| Summarizes plot. One bad deed leads toMany – disease imagery. Corrupt leader and country. | Something is rotten in the state of denmark |
| Hamlet is of no value to himself, denmark or the audience without his desire to kill claudius | My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth |
| Downfall of every character. Irrational acts are against nature. Fiction = u define your own reality. Mythical figure comparisonS. | But in a fiction, a dream of passion, could force his soul to his own deceit |
| C’s change from ambiguous evil symbol to morally complex human. Suggestion god knows of his crime. Only soliloquy not done by H | My offence is so rank it smells to heaven |
| Actions driven by thoughts. H interprets his life as he wants to see it like all other characters. Eases their consciences. Nature imagery bc nature cannot be morally labelled | There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so |
| The ghost is an evil thing | The devil have power to assume a pleasing shape |
| Hamlet’s final words | The rest is silence |
| Gertrude realizes claudius’ true nature before her death | ‘The drink! The drink!’ |
| Hamlet is a hand of punishment teaching of right and wrong in a religious sense | Scourge and minster |
| Horatio is the storyteller | report me and my cause aright to the unsatisfied |
| C questions H’s prolonged mourning when he is feeling guilty himself | Why do clouds still hang over you? |
| Hamlets POV as C as pure evil, which we later question | A little more than kin, and less than kind |
| Death. Hamlet is both afraid of death and doubts his own religion | The undiscovered country |
| C’s thoughts turn into actions and feed on the happiness of those around him | Let my evil thoughts feed, even on the pith of life |
| Hamlet has self-doubt and a lack of self worth | Oh, that this too sullied flesh would melt! |
| Hanlet has to kill Claudius eventually but his delay allows for evil to spread | O cursed spite that i was ever born to set it right |
| C attempts to normalize his actions to solidify the security of his position as king | Our sometimes sister, now our queen |
| C self confidence and justification of marriage, openly discussing the moral ambiguity of marrying Gertrude | Great desire hath fought with greater woe |
| C struggles with guilt but still cannot give up his power | Forgive my foul murder? That cannot be, since i am still possessed of those effects for which i did the murder |
English Hamlet Power quotes
July 15, 2019