as some ungracious pastors do, / Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; / Whilst like a puff'd and reckless libertine / Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, / And recks not his own rede.' Ophelia 43 to Laertes - LAERTES. 'Farewell, Ophelia, and remember well / What I have said to you.' OPHELIA. ''Tis in my memory lock'd, / And you yourself shall keep the key of it.' pg. 45 when laertes is leaving and tells ophelia to remember to maintain her honor

Personification Act 1 Scene 3-5

- 'Occasion smiles upon a second leave' (43) Laertes - "When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul / Lends the tongue vows:" (47) Polonius to Ophelia - "why the sepulchre, / Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd, / Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws" (51) Hamlet to Ghost, asking why he has risen from the dead - "'Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, / A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark / Is by a forged process of my death / Rankly abus'd;" Ghost 59 saying that Denmark itself is fed a false story - "But virtue, as it never will be mov'd, / Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven; / So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd, / Will sate itself in a celestial bed / And prey on garbage." Ghost act 1 scene 5 saying that Virtue, even if tempted, will stay true to its nature just like lust, even if loved in a holy way, will continue to sinfully desire - 'Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat / In this distracted globe.' Hamlet 61 says he'll remember his dad as the ghost tells him to as long as memory remains in his head

Simile Act 2

- 'Pale as his shirt... as if he had been loosed out of hell' ophelia act 2 scene 1 describing Hamlet when he walks into her room - 'For you yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab you could go backward.' hamlet to polonius act 2 scene 2 saying that Polonius would be as old as Hamlet if he could walk backward - 'we'll e'en to 't like French falconers, fly at anything we see' Hamlet act 2 scene 2 to the players - 'The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms, Black as his purpose, did the night resemble' Hamlet act 2 scene 2 reciting the monologue from the fictitious play about the Trojan War - 'With eyes like carbuncles' Hamlet act 2 scene 2 reciting the monologue from the fictitious play about the Trojan War, saying Pyrrhus had glowing red eyes - 'So, as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood, And like a neutral to his will and matter, Did nothing.' - 'But as we often see against some storm, A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still, The bold winds speechless, and the orb below As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder Doth rend the region' - 'Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak Like John-a-dreams' - 'Must, like a w****, unpack my heart with words / And fall a-cursing like a very drab, / A scullion!'

Personification Act 3 Scene 2

- 'Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice, And could of men distinguish, her election Hath seal'd thee for herself.' Hamlet act 3 scene 2 saying that, ever since his soul was old enough to distinguish men, she's singled Horatio out as an exceptional person since he always stays calm - "Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament; Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident." Player King saying that our emotions can flip-flop for the slightest reason - PLAYER QUEEN. "Nor earth to me give food, nor heaven light, Sport and repose lock from me day and night" Player Queen telling Earth, Heaven, strife, etc. to ruin her existence if she ever remarries after the king is dead - HAMLET. "Make you a wholesome answer. My wit's diseased." Hamlet act 3 scene 2 saying that he can't give Guildenstern a wholesome answer since Hamlet's wits are diseased - ROSENCRANTZ. 'Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? You do surely bar the door upon your own liberty if you deny your griefs to your friend.'

Feminism Act 3 Scene 1

- 'The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art, / Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it / Than is my deed to my most painted word.' claudius act 3 scene 1 when polonius says we often sugar over our bad deeds by pretending to do good, but he compares the ugliness of his deeds to the actual face of a prostitute wearing makeup - HAMLET. "Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness." Hamlet saying beauty changes honesty to a manager of prostitutes, but honesty cannot well restrain beauty - HAMLET "...for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it." Hamlet act 3 scene 3 saying that you cannot cover up sin with virtuous actions because you will still taste the sin - "What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us." Hamlet act 3 scene 1 suggests there are many men just as unvirtuous as him - "I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. You jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nickname God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance." Hamlet uses the formal "you" here, which suggests he might be talking more generally to all women or his mother when he says "you" replace the face God gave you with makeup, strut, lisp, nickname God's creatures, and pretend like you're dumb to get away with it

Human Nature Act 2

- 'This is the very ecstasy of love, / Whose violent property fordoes itself, / And leads the will to desperate undertakings, / As oft as any passion under heaven / That does afflict our natures.' polonius to ophelia act 2 scene 1 after hearing about hamlet breaking into her room - "It seems it is as proper to our age / To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions / As it is common for the younger sort / To lack discretion." Polonius to Ophelia in Act 2 scene 1 - 'Ay sir, to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.' hamlet to polonius - 'Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs and outstretch'd heroes the beggars' shadows.' hamlet scene 2 act 2 to gr saying, if r is right about ambitions being a shadow of a dream, then beggars w/o ambitions are made of physical substance and the leaders and heroes with great ambitions are just outstretched shadows of beggars - '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? Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.' - 'and those that would make mouths at him while my father lived, give twenty, forty, fifty, a hundred ducats apiece for his picture in little. 'Sblood, there is something in this more than natural, if philosophy could find it out.' - HAMLET. "God's bodikin, man, better. Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?" Hamlet act 2 scene 2 saying to Polonius that, if everyone got what they deserved, we'd all be punished

Hamlet w/ Gertrude

- 'Thou know'st 'tis common, all that lives must die, / Passing through nature to eternity.' gertrude pg. 25 to hamlet, to which he says 'ay, madam, it is common' - QUEEN. If it be, Why seems it so particular with thee? HAMLET. Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not seems. - QUEEN. Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet. I pray thee stay with us; go not to Wittenberg. HAMLET. I shall in all my best obey you, madam." Hamlet doesn't seem very enthusiastic - HAMLET. "No, good mother, here's metal more attractive." Hamlet act 3 scene 2. When Gertrude tells Hamlet to sit by her, he rejects her saying Ophelia is "metal more attractive," which objectifies her - HAMLET. Madam, how like you this play? QUEEN. The lady protests too much, methinks. HAMLET. O, but she'll keep her word. - "You are the Queen, your husband's brother's wife, And, would it were not so. You are my mother." - "And let me wring your heart, for so I shall, If it be made of penetrable stuff; If damned custom have not braz'd it so, That it is proof and bulwark against sense." - "You cannot call it love; for at your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment" - HAMLET. "Nay, but to live In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love Over the nasty sty." Hamlet act 3 scene 4, after Gertrude says he's made her see the stains on her soul, compares her to a prostitute

Important Dialogue Act 1

- 'When yond same star that's westward from the pole had made his course t' illume that part of heaven' - Barnardo pg. 9 when explaining when they saw the ghost, but then marcellus breaks him off by saying 'peace, break thee off!' - 'KING. How is it that the clouds still hang on you?' HAMLET. 'Not so, my lord, I am too much i' the sun.' pg. 25 Hamlet and Claudius clearly have differing opinions - 'Thou know'st 'tis common, all that lives must die, / Passing through nature to eternity.' gertrude pg. 25 to hamlet, to which he says 'ay, madam, it is common' - Conversation between Laertes and Ophelia - Polonius and Ophelia - 49-51, -55. Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus talk about how the drinking is a tradition, Hamlet says it makes Denmark look bad like one bad attribute can make a man look bad, and then whether or not Hamlet should follow the ghost - 55-61. 63-69. Conversation between Hamlet and the Ghost - Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus at the end. Hamlet tells them that Claudius is an arrant knave, and horatio says they already knew that, and that it was an honest ghost. He has them swear not to talk about what happened

Human Nature Act 1

- 'Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature / That we with wisest sorrow think on him, / Together with remembrance of ourselves.' - Claudius 21 saying that, though it is natural to grieve, it is reasonable to think about and take care of yourself - 'Thou know'st 'tis common, all that lives must die, / Passing through nature to eternity.' gertrude pg. 25 to hamlet, to which he says 'ay, madam, it is common' - 'But you must know, your father lost a father, / That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound / In filial obligation, for some term / To do obsequious sorrow.' claudius 27 to hamlet to say that, though hamlet is commendably sad about his father, it's important to move on - "For nature crescent does not grow alone In thews and bulk; but as this temple waxes,The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal." Laertes saying that a growing human is going to have their mind also grow - 'I do know, When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul Lends the tongue vows' Polonius saying he knows how, when lusting, the soul lends the tongue promises - 'As in their birth, wherein they are not guilty, / Since nature cannot choose his origin, / By their o'ergrowth of some complexion, / Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason;' Hamlet saying that human nature cannot choose to be expressed

What appears true vs. what is true Act 2

- 'Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth;' polonius act 2 scene 1 saying to reynaldo - "No, my good lord; but as you did command, I did repel his letters and denied His access to me." Ophelia is being forced to seem disinterested in Hamlet - "That hath made him mad. / I am sorry that with better heed and judgment / I had not quoted him. I fear'd he did but trifle, / And meant to wreck thee." Polonius after hearing about Hamlet going into Ophelia's room. - POLONIUS. '[Aside.] 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.' - HAMLET. 'Why, then 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison.' act 2 scene 2 to rosencrantz, and guildenstern - HAMLET. Why, anything. But to the purpose. You were sent for; and there is a kind of confession in your looks, which your modesties have not craft enough to colour. I know the good King and Queen have sent for you.

Metaphors Act 2 Non-Hamlet-Time

- 'Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth;' polonius act 2 scene 1 saying to reynaldo that baiting people by saying bad things about laertes will lead to people saying what he is actually like - 'But we both obey, / And here give up ourselves, in the full bent, / To lay our service freely at your feet / To be commanded.' Guildenstern in act 2 scene 2 saying to the kingandqueen that R+G are committed to obeying them when they ask the 2 to spy on Hamlet - "My news shall be the fruit to that great feast." Polonius act 2 scene 2 saying that his explanation of why Hamlet is crazy will be like a dessert in addition to the news from the ambassadors (the cherry on top or the icing on the cake so to speak) - "Well, we shall sift him." Claudius to Gertrude act 2 scene 2, saying that they will examine and investigate Hamlet to determine what makes him crazy as if using a sifter - 'If I had play'd the desk or table-book... What might you think?' polonius act 2 scene 2 asking what Claudius would think if Polonius had kept quiet on Hamlet and Ophelia's relations, as if keeping it in a writing desk - 'At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him.' Polonius act 2 scene 2 saying he'll release Ophelia onto Hamlet, as if she's an animal, to see whether he really is in love with her

Allusion Act 1

- 'the moist star, / Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands, / Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.' Horatio 15, explaining how Rome went into a sort of apocalypse when their dead started returning - 'Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, / That he might not beteem the winds of heaven...' hamlet 29 - 'Like Niobe, all tears.—Why she, even she— / O God! A beast that wants discourse of reason / Would have mourn'd longer,—married with mine uncle, / My father's brother; but no more like my father / Than I to Hercules.' 31 - 'And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed / That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf, / Wouldst thou not stir in this.' Ghost 59 saying Hamlet would be more useless than the weeds in the river of forgetfulness if he doesn't do something to avenge his dad - "And a most instant tetter bark'd about, / Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust / All my smooth body."

Act 1 Scene 3 Polonius-Time Metaphors

- 'think yourself a baby; / That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay, / Which are not sterling.' Polonius 47 saying ophelia has been foolish enough to see hamlet's affection as substantive - 'Or,—not to crack the wind of the poor phrase, / [Running] it thus,—you'll tender me a fool.' polonius 47 saying they've used the word 'tender' so much it's like whipping a horse to keep running - 'Ay, springes to catch woodcocks.' polonius 47 compares Hamlet's promises are like traps for stupid birds like Ophelia - "these blazes, daughter, / Giving more light than heat, extinct in both, / Even in their promise, as it is a-making, / You must not take for fire." Polonius 47 to Ophelia about the blazes of passion that men have - "Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers, / Not of that dye which their investments show, / But mere implorators of unholy suits, / Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds, / The better to beguile." Polonius 47 to Ophelia, saying that Hamlet's vows are like pimps

Important Dialogue Act 3

- *Act 3 scene 1*: RG and Gertrude and Claudius. Claudius asks if RG have found why Hamlet is crazy. R says Hamlet is distracted and G says he dodges questions. R says he seemed polite, but G says it was forced. R says he asked no questions, but answered all, and seemed interested in players. Polonius adds Hamlet asked GC to watch. C tells RG to encourage Hamlet's theater interest - *Act 3 scene 1*: Hamlet with Ophelia. Ophelia asks how he's been the past days, and says she's returning presents he gave her since he's become mean. Hamlet asks if she's honest and fair and says they cannot associate. Ophelia says beauty is best associated with chastity, and Hamlet says it's true because beauty corrupts chastity but chastity can't restrain beauty. He mentions pious behavior can be inoculated onto sin, but the fruit still tastes of sin. Later, tells her to go to a nunnery so she isn't a breeder of sinners and that Hamlet is a sinner. He later tells her that, if she marries, he'll give her a plague for her dowry and that she should marry a fool since wise men know she'd make them monsters. Ophelia calls for the heavens to restore him, and Hamlet says makeup is disrespectful to God and that "you" act sinfully and pass it off as ignorance. All married couples will live but one - *Act 3 scene 1*: Polonius and Claudius. Claudius says it doesn't seem like Hamlet is in love or mad, so he should be sent to England to get rid of whatever dangerous thing is brewing in his head. Polonius says they should first have Hamlet talk to Gertrude w/ Polonius listening. Claudius says okay and says crazy important people must be watched

Important Speeches Act 2

- Act 2 Scene 2 Claudius' speech to welcome RG saying that he is both happy to see them and in need of them. Hamlet has undergone a "transformation" and, since Hamlet and RG have known each other since childhood, they might be able to find what's wrong so Claudius can see if it's something he can fix. - Act 2 Scene 2: Polonius' Speech explaining that he didn't idle when he heard about Ophelia's relationship, he told Ophelia that Hamlet was out of her sphere and told her to reject all of his letters and tokens, which has driven Hamlet mad - Voltemand's speech explaining King Norway's asking for allowance for Fortinbras to go through Denmark Act 2 Scene 2 - Hamlet explaining why RG were sent to spy on him, saying he sees the world as a sterile promontory and the sky just a noxious group of vapors. He sees humans as comparable to angels and gods in some ways and says they are the apex animal, and yet they are just dust, and neither man or woman delights him - Act 2 Scene 2 Hamlet reciting a speech from a play about the destruction of Troy. Pyrrhus, his armor appearing thicker because of all the baked blood on it and with glowing red eyes "like carbuncles" is moving through Troy looking for Priam - First Player continuing the speech saying that Priam's sword seems to disobey him and that Pyrrhus knocked him over with the wind of his sword. He was set to strike, but was startled by the collapse of some building, so he looked like a painted dictator. Then, he killed without remorse. Hecuba, now in rags, sees this happen and the noises she makes would have made the God cry if they witnessed them - Hamlet's soliloquy Act 2 scene 2 saying he is a "rogue and peasant slave" and that the player had so much emotion over Hecuba, someone he doesn't even know, and exclaims how, if he had the same motive as Hamlet, he would drown the stage with tears. He goes on to say he's like "John-a-Dreams" and like a prostitute or a kitchen-maid. He then says that guilty creatures at particularly cunning plays have been moved to confess their crimes

Important Dialogue Act 2

- Act 2 scene 1: Polonius and Reynaldo's discussion has Polonius saying Reynaldo should spy into Laertes' behavior in France and determine whether he's developed any bad habits by saying false things about Laertes to the Danish people in France and seeing what they say - Act 2 scene 1: Polonius and Ophelia discuss an encounter Ophelia had with Hamlet when he came into her private room all disheveled, grabbed her arm, stared at her, then walked away - Act 2 scene 2: King and Queen w/ RG. King saying that they are glad to see RG and that they need them. If they stay a little longer, since they've grown up with Hamlet, they could determine what's wrong. Queen says Hamlet always talk of them and, if they agree, they'll get due compensation. R says they could order them, G says they are in "full bent" - Act 2 scene 2: King and Queen w/ Polonius. P announces the ambassadors are back, and says he knows why H's been crazy. Q says it's probably the obvious, C says "well, we'll sift him." Q says "more matter with less art." Letters are read and they discuss that they'll set up a meeting b/w O and H - Act 2 scene 2: Hamlet w/ Polonius. H says he's a fishmonger, talks about maggots in a dog and then asks if P has a daughter. P asks what H is reading, words words words, i meant the matter that you read, slander. will you walk out of the air, into my grave?. I will take my leave of you, there's nothing I would part with more quickly (except my life), these tedious old fools - Act 2 scene 2: Hamlet w/ RG. Discussion of Fortune, Denmark's a prison, tis your ambition, we'll wait upon you, man delights not me and Lenten entertainment, i am mad north-north-west - Act 2 scene 2: Hamlet w/ Polonius #2. Polonius says he has news, Hamlet interrupts and says "When Roscius was an actor in Rome..." Polonius announces actors, Hamlet "buzz buzz". Polonius discusses the actors' skill, Hamlet calls Polonius Jephthah. Later, when Polonius says it's too long, Hamlet says he should go to a barber. Later, Polonius says 1st Player should stop since he's crying and pale, Hamlet says they should be well-used, Polonius says he uses them according to their desert, and Hamlet says getting what we deserve would be punishment - Act 2 scene 2: Hamlet w/ Players. Hamlet says they're welcome and says one of the actors is bearded and says he hopes he won't beard him in Denmark. He addresses the actor playing a woman, hopes his voice isn't cracked in ring. Hamlet says they're like French falconers, and asks for speech. 1st Player asks what speech, Hamlet discusses a speech he heard him recite

Hamlet Act 1 Scene 1

- Barnardo replaces Francisco. - Horatio and Marcellus come out and see the ghost of King Hamlet. - The ghost comes. Marcellus tells Horatio to speak to it since he is a scholar. Horatio, after some discussion of how much it looks like the king, asks the ghost what it is and tells it to speak, but then leaves - Barnardo asks if it does not seem more than fantasy, and Horatio says he would not believe it w/o the avouch of his own eyes - M asks if it does not seem like the king. as thy art to thyself. I'm not sure, but this seems this means some eruption to their state - When Marcellus asks, Horatio explains the political backstory for the king, shipbuilding, and increased watch (old fortinbras vs old hamlet, now young fortinbras wants to attack) - Horatio then talks about how, in Rome, apocalyptic events happened when the sheeted dead rose, such as the moon being "sick almost to doomsday with eclipse" and stars of trails of fire and dews of blood appeared - the ghost appears again, Horatio tells it to inform them of what it wants - Ghost disappears when the rooster crows just before it looked like it would speak to Horatio, Marcellus says it was useless trying to strike it, and Horatio explains it by saying the rooster crowing signals the god of day to come - Upon Horatio's suggestion, Barnardo, Horatio, and Marcellus agree to tell Hamlet about the ghost. Horatio thinks that the ghost will probably speak to him

Act 1 Scene 2 Before Hamlet's Soliloquy

- Claudius gives speech detailing that it is natural and right to grieve the death of King Hamlet, but that it is rational to think of themselves as well - Talks about "mirth" of marriage that he says the people of the court have approved of. Next, he discusses his plan to address the rumor that young Fortinbras will attack w/o the knowledge of his "impotent" uncle b/c he thinks Denmark is weakened - He sends Voltemand and Cornelius to Norway with a pre-written letter - Laertes asks if he may be pardoned to go back to France, but Claudius asks if Polonius is okay with that. Polonius says Laertes wrung it out of him and now Polonius begs Claudius to allow Laertes to leave - Conversation then turns to "my cousin Hamlet, and my son" to which Hamlet says "a little more than kin and less than kind" - Claudius asks why Hamlet is still shadowed by clouds, Gertrude says death is common and that the death of his father seems "particular" with Hamlet - Claudius then says it's commendable for Hamlet to grieve his father, but stubborn grief is unmanly, shows a will "incorrect to heaven," and shows unfortified heart and impatient mind - Claudius then says he sees Hamlet like a son and both C and Gertrude ask that Hamlet not go to Wittenberg - When Hamlet says he'll do his best to obey, Claudius says it's a loving and fair reply and that whenever they drink that night, the cannons will be fired in celebration - Everyone leaves except Hamlet

Metaphors Act 2 Hamlet-Time

Hamlet w/ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Act 1-3

- GUILDENSTERN 'Happy in that we are not over-happy. / On Fortune's cap, we are not the very button' HAMLET 'Nor the soles of her shoe?' Guildenstern and Hamlet are comparing themselves to pieces of clothing on Fortune act 2 scene 1 - HAMLET. 'Denmark's a prison.' Hamlet act 2 scene 2 telling Guildenstern that Denmark is a prison, to which R says 'then is the world one' - 'Oh, 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 telling gr that bad dreams are the only thing stopping him from theoretically seeing himself as king of the world if bounded in a nutshell, to which g says 'the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream' - '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? Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.' act 2 scene 2 - "To withdraw with you, why do you go about to recover the wind of me, as if you would drive me into a toil?" Hamlet act 3 scene 2 asking why RG surround him as if to ambush him - HAMLET. "'Tis as easy as lying: govern these ventages with your finger and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music." Telling Guildenstern how to play a pipe - HAMLET. "'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me." Hamlet act 3 scene 2 saying that G thinks Hamlet is easier to use than a pipe, but he is wrong.

Feminism Act 3 Scene 2

- HAMLET. "No, good mother, here's metal more attractive." Hamlet act 3 scene 2. When Gertrude tells Hamlet to sit by her, he rejects her saying Ophelia is "metal more attractive," which objectifies her - OPHELIA. I think nothing, my lord. HAMLET. That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. - HAMLET. O God, your only jig-maker! What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours. - OPHELIA 'Tis brief, my lord. HAMLET As woman's love." act 3 scene 2 - "For women's fear and love holds quantity, In neither aught, or in extremity." Player Queen act 3 scene 2 saying that women's fear and love comes in two intensities: insignificant and extreme - "In second husband let me be accurst! None wed the second but who kill'd the first." Player Queen act 3 scene 2 saying the only women widows that marry again are those that killed their first husband - HAMLET. "I could interpret between you and your love, if I could see the puppets dallying." When Ophelia says Hamlet is a good chorus, Hamlet says he'd be able to narrate what went on b/w her and her lover and compares them to puppets

Hamlet w/ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Act 4

- HAMLET. "That I can keep your counsel, and not mine own. Besides, to be demanded of a sponge—what replication should be made by the son of a king?" ROSENCRANTZ. "Take you me for a sponge, my lord?" - ROSENCRANTZ. "I understand you not, my lord." HAMLET. "I am glad of it. A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear."

Hamlet w/ Horatio

- HAMLET. I would not hear your enemy say so; Nor shall you do my ear that violence, - HAMLET. I prithee do not mock me, fellow-student. I think it was to see my mother's wedding. HORATIO. Indeed, my lord, it follow'd hard upon. - "My fate cries out, / And makes each petty artery in this body / As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve." Hamlet 55 when Horatio and Marcellus try to stop him from following the Ghost - HORATIO. Good my lord, tell it. HAMLET. No, you'll reveal it." Hamlet, in this moment, trusts Horatio a lot less - 'No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, / And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee / Where thrift may follow fawning.' Hamlet act 3 scene 2 saying to Horatio to reserve sweet-talking for talking to rich people and fawn over people who have something to give - "A man that Fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks. And bles'd are those Whose blood and judgment are so well co-mingled That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee." Hamlet act 3 scene 2 saying, through five metaphors I think, that Horatio takes the good and the bad equally, has reason intermingled with emotion so that Fortune doesn't play him as it chooses. Anyone who is not Fortune's slave will be in Hamlet's heart as Horatio is. - "If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing, And scape detecting, I will pay the theft." Horatio is comparing Claudius getting away with something with someone getting away with robbery, saying he'll pay for whatever is stolen if he doesn't catch any bad thing Claudius might do - "Why, let the strucken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play;" Hamlet is suggested to be making a m.phor where the shot deer is Claudius and the deer that is unshot and gets to play is Hamlet

Important Speeches Act 3

- Hamlet "to be or not to be" soliloquy act 3 scene 1 asking whether it is better to be alive or not be alive and that people stay along as long as they do b/c they don't know what dreams will come when they go to into the sleep of death. he then says contemplation makes cowards of us all and our resolution pales - Hamlet "get thee to a nunnery" speech act 3 scene 1 is saying that Ophelia should become a nun so she doesn't bring more sinners into the world, and then he says he himself has many faults that make it so it would have been better if he wasn't born. He says he has more sins at his beck than he has time, thought, or imagination to use them. - Ophelia "oh what a mind here is overthrown" speech act 3 scene 1 is saying that Hamlet used to be very smart and valiant, the future of Denmark, fashionable and attractive, and someone everyone was watching, but now he's lost all of his good qualities. She is the saddest woman having listened to his vows and believed them. His reason jingles like bells out of tune, and his youthful form is now "blasted" with ecstasy. Woe is her. - Claudius speech act 3 scene 1 saying Hamlet doesn't appear to be in love nor insane. He compares his melancholy to a chicken with an egg containing something in his soul that, when hatched, will be dangerous. Thus, he will send Hamlet to England to collect England's due tribute money to get this thing out of Hamlet's head - Polonius act 3 scene 1. Polonius agrees that that's a good plan but says that he still thinks Hamlet's behavior is due to neglected love. He asks Claudius to have Gertrude speak to Hamlet first since Hamlet might tell his mom the truth, and Polonius will be in the ear of their conference

Act 2 Scene 2: Part 4 - R+G and Hamlet

- Hamlet asks how R+G are doing. R says like the "indifferent children of the earth" and G says they're happy not being too happy and that, on Fortune's cap, they're not the button - H: Nor the soles of her shoe? G: Neither, my lord. H: Then you look around her waist or in her favors. G: Faith, her privates we - Hamlet calls Fortune a prostitute and asks what's new - R says just that the world's grown honest, so H says doomsday is near, but asks why Fortune has sent them to prison - When R asks, H says Denmark is a prison. R says then the world is one. After H continues, R says he disagrees, H says it's all about opinion - R says that means H's ambition makes Denmark a prison b/c Denmark's too small for his ambition - H says he could be bound in a nutshell and call himself a king of infinite space if not for bad dreams - G says ambitions are shadows of dreams, H adds that dreams are shadows, and R says ambition's a shadow's shadow - H says that means beggars with no ambition are made of substance and monarchs and heroes with ambition are their outstretched shadows - RG: We'll wait upon you. H: I wouldn't sort you among my servants. I'm already dreadfully waited upon. However, be frank with me as a friend, why u here? - Hamlet says they were sent for, G admits it, and H explains why so they don't break their promise to the king

Act 2 Scene 2: Part 3 - Hamlet and Polonius

- Hamlet comes in reading, so Polonius tells everyone (royals, attendants) to leave - P asks how H is doing and H says "well, god-a-mercy" and, when asked, says P is a fishmonger - H brings up the sun breeding maggots in a dead dog, then asks if P has a daughter then talks about conception - Polonius in an aside says H is still harping on his daughter and he is far gone, much like P when he was younger - P asks what H is reading, to which H says words. What's the matter? Between who? I mean the matter that you read. Slanders, for this slave says old men have grey beards, wrinkled faces, eyes purging thick amber... lack of wit, which I believe but wouldn't write. You could be my age if, like a crab, you could go backwards - This is madness though there be method in it. Would you like to get out of the air? Into my grave? - I humbly take my leave of you. There's nothing I'd rather lose more, except my life - When Polonius leaves, H says "these tedious old fools," implying he knows many people are involved

Act 1 Scene 5: Ghostless

- Hamlet exclaims about the spirits of Heaven, Earth, and Hell and tells his sinews to bear him "stiffly up" - He says he'll remember the ghost as long as memory holds a seat in "this distracted globe" and that he'll wipe from the table of his memory all "trivial fond records" that youth and observation copied there and keep only the ghost's commandment in his brain - He starts cursing his mom ("pernicious woman") and then says "'Adieu, adieu, remember me.' I have sworn't" - Marcellus and Horatio come in. Horatio asks what news, Hamlet says it's wonderful, but then refuses to say what the news is since "you'll reveal it" - Once Horatio says he'll be secret, Hamlet says that Claudius is an "arrant knave" to which Horatio says they didn't need a ghost to tell them that - Hamlet says it's an honest ghost and asks them one request: they never tell what they saw that night - they say they will not, but hamlet tells them to swear. Marcellus says they already swore, but then Hamlet tells them to swear on his sword - Thrice the ghost tells them to swear, Hamlet keeps moving them away from where the ghost is - Hamlet says he'll put an antic disposition on, and "cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right"

Act 1 Scene 2 Hamlet's Soliloquy and After

- Hamlet gives his soliloquy saying he wishes he could kill himself but it's a sin, the world seems worthless and "stale" and that it's an "unweeded garden," calls Hamlet "Hyperion to a satyr" and so loving that he wouldn't let the wind brush her too roughly, and she seemed to love him, and although "like Niobe" she cried when she followed the body, she married within a month - He says Claudius is no more like King Hamlet than little Hamlet is to Hercules, but Gertrude rushed to the "incestuous sheets" - Hamlet says he cannot say anything - Horatio, Marcellus, and Barnardo enter. When asked, Horatio says a "truant disposition" brings him from Wittenberg, but Hamlet says Horatio "shall not do my ear that violence" - Horatio says he came for KH's funeral, but Hamlet says it must've been for his mother's wedding - Horatio tells Hamlet about how they saw the ghost, and Hamlet decides that he will go to see it that night - Hamlet, alone, says he believes there's foul play, but he tells his soul to sit still until foul deeds inevitably rise to men's eyes

Act 2 Scene 2 - Part 6: The Players

- Hamlet says "Jephthah... what a treasure hadst thou" What treasure had he? A daughter he loved passing well - The players come in and Hamlet mentions how a young actor is bearded now and tells the actor who plays a woman he hopes his voice is not "cracked within the ring" - Hamlet tells 1st Player to recite a speech, starting the speech about Pyrrhus coming into Troy, covered in blood baked onto him and with glowing red eyes - First Player continues saying Pyrrhus knocks Priam, whose sword seemed to rebel, down but Pyrrhus got distracted before killing Priam by a building collapse, so he looked like a painted tyrant - Pyrrhus strikes w/o remorse. Polonius says the speech is too long, Hamlet says to go to the barber for his beard - 1st Player speaks of Hecuba who is disheveled and sees her husband Priam murdered and cries out, which would have made the gods cry if they saw - Hamlet says he'll have them do "The Murder of Gonzago" with a speech Hamlet will insert - Once everyone leaves, Hamlet starts calling himself a slave and saying it's terrible that the player had more emotion than he did. If the player had the same motive, he'd flood the stage with tears. He says he only thinks but never acts, like "John-a-Dreams" - He says he's heard that guilty people have been touched by plays sometimes so that they confess, so he'll watch Claudius' reaction to a play like Hamlet's murder and, if he flinches, Hamlet will know whether this ghost was truthful or a demon

Act 1 Scene 4

- Horatio, Hamlet, Marcellus on the platform close to midnight when a cannon fires and Horatio asks what it means - Hamlet says that Claudius is having trumpets blast and drums beat whenever he drinks. Horatio asks if it's a custom, and Hamlet says it's a custom better observed in "the breach." It makes Denmark look bad to other countries because it takes from the "pith and marrow" of their attribute - He compares it to men who have a "vicious mole of nature" but otherwise virtues that are "pure as grace" to say that in both cases the fault corrupts the good - The ghost comes, and Hamlet rhetorically asks if it's kind or evil and decides to say it's his dad. He asks why the sepulchre has opened its jaws and what they can do for the ghost - The ghost beckons Hamlet. Horatio and Marcellus tell Hamlet not to follow, but he says he does not set his life at a pin's fee - Horatio states that it might lead Hamlet to death or madness. Marcellus and Horatio try to hold Hamlet back, but he says his fate makes every arture in his body as "hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve" and gets away - Horatio and Marcellus discuss how they should follow Hamlet. Marcellus says "something is rotten in the state of Denmark," and then they exit

Personification Act 1 Scene 1-2

- Horatio: "I might not this believe / Without the sensible and true avouch / Of mine own eyes" after seeing Hamlet's ghost - 'Whose sore task does not divide the Sunday from the week' pg. 13 marcellus - 'Pricked on by a most emulate pride' horatio about older fortinbras pg. 13 - 'the moist star, / Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands, / Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.' Horatio 15, explaining how Rome went into a sort of apocalypse when their dead started returning - 'Awake the god of day; and at his warning, / Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, / Th'extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine.' Horatio 19 saying the rooster starts the day by waking up the day, as if the day is a person or god. He reiterates the point by saying 'But look, the morn in russet mantle clad, / Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.' - ''Tis unmanly grief, / It shows a will most incorrect to heaven, / A heart unfortified, a mind impatient, / An understanding simple and unschool'd;' claudius 27 saying hamlet's mourning is excessive and does not reflect well on him - 'This gentle and unforc'd accord of Hamlet / Sits smiling to my heart' claudius 29 when hamlet tells gertrude that he'll do his best not to go back to wittenberg - 'Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise, / Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.' hamlet 39 after saying he suspects foul play, but he'll have to stay calm until the foul deeds are inevitably shown to him

Hamlet w/ Claudius

- KING. Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will! But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son— HAMLET. [Aside.] A little more than kin, and less than kind. - 'KING. How is it that the clouds still hang on you?' HAMLET. 'Not so, my lord, I am too much i' the sun.' pg. 25 Hamlet and Claudius clearly have differing opinions - "Excellent, i' faith; of the chameleon's dish: I eat the air, promise-crammed: you cannot feed capons so." Hamlet act 3 scene 1 is saying that the air is crammed full of promises, but it is not literally, in response to Claudius asking how he fares - KING." Have you heard the argument? Is there no offence in't? HAMLET. No, no, they do but jest, poison in jest; no offence i' th' world." Claudius asks if the plot is offensive, to which Hamlet says the only offense is the poisoning, which is a fictional event - "Let the gall'd jade wince; our withers are unwrung." Hamlet act 3 scene 2 compares a guilty person to a horse (jade) that has been chafed (gall'd). Since Hamlet and the majesty's "withers are unwrung," their backs are unchafed, they shouldn't feel uncomfortable seeing the violence in the play *wink-wink* - KING. "At supper? Where?" HAMLET. "Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service,—two dishes, but to one table. That's the end." - KING. "Where is Polonius?" HAMLET. "In heaven. Send thither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th'other place yourself. But indeed, if you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby."

Act 2 Scene 1

- Laertes gives money and tells Reynaldo to give it to Laertes, also saying he should inquire about Laertes' behavior before he gets there - Tells him to find the Danes in France and lay some accusations of Laertes to bait them into saying what they actually know about him - "Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth" - Reynaldo leaves and Ophelia comes saying she's been scared - She says Hamlet came into her room with his doublet unbraced "pale as his shirt" and "as if he had been loosed out of hell" - Polonius asks if he was mad for her love, and Ophelia says she doesn't know but she fears it - She goes on to say he grabbed her wrist, stared at her, and then walked out - Polonius says he'll go tell Claudius and that this is the ecstasy of love. he then asks if she's said anything harsh to him lately - she says that she's been rejecting his letters and him like she was told to - Polonius says that made him mad and that his judgment that Hamlet doesn't love Ophelia was wrong. he says older people are often overconfident and young people have no discretion

Act 1 Scene 3 - Laertes

- Laertes tells Ophelia not to sleep and to write to him as long as the winds blow and the ships can sail. Ophelia asks if he doubts she would do that - Laertes then switches and tells Ophelia Hamlet's love is a violet, and his "will is not his own" b/c he might need to marry for political reasons - If he says he loves you, you should believe it, but don't give up your "treasure" to him - the canker worms destroy spring flowers, especially the young ones, and "safety lies in fear" - Ophelia says she'll keep the advice as "watchman" to her heart, but tells Laertes to practice what he preaches, unlike "some ungracious pastors" - Polonius comes and tells Laertes to be kind but not overly friendly, keep friends close but don't "dull thy palm" by becoming friends with every "unfledg'd companion," don't get into fights but stand your ground in the ones you end up in, listen more than you speak, listen to others' judgements but hold your own, dress nicely but not gaudily, don't borrow or lend money, and to thine own self be true

Hamlet w/ Polonius

- POLONIUS. 'Do you know me, my lord?' HAMLET. 'Excellent well. You're a fishmonger.' act 2 scene 2 - 'For the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey 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 act 2 scene 2 saying old men decay in several ways - POLONIUS. My lord, I have news to tell you. HAMLET. My lord, I have news to tell you. When Roscius was an actor in Rome— POLONIUS. The actors are come hither, my lord. HAMLET. Buzz, buzz. POLONIUS. Upon my honour. - "It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf there." Hamlet act 3 scene 2 is calling Polonius a calf, or a fool - HAMLET. "Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?" POLONIUS. "By the mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed. HAMLET. Methinks it is like a weasel." POLONIUS. "It is backed like a weasel." HAMLET. "Or like a whale." POLONIUS. "Very like a whale."

Important Speeches Act 1 Scene 1-2

- Pg. 13 - 15 horatio gives a long explanation about how king hamlet killed older Fortinbras and now young Fortinbras wants to take back the land that was by agreement given to king hamlet - Pg. 21 Claudius' speech focuses a lot on his marriage and plans for norway, not much on death of brother - Pg. 27 Claudius gives a long speech saying every man loses his father and, though a certain amount of grief is good, stubborn grieving like Hamlet's is unmanly, unholy, and weak. Next, he says he loves hamlet like a son - Pg. 29-31 hamlet gives a soliloquy after speaking to claudius and gertrude saying he wishes he could kill himself, his dad was so loving to his mom but she's moved on so quickly into an incestuous relationship

Speeches Act 1 Scene 3-5

- Pg. 39-41 laertes gives a long speech to ophelia that hamlet cannot choose who he marries and that ophelia must protect her honor by staying away from hamlet - Pg. 43-45 Polonius gives a long speech where he tells Laertes to hold on tightly to trustworthy friends but don't trust everyone he meets, don't get into fights but make your opponents respect you, listen more than you speak, hear everyone's opinions but reserve your judgements, buy high-end but not gaudy clothes, don't borrow or lend money, and be true to yourself - Pg. 47-49 Polonius talks about how Hamlet's vows are just "springes" and "brokers" to say they're not real and they're traps, then ends by telling Ophelia not to talk to Hamlet - Pg. 49-51 Hamlet says the tradition of shooting cannons when people drink during parties is a custom better broken and that other nations think they're drunkards despite Denmark's accomplishments because it is a fault in their core traits. He then explains that some people, even if they are kind and talented, are disliked because of some trait they got by chance or by birth - Pg. 51-53 Hamlet saying the Ghost comes in such strange form that he'll just call him his dad and asking repeatedly why the Ghost has risen from the dead. Next, he asks what the Ghost wants them to do

Act 1 Scene 3 - Polonius

- Polonius asks what Laertes told Ophelia, and then says Hamlet has given lots of private time to her and that she's been most free in her audience - She says he's made many tenders of his affection, to which Polonius calls her a green girl and asks if she really believes his tenders. she says she doesn't know what she should think. - he says to think herself a baby who has taken these tenders as true pay that aren't sterling - she retorts he's given her love in honorable fashion - he responds "springes to catch woodcocks." he knows how, when the blood burns, how the soul lends the tongue promises. these blazes of passion give more light than heat - you must be scanter in your maiden presence and realize that Hamlet has a longer tether than her - don't believe his vows for they are brokers, and don't talk to him anymore - she says she will obey

Corruption (Conversation with Gertrude)

- QUEEN. O Hamlet, speak no more. Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul, And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct. - HAMLET. "Nay, but to live In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love Over the nasty sty." Hamlet act 3 scene 4, after Gertrude says he's made her see the stains on her soul, compares her to a prostitute - "Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul That not your trespass, but my madness speaks. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen." Hamlet act 3 scene 4 asks Gertrude not to focus on Hamlet's so-called madness, which would be like putting an ointment on a wound w/o trying to heal the corruption growing and infecting within - "Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come; And do not spread the compost on the weeds, To make them ranker." Hamlet then says the real solution would be for her to repent and improve herself while preventing the problem from getting any worse - "Forgive me this my virtue; For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg, Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good." Hamlet act 3 scene 4 then says, in these morally lax times, Virtue must ask permission from Vice to do good for it

Act 1 Scene 2: Part 3 - Polonius, Gertrude, Claudius

- RG leave and Polonius enters, saying the ambassadors have returned - Polonius says, unless his mind doesn't hunt down truth as well anymore, he's found why Hamlet is crazy. When told, Gertrude says she doubts it's any more than Hamlet's father dying and then his mother remarrying, so Polonius says they will "sift" him - Voltemand comes in and gives a speech saying King Norway has stopped his nephew from invading Denmark but gave him money to invade Poland and just asks Fortinbras be allowed to pass through Denmark - Claudius says it sounds good, but he'll look over it and respond later - Polonius says Hamlet is mad, Gertrude tells him to have more substance and less "art," and Polonius responds he uses no art and goes on to read a letter from Hamlet to Ophelia that "in obedience" she showed her father - Polonius says he could have "play'd the desk" or gave his heart a winking, but he told Ophelia that Hamlet was out of her sphere and Ophelia obeyed his orders to ignore him, which has driven him through the stages of love-madness - Polonius and Claudius agree that P is always right, and then says he'll loose his daughter on Hamlet while P and C hide behind a curtain. If he's wrong, he'll become a farmer

Act 2 Scene 2: Part 5 - Discussion of Why RG are There

- RG: We'll wait upon you. H: I wouldn't sort you among my servants. I'm already dreadfully waited upon. However, be frank with me as a friend, why u here? - Hamlet says they were sent for, G admits it, and H explains why so they don't break their promise to the king - H says he's lost all mirth and sees the Earth as a sterile promontory and the sky as a pestilent group of vapors. He says humans are above all other animals and yet they're dust and neither man nor woman delights him - R says that means H will not make a good audience since players are coming - H says that the king and queen are fooled since H is only mad "north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a hand-saw" - Polonius comes in, Hamlet tells RG he's probably come to say there are players, and when Polonius comes saying he has news, Hamlet cuts him off and mentions "when Roscius was an actor in Rome" - Polonius says the actors are the best for every type of play, whether Seneca or Plautus - Hamlet says "Jephthah... what a treasure hadst thou" What treasure had he? A daughter he loved passing well

Act 1 Scene 5: The Ghost

- The ghost says it's almost time for him to give himself up to the sulph'rous flames - He says he's Hamlet's ghost who walks in the night and fasts in flames during the day, and though he's not allowed to say what Purgatory is like, he could tell a tale to make Hamlet's hairs stand on end like porcupine quills - Hamlet tells the ghost to say how he was murdered so Hamlet can get revenge, to which the ghost says he'd be duller than a fat weed in Lethe wharf not to want revenge after his tale - He says the story told into Denmark's ear is that he was killed by a snake, but that the snake now wears the crown - the ghost then calls Claudius an "incestuous" "beast" who used witchcraft and wit to win Gertrude. he then expresses how Gertrude went from him, who kept his wedding vows, to a man whose natural gifts were "poor" to his - He goes onto describe that he was lying in his garden when Claudius came and poured hebona in his ear, making "lazar-like" and dead in the "blossoms of my sin" with all my "imperfections on my head" - Ghost then tells Hamlet to avenge him but not to taint his mind or hurt Gertrude, leaving her to have the "thorns" prick and sting her. He leaves saying "Remember me"

Day and Night essay

- hyperion - The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm; So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. -And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. - a maid who exposes herself to the moon - it is now the witching hour of night - The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch, But we will ship him hence. - "It shall as level to your judgment 'pear As day does to your eye." Through figurative language, such as metaphor, and long speeches such as monologues and soliloquys, Shakespeare creates an effect of the day depicting the duality of King Hamlet's status as both a noble and weak figure and the night creates an effect of the strong emotions and opinions of characters. The use of the motifs of night and day thus show how a person's perspective influences how they treat and see people and shows that major figures in the play are driven by opinionated and superstitious nature.

Light and Darkness essay

- hyperion to a satyr - give me light - "Nor earth to me give food, nor heaven light," - "It shall as level to your judgment 'pear As day does to your eye." - hamlet's dark clothes - hoodman's-blind - gertrude says there are dark stains on her soul Through the use of figurative language, such as allusion and metaphor, as well as dialogue, Shakespeare uses the motif of light to show how strongly certain characters are led by emotions and opinions and uses the motif of darkness to show how negatively certain characters judge others. This demonstrates how strongly a tragic death can affect people and thus suggests that Hamlet, Gertrude, and Claudius do not feel naturally compelled to admit to their flaws.

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