Hamlet: Entire Play - 16 views
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O heavy deed! It had been so with us, had we been there: His liberty is full of threats to all; To you yourself, to us, to every one.
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Juan Ortega on 05 Nov 13Madness. Gertrude has just told her husband how Hamlet murdered Polonius blindly, the king says that this murder is a serious matter, especially serious because the victim could just as well been himself. -
Juan Ortega on 05 Nov 13Madness. Gertrude has just told her husband how Hamlet murdered Polonius blindly, the king says that this murder is a serious matter, especially serious because the victim could just as well been himself. It's weird how he doesn't mourn Polonius' death, just worries about himself.
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Mad as the sea and wind,
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Betrayal, Appearance vs. reality. It's unclear if Gertrude is keeping Hamlet's secret or really does think he's mad.
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like the owner of a foul disease, To keep it from divulging
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like some ore Among a mineral of metals base
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he weeps for what is done
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The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch
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Come, Gertrude, we'll call up our wisest friends;
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Revenge. Is Claudius trying to evade Hamlet's revenge? Telling everyone what Hamlet did will make everyone think that Hamlet is crazy and won't believe him if he says that Claudius killed King Hamlet.
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Revenge. Does he want to tell everyone that Hamlet is crazy so they don't believe Hamlet when he says that Claudius killed King Hamlet.
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Besides, to be demanded of a sponge!
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Appearance vs. Reality, Corruption By calling R a "sponge," Hamlet implies that through their foolishness R & G have been taken over by Claudius. They have lost their inner reality.
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Corruption, Appearance vs. Reality. By calling R a "sponge," Hamlet implies that through their foolishness R & G have been taken over by Claudius. They have lost their inner reality.
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I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.
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Mocking tone. An insulting comment will provoke no response from a fool too stupid to understand the insult.
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R tells Hamlet he does not understand what he is talking about; (he gets lost in Hamlet's extended sponge metaphor even though R himself is the king's sponge). Hamlet is glad his insult is not understood, as it confirms his sponge analogy.
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The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body.
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Body symbolizes kingship. Hamlet is implying that the current king does not represent true kingship.
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Symbolism body represents kingship. Hamlet is mocking R question about Polonius' body, and he is also implying that the current king, Claudius, does not embody true kingship
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He's loved of the distracted multitude
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Appearance vs. Reality. Polonius seems to think only of appearance and politics.
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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.
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Threat, Revenge, Death. He describes how life eats itself in order to live, and connects this idea to the image of worms eating a king. Hamlet is indirectly threatening Claudius.
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Hamlet's mockery and word play begins to focus on death. He describes how life devours itself in order to live, and explicitly links this idea to the image of worms devouring a king. In doing so, Hamlet is indirectly threatening Claudius. For everyone, rich ("your fat king") or poor ("your lean beggar"), the final destination ("the end") is the same
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Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.
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Symbolism. Hamlet is describing the circle of life. How one living creature serves as sustenance for another.
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My mother: father and mother is man and wife; man and wife is one flesh
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This is a reflection of how he cant accept that Claudius be his father. Like in Act 1 or 2 can't remeber when he says he refers to the sun but actually referring to sOn.
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Metonymy This is a reflection of how he cant accept that Claudius be his father. He calls him another think (mother) cause of Chritianity's "One-flesh union"
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Come, for England!
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Foreshadowing? Does he know what awaits him in England (Death). Is he inviting Claudius to his death?
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Foreshadowing? Does he know what awaits him in England (Death). Is he inviting Claudius to die?
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seek him i' the other place yourself.
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tempt him with speed aboard
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Corruption? He can't be obeyed to board because he isn't a "prisoner" he has to be tempted to board.
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Corruption? He can't be obeyed to board because he isn't a "prisoner" he has to be tempted to board.
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Go, captain, from me greet the Danish king; Tell him that, by his licence, Fortinbras Craves the conveyance of a promised march Over his kingdom
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Honor. By sending the captain to greet Claudius, Fortinbras shows he means to keep his word not to attack Denmark.
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Honor. By sending the captain to greet Claudius, Fortinbras shows he means to keep his word not to attack Denmark.
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That inward breaks, and shows no cause without Why the man dies.
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Exeunt all except HAMLET
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How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull
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Revenge. Everything that happens (all occasions do inform against me) serves only to remind Hamlet of what he has yet to do, revenge his father's murder by killing the king.
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Revenge. Everything that happens (all occasions do inform against me) serves only to remind Hamlet of what he has yet to do, revenge his father's murder by killing the king.
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The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their
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Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
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To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is, Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss: So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
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Guiltiness. The queen has reluctantly agreed to see Ophelia.As she waits for Ophelia to come in, thoughts return to her guilty conscience ("my sick soul") and the effect ("nature") of sin which causes every trifle ("toy") to seem a foreboding of some great calamity. She suspects others of suspecting her and her guilt is so great that attempts to hide it result only in greater suspicion.
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Conceit upon her father.
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Comparing? Is Claudius saying that she sounds like her father. She is being crazy and not getting to the point.
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Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes, And dupp'd the chamber-door; Let in the maid, that out a maid Never departed more.
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Sex, Virginity, Man vs. Women. Do Ophelia's songs about seduced maids indicate that she had a sexual relationship with Hamlet?
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies But in battalions
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The ocean, overpeering of his list, Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
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The ratifiers and props of every word, They cry 'Choose we: Laertes shall be king:'
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That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard,
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Symbol blood. He says that for not seeking revenge yet for his father's death he isn't a real son.
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Let come what comes; only I'll be
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Honor, revenge. What makes him kill anyone just to revenge hs fathers death but Hamlet has been waiting to revenge his fathers death the WHOLE FREAKING play!
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But not by him.
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O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
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Irony. Ironic how he says that he needs to stop procrastinating but still goes to England. #procrastinationlevelover9000
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And like the kind life-rendering pelican
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There's fennel for you, and columbines: there's rue for you; and here's some for me: we may call it herb-grace o' Sundays: O you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy: I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died: they say he made a good end,
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Symbolism. The flowers held symbolic meaning in Shakespeare's time. Rosemary for remembrance. Pansies for thoughts. Fennel for flattery. Columbines for infidelity. Daisies for seduction.
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So you shall;
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Corruption. Laertes acts without thinking. Claudius can manipulate those who don't think and turn their actions to his own advantage.
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SCENE VI. Another room in the castle.
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The pirate attack is an example of deus ex machina-a device used to further the plot and return Hamlet to Denmark. It doesn't have any real thematic meaning. In other words useless scene...
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O, for two special reasons;
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Convincing tone. Claudius is always calculating, always careful to manipulate events and perceptions of events. He has already blunted Laertes' purpose.
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will do't: And, for that purpose, I'll anoint my sword.
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Revenge, honor. Claudius uses flattery of Laertes swordsmanship to convince Laertes to join his plan. Claudius doesn't care about Laertes' honor. He just wants to get rid of Hamlet. Compare Laertes willingness to kill Hamlet in church; this is exactly what Hamlet refused to do to Claudius.
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With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly, It may be death.
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Honor, revenge, corruption. Laertes, who prides himself on honor, has been corrupted. He's joined an ignoble plot using deception and poison.
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Drown'd, drown'd
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Man vs. Women, revenge. The male response to tragedy is to seek revenge. Ophelia, who cannot "act" because she's a woman, opts for suicide.
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Let's follow, Gertrude:
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Corruption. Laertes, weeping, exits. Claudius fears Ophelia's death might reignite Laertes anger and rebellion. He and Gertrude follow Laertes to calm him down
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shame
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By cock
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tumbled me
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water
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Symbolism. Purity, Christianity. Washing yourself with sin and committing a sin while doing it. Not a virgin.
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Is she to be buried in Christian burial that
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If this had not been a gentlewoman, she should have been buried out o' Christian burial.
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Religion. Corruption. Since she was rich she gets to be buried. Religion and the state are corrupted. Rich get treated differently and better than the poor.
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confess thyself
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This is probably half a phrase, which the Second Clown interrupts by saying "Go to." There was a saying, "Confess thyself and be hanged," which had its origin in the fact that before a person was hanged, he/she was supposed to make a confession of sins to save his/her soul. Thus a person who is hopeless, clueless, lame, stupid, oblivious, or otherwise worthless can be told that he/she should "confess thyself and be hanged," because there is absolutely nothing else for him/her to do.
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Enter two Clowns
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Shakespearean fools. Shakespearean fools are usually clever peasants or commoners that use their wits to outdo people of higher social standing. In this sense, they are very similar to the real fools, and jesters of the time, but their characteristics are greatly heightened for theatrical effect. wikipedia
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Cain's jaw-bone
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Hum! This fellow might be in's time a great buyer of land
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Death. In the end when one dies it doesn't matter who you were what you were rich or poor we all have the same destiny. We are buried the same way and we all are just bone.
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They are sheep and calves which seek out assurance
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Mine, sir.
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You lie out on't, sir, and therefore it is not yours: for my part, I do not lie in't, and yet it is mine.
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HAMLET What man dost thou dig it for? First Clown For no man, sir. HAMLET What woman, then? First Clown For none, neither. HAMLET Who is to be buried in't? First Clown One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead.
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every fool can tell that
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there the men are as mad as he.
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How long will a man lie i' the earth ere he rot?
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Death. Hamlet's continuing fascination with death here comes in contact with the man who knows the most about it: a grave digger.
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I' faith, if he be not rotten before he die--as we have many pocky corses now-a-days, that will scarce hold the laying in--he will last you some eight year or nine year: a tanner will last you nine year.
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Death, Appearance vs. Reality. There is one reality that awaits all men: death and decomposition. No matter whether you're Caesar or a beggar, that's your fate. While Horatio says that Hamlet is still thinking too much, Hamlet seems to find the idea freeing.
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Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing.
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Death. Hamlet is shocked: he knew Yorick. Hamlet examines the skull. He realizes that death will claim everyone, and says no amount of makeup can hold off the inevitable. All the earthly matters don't matter when you're dead.
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'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.
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Why, here in Denmark: I have been sexton here, man and boy, thirty years.
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Her obsequies have been as far enlarged As we have warrantise: her death was doubtful; And, but that great command o'ersways the order, She should in ground unsanctified have lodged Till the last trumpet: for charitable prayers, Shards, flints and pebbles should be thrown on her; Yet here she is allow'd her virgin crants, Her maiden strewments and the bringing home Of bell and burial.
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Religion, Honor, Appearance vs. Reality, Death, Suicide. The priest is unwilling to provide further ceremony because it seemed like suicide. The priest can't tell the difference between appearance and reality, so he plays it safe.
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Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling.
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Symbol. Violets symbolize faithfulness, which for Ophelia may represent her faithfulness, as a maiden, to virginity and purity. Laertes concludes by asserting that his sister will become a "ministering angel" while the priest will lie in the earth howling in hell when he dies
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Sweets to the sweet
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To o'ertop old Pelion, or the skyish head Of blue Olympus.
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Yet have I something in me dangerous,
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I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers
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Love, metaphor, hyperbole, women vs men. He says he loves Ophelia after she dies... Also he compares his love to 40k brothers' love to make Laertes mad.
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Dost thou come here to whine? To outface me with leaping in her grave? Be buried quick with her, and so will I:
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Irony. Hamlet accuses Laertes of trying to outface him by leaping into the grave, which is somewhat ironic, as that is exactly what Hamlet himself is trying to do
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I'll rant as well as thou.
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as patient as the female dove, When that her golden couplets are disclosed, His silence will sit drooping.
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Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting
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Without debatement further, more or less, He should the bearers put to sudden death, Not shriving-time allow'd.
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Appearance vs reality, honor, revenge, betrayal. R and G are duped again. Their sad fate shows the way plots and deception tend to widen and take the lives of those on the periphery too.
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But I am very sorry, good Horatio, That to Laertes I forgot myself; For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture of his: I'll court his favours. But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me Into a towering passion.
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Honor. Hamlet says he has no sympathy for R and G, who gave up their honor to curry favor with the king. But he is sorry he fought with Laertes, who only wanted to revenge his own father. He identifies himself with Laertes.
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Thy state is the more gracious; for 'tis a vice to know him. He hath much land, and fertile: let a beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at the king's mess: 'tis a chough; but, as I say, spacious in the possession of dirt.
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Appearance vs. Reality. Osric is what Hamlet most hates, a man who values appearance over reality.
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Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special
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Hamlet has just told Horatio that he has a bad feeling about the upcoming duel with Laertes and Horatio has offered to make his excuses for him, when Hamlet declares that he is not tempted to decline the match ("not a whit") as he will not let omens ("we defy augury") dictate his royal ("we") actions.
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providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
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Death, honor, appearance vs. reality. Hamlet is finally at peace. He accepts death. Death comes for everyone, so why not face it now? Note that Hamlet has ceased to plot: he's chosen reality over appearance.
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Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness. Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes?
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Madness. Was he mad and now he is ok? Or is he still mad? OR was he never mad and acted everything all out and he is just a freaking genius?
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but in my terms of honour I stand aloof; and will no reconcilement, Till by some elder masters, of known honour
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Honor, revenge, appearance vs. reality, betrayal. Laertes speaks of honor while plotting against Hamlet. He's sold his soul for vengeance. he is a lying cunt.
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It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of gain-giving, as would perhaps trouble a woman.
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Foreshadowing. theme women. He is saying he has a bad feeling about this (Laertes using a poisoned sword), but he says it must be trouble a women feels.
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I'll be your foil, Laertes: in mine ignorance Your skill shall, like a star i' the darkest night, Stick fiery off indeed.
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And in the cup an union shall he throw,
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[Aside] It is the poison'd cup: it is too late.
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LAERTES wounds HAMLET; then in scuffling, they change rapiers, and HAMLET wounds LAERTES
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Revenge, death, poison, corruption, appearance vs. reality. Laertes gets his revenge, but it rebounds on himself.
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No, no, the drink, the drink,--O my dear Hamlet,-- The drink, the drink! I am poison'd. Dies
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Death, poison, corruption, appearance vs. reality. Claudius lies right up until the end. But death is a reality that appearance can't hide.
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I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery
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It is here, Hamlet: Hamlet, thou art slain; No medicine in the world can do thee good; In thee there is not half an hour of life; The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, Unbated and envenom'd: the foul practise Hath turn'd itself on me lo, here I lie, Never to rise again: thy mother's poison'd: I can no more: the king, the king's to blame.
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Betrayal, betrayal, honor, revenge. Laertes betrays Hamlet with the poison, karma bites Laertes' ass and he betrays the king by opening himself and being honest. Betrayal within a betrayal, betrayalception?
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Stabs KING CLAUDIUS
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REVENGE. FINALLY!!!!!!!!!! NO MORE PROCRASTINATION! Hamlet gets his revenge.he finally did it, it took him a whole freaking play to kill this guy and he did it because he is about to die and he killed his mother...
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treason
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Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee.
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Honesty, forgiveness, honor, revenge, death. Hamlet and Laertes are honest before they die. They forgive each other.
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As thou'rt a man, Give me the cup: let go; by heaven, I'll have't. O good Horatio, what a wounded name,
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Horatio wants to kill himself, but Hamlet forbids it: Horatio must tell Hamlet's story to the world.
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On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice; So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less, Which have solicited. The rest is silence.
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Honor, revenge, appearance vs. reality. Fortinbras achieves "vengeance" by not pursuing it. He's the only character who never plots, he always chooses reality over appearance.
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That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead:
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Revenge, death. The deaths of R and G emphasize absurd and bloody reach of revenge.
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For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune: I have some rights of memory in this kingdom, Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me.
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Honor, health, appearance vs. reality. Claudius's lies are swept away, and Denmark is "healed" by a succession from Hamlet to Fortinbras.
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