Hamlet: Entire Play - 16 views
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The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead
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Chloe Horsfall on 17 Oct 13The theme of Death is noticed throughout the whole play
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immortal
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skull,
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repetition - is a recurring symbol that highlights the scene in the graveyard and foretells the death that is about to come.
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O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
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Theme - Madness is shown in the very beginning by Hamlets moaning and nonsense
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How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on,
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Theme - Madness, at this point the ghost has told Hamlet what really happened and he is planning action. He wants to 'pretend to be a madman' - however to the audience he could already seem a little mad
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He will stay till ye come.
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Tone - Humor throughout this part of the scene where they are trying to find the body of Polonius
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Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
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Diction - Here Hamlets feeling are expressed on what he is planning. The words suggests he is disappointed, it sets a tone of disgust and no faith in man.
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To be, or not to be: that is the question:
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Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
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Imagery - he explains that only by suffering will there be better things and illustrates this with the arrows. It is better to suffer first.
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O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
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'Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be But I am pigeon-liver'd and lack gall To make oppression bitter, or ere this I should have fatted all the region kites With this slave's offal: bloody, bawdy villain! Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain! O, vengeance! Why, what an ass am I!
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Tone - more self criticism, it can be sensed that hamlet it a little more modest that most lords etc.
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Bernardo?
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Suspense - the way that the guards fail to recognise each other and are asking who is there increases the suspense
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HAMLET
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Below is Hamlets first soliloquy where he delivers his thoughts to the audience. Throughout the play this helps with understanding the character and gives and insight to his train of thought.
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That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
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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, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub
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Metonymy - a type of metaphor that substitutes the name of one thing with something it is closely associated with. Here it could represent death.
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For who would bear the whips and scorns of time
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But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
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Metaphor - he called death the 'undiscover'd country from whose bourn no traveller returns'
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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
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This statement covers all the things that happened and foreshadows the rest of the play. That the king dies (murdered) the brother is now king, the wife re-marries etc.
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Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!
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Irony - this man is here speaking wise words to his son later on he becomes nosy, talks to much and then gets himself killed.
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Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief: your noble son is mad:
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Irony - this is a smart comment from Polonius then he ruins it by speaking some more and sounding like a fool
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In heaven; send hither to see: if your messenger find him not there, seek him i' the 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.
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Tone - Humor is used as Hamlet replies to the King with snarky comments with a subtle hint of comedy.
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There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will,--
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Is Hamlet saying that there is a higher power controlling their fate or that their lives have already been planned?
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[Aside] A little more than kin, and less than kind
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Hamlet says this as an a Aside - a snide comment - he disproves the marriage that his mother is and is detaching himself from the family. he is not at all like Claudius
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We heard it all. My lord, do as you please; But, if you hold it fit, after the play Let his queen mother all alone entreat him To show his grief: let her be round with him; And I'll be placed, so please you, in the ear Of all their conference. If she find him not, To England send him, or confine him where Your wisdom best shall think
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I mean, my head upon your lap?
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country matters
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I think nothing, my lord
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You are naught, you are naught: I'll mark the play.
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Again more sexual banter - he is making another joke, is he an immature jerk/ crazy or just pointing out the true nature of people. (in the last section he was telling her to go to a nunnery)
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Hamlet, this deed, for thine e
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How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her own defence?
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This form of suicide is the only way that her action wold be accepted under the christian law if it were a form of self defence
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HORATIO
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At this point we are debating whether Hamlet is really mad. He shows here that he may be sane as he out wits the king and finds a way to change his fate and make his way home.
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Now might I do it pat, now he is praying; And now I'll do't. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged. That would be scann'd: A villain kills my father; and for that,
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Believes that because his uncle was praying he may go to heaven if killed at this moment. However Claudius is having a problem with confessing his sins.
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To have proved most royally
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What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! 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.
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This motif, an expression of his obsession with the physicality of death, recurs throughout the play, reaching its height in his speech over Yorick's skull.
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His dislike for humans as dust is apparent as he examines the earth, air and sun then rejects them and humanity - unexpected
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HORATIO
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ainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
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ainst self-slaughter! O God! Go
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ghter! O
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Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother
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god - hyperion satyr- half human half goat - half beast comparison show how hamlet view claudius
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Hyperion to a satyr
