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Good Hamlet, cast thy knighted color off,
And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
Do not for ever with thy vailed lids
Seek for thy noble father in the dust
Thou know’st ‘tis common. All that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.
Ay, madam, it is common.
Gertrude to Hamlet after Claudius addresses him
-Hamlet says this experience is common to many people except that it is different for him as it has never happened to him before.
-Hamlet has an unusal capacity for self reflections and philosophical investigation
-he is trying to do the right thing in a rotten world
-he is indecisive
Who's there?
Bernardo-
-Opening line of the play
-Bernardo is coming to relieve Francisco from his nightwatch duties
-Play opens in a tense confusion
-It is interesting that it is the person coming to the guard who asks- not the guard- which is his role
-Much of the play takes on an interogative tone
-Who is Hamlet?
What, has this thing appeared again tonight?
I have seen nothing.
Horation and Barnardo are discussing the apparition that looks like Hamlet's father.
-The line could be about the play itself: Hamlet is thought to be a rewrite of the earlier version from Thomas Kyd-> Ur-Hamlet
-There is also a recursive nature to the play- it doubles back on itself alot
-Skepticism to the play- audiences would be skeptical as the original was very melodramatic
-Horatio says ‘tis but our fantasy, And will not let belief take hold of him Touching this dreaded sight twice seen of us. 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.
-Tush, tush, ‘twill not appear.
-Sit down awhile,And let us once again assail your ears,That are so fortified against our story
-Well, sit we down.And let us hear Barnardo speak of this.
-Last night of all, When yond same star that’s westward from the pole Had made his course t’illume that part of heaven Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, The bell then beating one – ENTER GHOST.
-Marcellus and Barnardo are trying to convince Horatio that the ghost is not just their fantasy
-The ghost appears before Barnardo can finish describing it
-The ghost is different from how people thought: clad in war attire, silent
-Catholics thought Ghosts were in purgatory and had unfinished business
-Protestants like Hamlet believed ghosts came from hell to taunt/tempt people
-Others though ghosts were hallucinations of mad people
-Speaks to worries in England at the time: now a protestant state, but before was Catholic: there were chantries to pray for the departed soul, but now where does the soul go?
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 is addresing Horatio before the start of the play. He is telling him that he admires him because he is not a slave to his passions
Now I am alone. 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 whole conceit
That from her working all his visage wanned, Tears in his eyes...Yet I, A dull and muddy mettled rascal, ...can say nothing
Hamlet- after watching the players perform a small scene. (After R and G tried to question him for the king). One of the players was so overcome with the role that he was driven to tears.
-Hamlet wonders why he cannot feel like the player does
-Notice that he refers to his father as a "king"-shows that their relationship was based on idolatry and not intimacy
-Shows a contradiction because he tells Horatio he admires him for he is not a slave to passion
-Hamlet is torn between two types of people: those who are rational and those who feel and wants to be able to integrate these
O that this too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew..O God! O God!
But two months dead- nay not so much, not two-
So excellent a king, that was to this
Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother that he might not beteem the winds of heaven visit her face too roughtly.
Hamlet- after being questioned by Claudius and Gertrude for why he was still so gloomy
-discusses suicide and
comparing his father to God (Hyperion). Still only refers to him as a "King"
'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet,
To give thse mourning duties to your father;
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. But to persever in obstinate condolement is a course of impious stubbornness, 'tis unmanly grief.
Claudius to Hamlet
-Claudius might feel that Hamlet is brooding because he is resentful he is not knig
-the throne has passed through Gertrude to Claudius instead of Hamlet (She is the "imperial jointress of this war-like state")
-Claudius is suggesting publically that Hamlet's cause of grief is not resentment but due to his father's daeath
Forinbras, which he, in brief, obeys,
Receives rebuke from Norway, and, in fine, makes vow before his uncle never more to give th' assay of arms against your majesty"
Voltemand- reporting to Claudius on how Fortinbras from Norway was planning to start something with him. Fortinbras is Hamlet's foil in that he has also lost a father, and his uncle has also taken the throne
This was I sleeping, by a brother's hand,
Of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatched,
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
Unhouseled, dis-appointed, unanele, No reckoning made...adieu, adieu Hamlet. Remember me."
The ghost is telling Hamlet how Claudius is to blame for his death. His closing remark "Adieu" is a pun. Dieu=god, and Hamlet views his father as a god-like figure
"A murderer and a villain,
A slave that is not twentieth part the title of your precedent lord, a vice of kings"

"Does it not, think'st thee, stand now upon- he that hath killed my king and whored my mother, popped in between th' electrion and my hopes,
Thrown out his angle for my proper life"
These passages said by Hamlet throughout the play, are his recognition that he has been treated unfairly: lost father, his uncle had something to do with it
-he has also been prevented from taking his rightful place in society, his uncle has usurped the throne
What a piece of work is 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!
Hamlet is telling R and G why he has "lost his mirth". He has learnt about the dignity of man at Wittenburg (college) however in his life he is lacking this He has no pleasure in being a human at the moment
For Hecuba!
Whats Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?
Hamlet- same scene where he has observed the player crying
-The break in rhythm allows Hamlet to collect his thoughts
-He likes he keeps getting cast in roles
-He wants to confirm the truth before he acts because he is very concerned about the consequences of his actions- however this angers him because he is unable to do anything
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. To die, to sleep
No more, and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to.
Hamlet: when Claudius and Polonius are spying on him
-is it a soliloquy or is Hamlet acting?
-Is it a sincere meditation or projection of instability?
-Thinks of the consequences of death: what will happen after- could be worse than this life
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as life the town crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently, for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o’erdoing Termagant. It out-Herods Herod. Pray you avoid it.
Hamlets theory on acting: telling the players
-naturalistic: should show us the truth, not confuse us
-acting becomes a metaphor for actual action
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide,
And mermaidlike awhile they bore her up,
Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds,
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element. But long it could be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.
Gertrude describing Ophelia's death:
-Similar to how Marcus when he sees Lavinia- does not rush to help her
-Doesnt necessarily committ suicide but might have let herself die or did not try that hard to save herself
Is not parchment made of sheepskins?
Hamlet to Horatio- when observing the gravediggers.
-We write on dead animals, therefore death has a material nature to it
Why sir, his hide is so tanned with his trade that a will keep out water a great while, and your water is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body. Here’s a skull now hath lien you I’ th’ earth three and twenty years.
Gravedigger to Hamlet-
Hamlet had asked why some bodies last longer than others
-Tanners work with chemicals, like Shakespeares father: shows Shakespeare might have also been thinking of his deceased father when he wrote this play
-Recyclical nature of death (decay into earth- what gives us life (water) decays us)
What ceremony else?


Her obsequies have been far enlarged
As we have warranty. 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 players,
Flints and pebbles should be thrown on her.
Yet here she is allowed her virgin crants,
Her maiden strewments, and the bringing home
Of bell and burial.
Laertes is wondering why Ophelia has such a poor funeral.
-The priest responds that because it is thought Ophelia committed suicide, she cannot have a proper burial.
-Hamlet luckily had his death validated by Fortinbras- even though Hamlet knew he could have died but let providence decide- he had a full military burial
Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting
That would not let me sleep. Methought I lay
Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly,
And praised be rashness for it – let us know,
Our indiscretion sometime serves us well
When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us
There’s a divinity that shapes our ends
Hamlet to Horatio: before the duel, explaining to Horatio all that has happened to him
-He has decided that fate is in his control
There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not o come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it wil lcome. The readiness is all. Since no man knows aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes? Let be.
He is going to meet his destiny: he is at peace, allows himself to be pulled along.