• Disease, Rotting, and Decay – examples of this are shown through quotes from the text. -In scene two, Hamlet first thinks of suicide, “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! O God! O God!”, signifying the beginning of his slow mental decay.
-In scene four, Marcellus says to Horatio, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
• Actors and the theatre – highlights deception, illusion, and role playing of actors in the play
-In scene five, hamlet feigns madness when he is visited by the Ghost to hide his suspicion
Act II
• Incest and incestuous desires
-In scene two, page fifteen, Hamlet refers to his mother and his uncle as “aunt-mother” and “uncle-father.”
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/ These words like daggers in mine ears.” Gertrude refuses to listen to the truth about Claudius.
- Also in scene four, Hamlet says to Gertrude, “What devil was't / That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind? / Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight, / Ears without hands or eyes.” Hamlets states that even a person with no senses would not make the same mistakes she had.
• Disease, Rotting, Decay
-In scene three, Claudius states, “O, my offence is rank / it smells to Heaven.” He is speaking of his brother’s murder for which he as responsible of.
Act IV
• Misogyny – hatred of
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d
His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God!”, signifying the beginning of his slow mental decay.
-In scene four, Marcellus says to Horatio, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
• Actors and the theatre – highlights deception, illusion, and role playing of actors in the play
-In scene five, hamlet feigns madness when he is visited by the Ghost to hide his suspicion
Act II
• Incest and incestuous desires
-In scene two, page fifteen, Hamlet refers to his mother and his uncle as “aunt-mother” and “uncle-father.”
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/ These words like daggers in mine ears.” Gertrude refuses to listen to the truth about Claudius.
- Also in scene four, Hamlet says to Gertrude, “What devil was't / That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind? / Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight, / Ears without hands or eyes.” Hamlets states that even a person with no senses would not make the same mistakes she had.
• Disease, Rotting, Decay
-In scene three, Claudius states, “O, my offence is rank / it smells to Heaven.” He is speaking of his brother’s murder for which he as responsible of.
Act IV
• Misogyny – hatred of