Hamlet

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Hamlet
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Wants to give good strategies / List making / RCH / Answers for everything out there / not the right answer.

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If there be any good thing to be done, That may to thee do ease and grace to me,
Speak to me:

If thou art privy to thy country's fate, Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid, O, speak!Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life Extorted treasure in the womb of earth, For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,Speak of it: stay, and speak!

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Act 1 Scene 2
Claudius uses words which are opposites which show that both emotions are present at the same time. Defeated Joy People hear what they want to hear and have more reason to trust Claudius. Can not tell Claudius's true feelings.

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Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,The imperial jointress to this warlike state, Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,--With an auspicious and a dropping eye, With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole,--Taken to wife

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Act 1 Scene 2

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Seems, madam! nay it is; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play:But I have that within which passeth show;These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

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List of items which show that Gertrude is grieving. RCH Appearance vs Reality

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Act 1 Scene 2
Hamlets deepest depression because Hamlet is so overcome with the death of his father. Critical of his mother for her new marriage to Claudius

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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 His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! . . .
Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on: and yet, within a month--Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman!

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Act 1 Scene 2
Important in terms of the character of Hamlet that God will intervine to provide justice (opinion prior to seeing ghost)

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Foul deeds will rise
Though all the earth o’rewhelm them to men’s eyes.

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Act 1 Scene 3
Poloneious fool character(RCH) Idea that if you are true to yourself and trying to be a virtuous character then you are true to yourself. Not False...but is part of the corrupt court

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This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day,Thou canst not then be false to any man.

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Act 1 Scene 4
Hamlet - drunkeness on Claudius's part is the one bad quaility which is his defect to the state. or is it referring to Hamlet's own inabiltiy to act without thinking things through.

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So, oft it chances in particular men, That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth--wherein they are not guilty,. . . that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star,--Their 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:

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Act 1 Scene 4
ghost - Things which Hamlet is concerned with such as Gertrudes Marriage and Claudius as King are worse than Old Hamlets murder
Hamlet - as quickly thoughts can come Hamlet is still analysing and not acting.

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Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.. . .

Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge.

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Act 1 Scene 5
Hamlet now believes that God is not going to provide justice, but instead Hamlet must provide justice instead of God.

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O cursed spite that over I was born to set it right

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Act 2 Scene 1
Ophia - CLOSET Scene / RCH LIST - Has not kept up his appearances because he is so much in love (or is this part of Hamlet's act)

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

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Act 2 scene 2
Claudius is using Hamlet's old friends. Hamlet is testing his friends -- Friends are confirming or projecting Claudius's belief that Hamlet's ambition is making Hamlet mad.

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HAMLET My excellent good friends! How dost thou,Guildenstern? Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do ye both?

ROS As the indifferent children of the earth.

GILD Happy, in that we are not over-happy; On fortune's cap we are not the very button. . . .
'Faith, her privates we.

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Act 2 Scene 2
Hamlet - Man is the highest on on the hiarchy of live beings because of mans ability to reason. or Reason does not make us superior to other beings. Hamlet is questioning himself.

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HAMLET 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.

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Act 2 Scene 2
Hamlet is requesting for the players to perform a specific scene (speech) which avenges a killing or death. Psychology where Hamlets mind is...Hamlet has his sword raised, but does not seem to have the focus to carry out the task of avenging the murder. stopped/conflicted and aware that his mother would grieve if Claudius would die

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So, as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood, And like a neutral to his will and matter, Did nothing.. . . so, after Pyrrhus' pause, Aroused vengeance sets him new a-work; And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall On Mars's armour forged for proof eterne With less remorse than Pyrrhus' bleeding sword Now falls on Priam.

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Act 2 Scene 2
Hamlet - what type of character is he in the play. recognizing that influences have affected or changed his plan.

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O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit. . . What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? What would he do,Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have?

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Act 2 Scene 2
Hamlet - power of play will motivate the consciousness people. Ghost is good or evil, get Claudius to confess publically. Points up Shakespears medium in self reflecting for Shakespear and his audience and their conscious.

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I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.

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Act 2 Scene 2
Hamlet - uses the play with in the play to get Claudius to admit his guilt on a public stage.

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The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play 's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.

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Act 3 Scene 1
Most famous - Hamlet's thoughts - Audience sees Olphia. set speech Hamlet plans to give to an audience. Dealing with thoughts of suicide. Hamlet wants to convince Claudius that Hamlet is grieving and possibly mad.

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To be, or not to be: that is the question: 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?

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Act 3 Scene 1
Hamlet - interacting with Olphia admits to being sinful himself and wants to send Olphia off to the nunnery to protect Olphia's innocence. Or is she consiously being used by her father and is already corrupt (appearance and reality) innocence or corruption. "Where is your father? Olphias response shows that she is lieing to Hamlet and does not rebel against her father.

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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. . . .
Go thy ways to a nunnery. Where's your father?

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Act 3 Scene 1
Hamlet - proof of Hamlets reputation of being a scholar, soldier

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O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!

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Act 3 Scene 2
Hamlet - Play with in a play Murder of Gonzago connection with the Murder of Old Hamlet.

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HAMLET He poisons him i' the garden for's estate. His name's Gonzago: the story is extant, and writ in choice Italian: you shall see anon how the murderer gets the love of Gonzago's wife.

OPHELIA The king rises.

HAMLET What, frighted with false fire! . . .

CLAUDIUS Give me some light: away!

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Act 3 Scene 2
Hamlet - shows us his state of mind. Has an agenda and he only wants to shock his mother with his words, but does not want to hurt his mother physically. Shows he is in a murderous state, but is still delaying his actions.

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Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on. Soft! now to my mother. O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom: Let me be cruel, not unnatural: I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

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Act 3 Scene 3
Claudius - looks like he is in a state of grace, in a very vulnerable position, but Claudius then he confesses that he killed Old Hamlet, but is not willing to give up what he got.

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O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon't,A brother's murder. Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will: My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent; And, like a man to double business bound,I stand in pause where I shall first begin,And both neglect.

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Act 3 Scene 3
Hamlet - does not kill Claudius, CLIMAX he wants public justice not private justice.

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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, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven.

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Act 3 Scene 3
Claudius -

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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

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Act 3 Scene 4
Gertrude - Hamlet might really be crazy.

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Alas, how is't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy And with the incorporal air do hold discourse?

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Act 3 Scene 4
Hamlet has killed Polonius and their is a RC Universe - God can intervene in many different ways.

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I do repent: but heaven hath pleased it so, To punish me with this and this with me, That I must be their scourge and minister. I will bestow him, and will answer well The death I gave him.

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Act 4 Scene 3
Foul oder - treatening Claudius and therefore Claudius decides to send Hamlet away. Claudius solidifies his macavelene character

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CLAUDIUS Where is Polonius?

HAMLET 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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Act 4 Scene 1
Hamlet - recognizes that he has many failed attempts.

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How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge! . . .
Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do'

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Act 4 Scene 1
Fortenbase - is looking for Honor and does not want to be in court

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Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.

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Act 4 Scene 1
Hamlet - thoughts again, but no actions

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O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!

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Act 4 Scene 5

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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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Act 4 Scene 5

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How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with: To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation. . . . I'll be revenged Most thoroughly for my father.

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Act 4 Scene 5
Hamlet's letter to Heratio - Story of the Pirate ship interception. Hamlet jumps from the Danish ship to the Pirate ship - anticipates plots agains him and that Claudius is attempting to kill Hamlet.(Becoming a more Macavellian character) Implies a bargan is made with the Pirate ship. Interpret as God's intervention. Recaptures his faith

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Ere we were two days old at sea, a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us chase. Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put ona compelled valour, and in the grapple I boarded them: on the instant they got clear of our ship; so I alone became their prisoner. They have dealt with me like thieves of mercy: but they knew what they did; I am to do a good turn for them.

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Act 4 Scene 5
Gertrude - Report of off screen action. Did Ophelia die because she was mad, or by chance.

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There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come. . . Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death.

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Act 4 Scene 5
Lehrtes - He is not going to cry because it is too femine

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Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: but yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out.

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Act 5 Scene 1
Hamlet - we are all going to die. death is inavitable. what happens when we die recycle of life back into the earth. acceptance of death.

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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.

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Act 5 Scene 2
Hamlet - just happened to be wandering around and he found the note written by Claudius plotting against Hamlet's life

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Rashly, And praised be rashness for it, let us know, Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall: and that should teach us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

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Act 5 Scene 2

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Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special 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.

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Act 5 Scene 2
Claudius -

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The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath; And in the cup an union shall he throw,Richer than that which four successive kings In Denmark's crown have worn.

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Act 5 Scene 2
leatas - public acknowledgement that Claudius is to blame

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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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Act 5 Scene 2
Hamlet - Finally kills Claudius

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The point!--envenom'd too! Then, venom, to thy work.

Treason! treason!

O, yet defend me, friends; I am but hurt.

Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, Drink off this potion. Is thy union here? Follow my mother.

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Act 5 Scene 2
Hamlet - asking Horatio to tell his story

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O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me! If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.

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Act 5 Scene 2
Forten Baus - Restore of Order. No one but the audience understands Hamlet. Projecting a soldiers death upon hamlet

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Let four captains Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage; For he was likely, had he been put on, To have proved most royally: and, for his passage, The soldiers' music and the rites of war Speak loudly for him.