| (Scene 2)What majesty should be, what duty is,/Why day is day, night is night, and time is time./Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit/And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,/I will be brief | Polonius says this to Gertrude talking about how crazy Hamlet is and how to find out why he is crazy |
| Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t. | Polonius is saying this to himself when asking Hamlet to leave |
| Why, then ’tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so./ | Hamlet is saying this to Rosencrantz and Guildenstein about how Denmark is a prison |
| What a piece of work is a man!/How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and/admirable! In action how like and angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the/world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is thus quintessence of dust? Man/delights not me-no nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so./ | Hamlet is saying this to Rosencrantz and Guildenstein about humans and how humans are capable of things |
| The play’s the thing/Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King | Hamlet is saying this to himself about the actor and his fathers murder |
Hamlet Act II
August 16, 2019