Hamlet on the deceit of villainy | ‘One may smile, and smile, and be a villain’ |
Claudius on makeup on harlots | ‘The harlot’s cheek beautied with plastering art’ |
Beauty’s power can more easily change honesty into a brothel keeper than the power of honesty can change a beauty into honesty’s likeness | ‘For the power of Beauty will sooner/transform Honesty from what it is to a bawd than the/force of honesty can translate Beauty into his likeness’ |
The deception of women through makeup | ‘God hath given you one face and you make yourselves/another’ |
Hamlet sees through R+G into the reason (not in detail however) of their visitation | ‘I know the good King and Queen have sent for you’ |
Hamlet muses over the purpose of acting | ‘The purpose of playing…/was and is to hold as ’twere/the mirror up to Nature…’ |
Asking Horatio to observe Claudius with the intention of comparing their observations afterwards. Obsessing over the king’s ‘seeming’ – constantly aware of Claudius’s pretence | ‘we will both our judgements join/In censure of his seeming’ |
Ophelia to Hamlet after he tells her he never loved her | ‘I was the more deceived’ |
After Gertrude tells Hamlet how upset he ‘seems’ about his father’s death | ”Seems’, madam – nay it is, I know not ‘seems” |
Hamlet Quotes – Appearance vs Reality
July 24, 2019