| Hamlet no value in life | I do not set my life in a pin’s fee |
| (Marcellus) something is rotten | Something is rotten in the state of Denmark |
| The ghost tells Hamlet | Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.But this most foul, strange and unnatural. |
| Hamlet tells ghost he will be hasty in his revenge | ‘With wings as swiftAs meditation or the thoughts of loveMay sweep to my revenge’ |
| The ghost reveals that Claudius killed him | The serpent that did sting thy father’s lifeNow wears his crown. |
| Ghost on Claudius | Incestuous, that adulterate beast, |
| Ghost on Claudius and Gertrude’s relationship | Won to his shameful lustThe will of my most seeming virtuous queen. |
| How Claudius kills ghost | Sleeping within my orchard, My custom always of the afternoon,With juice of cursèd hebenon in a vial,And in the porches of my ears did pour |
| All that Claudius took from ghost | This was I, sleeping, by a brother’s handOf life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatchedIn the blossoms of my sinWith all my imperfections on my head |
| Hamlet Revenge my death | If thou has nature in thee, bear it not;Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch of luxury and damnèd incest. |
| Leave your mother alone | Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contriveAgainst thy mother aught. Leave her to heavenAnd to those thorns that in her bosom lodgeTo prick and sting her. |
| Hamlet won’t think of anything else | From the table of my memory I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records And thy commandments all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain |
| Hamlet on Gertrude | O most pernicious woman! |
| Hamlet on Claudius appearance vs reality | O villain, villain, smiling, damnèd villain!That one may smile and smile, and be a villain; |
| antic disposition | I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on |
Hamlet act 1 scene 4 & 5
September 1, 2019