| “what forgeries you may please. marry, none so rank as may dishonor him” | POLONIUS TO REYNALDO-manipulating reynaldo to spy on Laertes out of protection of his own self image -doesn’t want him to say anything that will hurt his reputation |
| “As are companions noted and most known, youth to liberty” | POLONIUS TO REYNALDO-gives reynaldo permission to discredit Laertes-things that young people may do when given freedom |
| ” you bate of falsehood takes this carp of truth” | POLONIUS TO REYNALDO-metaphor -ploy to get truth of the matter |
| “my lord as i was seeing in my closet, lord hamlet, with his doublet unbraced” | OPHELIA TO POLONIUS-periodic sentences-emotional distress |
| “Mad for thy Love?” | POLONIUS TO OPHLIA -does not comfort her-jumps to conclusions -not father-like, self centered |
| “And with his other hand thus o’er his brow, he falls to such perusal of my face as he would draw it, long stayed he so” | OPHELIA TO POLONIUS-exhortation of pain -hamlet leaves the room looking back at her -different interpretations |
| “That hath made him mad” | POLONIUS TO OPHLIA -leads to further plot development of the play -justifies his decision |
| “this must be known, which being kept close might move more grief to hide than hate to utter love” | POLONIUS TO OPHLIA -slant rhyme & Couplet – cause more trouble if kept secret |
| “what should it be more than his fathers death that thus hath put him so much from th’ understanding himself” | CLAUDIUS TO ROS & GUILD- doesn’t want to help hamlet, just wants to make sure he isn’t onto him |
| ” you visitation shall receive such thanks as fits a kings remembrance” | GERTRUDE TO ROS & GUILD-bribing them |
| “Dear Rosencrantz and guildenstern” | POLONIUS TO ROS & GUILD-king isn’t interested in them at all just what they can do for them-doesn’t separate them |
| “Heavens make our presence and our practices, pleasant and helpful to him” | GUILD TO CLAUDIUS AND GERTRUDE -apostrophe |
| “My news shall be fruit to the that great feast” | POLONIUS TO CLADIUS-wants the ambassadors to speak of fortinbras and then his news can be like the dessert |
| “And at our more considered time well read” | CLUADIUS TO VOLTEMAND – wants to talk about the big news it later because he’s obsessed with hamlet |
| “therefore, since the brevity of thy should is wit” | POLONIUS TO CLAUD AND GERT-drags it on after saying briefness is important |
| “More matter, less art” | GERT TO POLONIUS-queen asks him to get to the point |
| “to the celestial and my shouls idol, the most beautified ophelia” | POLONIUS TO GET AND CLAUD -hamlets letter -betrays daughter by reading it |
| “What do you think of me” | POLONIUS TO CLAUD-wants affirmation |
| “I would fain prove so, but what might you think when i have seen the hot love on this wing” | POLONIUS TO GERT AND CLAUD-anaphora |
| “Excellent well, your a fish monger’ | HAMLET TO POLONIUS-antic disposition-acts crazy but manages to insult him |
| “Have you a daughter”.. “Let her not walk in the sun, conception is a blessing but as your daughter may conceive” | HAMLET TO POLONIUS-dont let her see the truth -play on words □ May be suggesting let her not be near me □ Hamlets way of teling polonius that she may be pregnant |
| Why does hamlet result to pros and not iambic pentameter? | – distinguishes himself from polonius- not speaking in a well ejected manner to seem crazy – so polonius does the same in return |
| “how pregnant sometimes his replies are” | POLONIUS -aside with hamlet -pregnant- meaningful |
| “You cannot sire, take form me anything i will more willingly part withal- except my life, except my life, except my life” | HAMLET TO POLONIUS – tricolon |
| “Then i would you were so honest a man” | HAMLET TO POLONIUS – |
| ” happy, in that we are not over happy, in fortunes cap we are not the very button” | GUILD TO HAMLET – personification |
| ” My excellent goo friends, How doubt thou Guildentern. Ah rosencrantz! God lads, how do you both?” | HAMLET TO GUILD AND ROS-switches from you to thou-shows he’s skeptical -hamlet speak in pros to get on their level because they aren’t ver intelligent -class distinction |
| “Faith her privates we” | GUILD TO HAMLET – speaking about the female body -lowerclass, common folk – hamlet goes along with it |
| “There is nothing neither good or bad but thinning makes it so, to me it is prison” | HAMLET TO ROS AND GUILD-hamlet recognizes his own potential for overthinking -talks about a person perception |
| “to what end my lord” | ROSEN TO HAMLET -We know hamlets upset because their friendship has been tarnished- |
| ” What a piece of work is a man” | HAMLET TO ROS AND GUILD – monologue -philisophical -prose discusses man and women – rosen and guild have no understanding of the philosophy |
| “the actors are on their way” | ROSEN TO HAMLET -important plot development -play within play |
| “I am but mad north north west. when the wind is southerly i know a hawk from a handsaw” | HAMLET TO ROS AND GUILD-warning them of his behavior |
| “the actors have arrived my lord” | POLONIUS TO HAMLET -old news wants to make a deal of it |
| “Oh jeptha judge of Israel” | HAMLET TO POL- allusion to biblical story -Jeptha sacrifices his daughter to win the battle – hamlet’s way condemning Polonius for usin Ophelia, bt Polonius doesn’t get it-(insisting she break off the relationship) |
| Why does hamlet speak in pros when he addresses the players? | – bringing himself to their level not condescendingly |
| “come give us a taste of your quality, come a passionate speech” | HAMLET TO PLAYERS |
| “the rugged pyrus” | HAMLET TO PLAYERS – mythological illusion |
| “this is too long” | POLONIUS TO HAMLET – |
| “it shall to the barber with tis beard- prithee say on, he’s for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he sleeps. say on. come on huebeca” | HAMLET TO POLONIUS AND FIRST PLAYER – hamlet is stabbing at Polonius again-tells them not to pay attention to Polonius |
| “that great baby you see there is not yet out of swaddling clouts” | HAM TO ROS AND GUILD- big baby is still in diapers- speaking of polonius |
| “So after Pyrrhus pause aroused vengeance sets him a new work” | HAMLET TO POLONIUS-mythological illusion |
| “look where he has not turned his color and has tears in his eyes- prithee no more” | POLONIUS TO HAMLET -entrhalled that he bodies it so intently-almost too dramatic -wants actor to stop |
| “for they are abstract and brief chronicles of time” | HAMLET TO POLONIUS- saying that what they say in their act will later go down in history-commentary on art |
| “oh what rogue and peasant slave i am” | HAMLET -soliloquy-curses himself, says he’s a lowlife |
| “Had he the motive and que for passion that i have?” | HAMLET s – wondering what the actor would preform if his feelings were genuine |
| “he would drown the stage with tears and cleave the general ear with horrid speech” | HAMLET s-hyperbole |
| “and cleave the general ear with horrid speech” | HAMLET s-synedochy- people wouldn’t want to hear anymore |
| ” who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? plucks off my beard and blows it in my face” | HAMLET s- invasions himself being confused that he hasn’t avenged his fathers death |
| ” a dammed defeat was made” | HAMLET s- alliteration – sound of anger |
| “i am pigion livered and lack gull | HAMLET s- calling himself a coward |
| “I should have fatted all the region kites with this slaves awful” | HAMLET s- he would have killed claudis and let the birds eat him -connotation of slave |
| ” about my brain– Hum i have heard the guilty creators sitting at a play…” | HAMLET s- ceasura – they become nervous and get a guilty conscience |
| “Why what an ass i am, this is most brave, that i , the son of my father murdered prompted to my revenge by heaven…” | HAMLET s- recognizes his short comings |
| ” the plays the thing where in ill catch the conscious of the king” | HAMLET S- couplet- c alliteration- determination-theme of action |
Hamlet act 2 quotes and meanings
July 20, 2019