1. Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, / Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd,
No reckoning made, but sent to my account / With all my imperfections on my head:
O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible! Speaker: GHOST Act I scene v
- The Ghost of Hamlet is speaking directly to Prince Hamlet
- Describing his death/murder to Hamlet
2. If with too credent ear you list his songs,
Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open
To his unmaster'd importunity. Speaker: Laertes Act I scene iii
Where: A room in Polonius’ room
Laertes speaking to his sister, Ophelia
3. Fie! 'tis a fault to heaven, / A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,
To reason most absurd: whose common theme / Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried,
From the first corse till he that died to-day,
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What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,
Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff
That beetles o'er his base into the sea,
And there assume some other horrible form,
Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason
And draw you into madness? Think of it. Speaker: Horatio Act I scene iv
Horatio speaks to Prince Hamlet
Cautioning him – the Ghost
5. Remember thee! / Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat
In this distracted globe. Speaker: Hamlet Act I scene v
6. How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
That grows to seed; Speaker: Hamlet Act I scene ii
7. But come. / Here, as before, never, so help you mercy,
How strange or odd some'er I bear myself,
(As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
To put an antic disposition on)… Speaker: Hamlet Act I scene
My so called friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern whom I know from Wittenberg were invited by my mother and Claudius to spy on me because they were concerned with my behavior and my apparent inability to recover from my father’s death. Claudius wasn’t only worried about me but also worried that Prince Fortinbras’s would attack Denmark thankfully he only asks if his armies could be allowed safe passage through Denmark on their way to attack the Poles. Relieved to have averted a war with Fortinbras’s army, Claudius gives him permission to only pass by. When I saw my friends have arrived I asked why they came to visit they lied and said just to see me I knew my mother and her king were behind this so I didn’t worry much
together in sympathetic union, to share a common grief” (William Alden Smith). In the days
Presentation of Hamlet in Act 2 Scene 2 and 3 in William Shakespeare's Hamlet It is hard to determine the intentions of William Shakespeare when he wrote "Hamlet" without looking at the social, historical and ethical context in which it was conceived. From the cover notes found within the 'Longman Literature' edition, we can deduce that it is Shakespeare's most well known play and, written during the year 1602, it was one of his later works. At this time, revenge was a very popular theme for plays and there is evidence if this in the vast number of plays about revenge that were written at the start of the seventeenth century.
The two versions of Hamlet, that I compared for Act III, Scene i are Hamlet starring Mel Gibson released in 1990 and Hamlet staring Kennith Branagh released in 1996. Theses two were interpreted differently even though they followed the play written by William Shakespeare somewhere between 1599 and 1602. Both of these recreations were set in Denmark in a royal palace. However, scenery was different and so was costume design.
In act I scene ii Hamlet,his mother, and father/uncle were discussing how Hamlet should remain in Denmark and not go back to school in Wittenberg. This scene is crucial in the play because it takes the quote "keep your friends close, and your enemies closer" very literal. By asking Hamlet to stay Claudius is getting the upper hand with having the ability of keeping his eye on Hamlet.The main character Hamlet is viewed as a recently become madman because of his rejected love from Ophelia. He is also seen a inexperienced prince by his stepfather, Claudius and Polonius. In Hamlet's soliloquies we can see that he disapproves of his mothers marriage to Claudius[uncle/stepfather] because she married him so soon after his fathers death.Along with
Spoken by Marcellus as he and Horatio discuss whether they should follow Hamlet and the ghost of his father in the night, Marcellus remarks on the circumstance by which they have stumbled upon. The appearance of the ghost, the supernatural, in the state of Denmark have thrown the prince and his comrades into a world they do not understand.
Shakespeare’s use of scene juxtaposition in Act 3 of Hamlet emphasizes Hamlet’s conflicting feelings and actions, which works together to unveil his deeper emotions and establish change in tempo of the play. The significant juxtaposition of Scene 3 and Scene 4 in Act 3 provides insight into Hamlet’s thought process, showing that he is quick to think yet slow to act. It stimulates a better understanding of the underlying relationship between Hamlet and characters such as Claudius, King Hamlet, and Gertrude.
Act II scene i of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is a scene in which a lot is revealed. In this scene Polonius sends his servant, Reynaldo, to France to see Laertes and also to spy on him. As Reynaldo is on his way out, Ophelia comes into the scene and she is very distraught. She explains to Polonius that Hamlet had confronted her in a very unkempt state. Hamlet had grabbed her wrist and held her there for a few moments and then sighed. In this entire encounter Hamlet did not speak. Polonius is convinced that Hamlet is madly in love with Ophelia and that in addition to Polonius forcing Ophelia to distance herself from Hamlet is that is the reason for this encounter. The scene ends with Polonius going to see Claudius of his idea. This scene shows evidence of dramatic irony because Polonius is convinced that Hamlet is mad because he is in love with Ophelia but the audience knows that Hamlet is only pretending to be mad.
Act 3 Scene 4, so called the closet scene, is the first time we see Hamlet and Gertrude together alone. In this scene Hamlet releases his anger and frustration at his mother for the sinful deed she has committed i.e. her marriage to her brother-in-law and the murderer. We can see that Gertrude is unaware of her husband's murder when she says `As kill a King?' and it is the first time she confronts her own behavior. There is a conflict between the two; Hamlet gives powerful replies
Emotion is not an easy task for men, in general. Moreover, crying is a sign of weakness. Thomas’ father is dying and naturally, Thomas is having a tough time accepting his father’s death. Thomas wants his father to understand that even his “old age should burn and rage at the close of the day” (2). Meaning, he should not give up without a fight.
In the play,”Hamlet, Act 3 scene 1” the target audiences between both plays were to a wide variety of people. Back when Hamlet was first written, it was made to be viewed by a wide variety of audiences. Typically during the renaissance era, plays were made more common to the lower part of society; this being why Hamlet was written. Although both plays are to the same audience, the first one is more distinct into who it wants viewed. It had elegance, and was more formal and professional. You could see in the audience people were wearing suits a formal attire. As to the second one, it was smaller scale, and the audience had people in shorts and sweats.
'Hamlet ', one of William Shakespeare longest and finest piece of literary work. Hamlets play hones in on characteristics such as, sadness, madness, insanity, morbidity, and mortality. While many scenes depict many of these characteristic’s if not more than one, Act 5 Scene 1 is renownedly known for exhibiting all five of these characteristics in just a few paragraphs. With Shakespeare’s writing technique imagery, repletion, and metaphors expressed throughout this scene, it allows for the reader to receive a clear image of what is going through Hamlets mind.
During the early seventeenth century, poets were able to mourn the loss of a child publicly by writing elegies, or poems to lament the deceased. Katherine Philips and Ben Jonson were two poets who wrote the popular poems “On the Death of My Dearest Child, Hector Philips”, “On My First Son”, and “On My First Daughter” respectively. Although Philips and Jonson’s elegies contain obvious similarities, the differences between “On the Death of My Dearest Child” and “On My First Son” specifically are pronounced. The emotions displayed in the elegies are very distinct when considering the sex of the poet. The grief shown by a mother and father is a major theme when comparing the approach of mourning in the two elegies.
Act III, scene I takes place in a room at Elsinore Castle. It starts off with King Claudius, Queen Gertrude, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern all gathering to talk about Hamlet. King Claudius had sent Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to speak to him to try figure out the cause of his strange behavior. He figures Hamlet will open up to them because they are childhood friends. Unfortunately, they report back that they could not find the cause of his melancholy. The King is not satisfied with this and dismisses them along with Gertrude so that he and Polonius may spy on Hamlet’s confrontation with Ophelia. This is where Hamlet begins his soliloquy. He starts with the question, to be or not to be. He is questioning life and whether to live unhappily or not to live at
In Memoriam A. H. H.” For example, Canto 83 portrays the culminating anger that the speaker is battling over the loss of his friend. The speaker writes, “For this alone on Death I wreak / The wrath that garners in my heart; / He put our lives so far apart / We cannot hear each other speak” (1525- 1528). Within these lines, the speaker is conveying his opinion that he has somehow been wronged by the death of his friend.