| A2 S2 Funeral meats | Thrift, thrift Horatio! The funeral baked meats will coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. |
| A3S4 On killing Polonius-colloquial-black comedy | This man shall set me packing/ I’ll lug the guts into the neighbour room |
| A1S2 Cl wedding speech | with mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage |
| A1S2 Cl wedding speech 2 | with one auspicious and one drooping eye |
| A1S2 Gertrude wedding advice | Do not forever with thy veiled lids/ seek for thy father in the dust |
| Alexander- we’re all equal in death-drunk Danes | Alexander died…Alexander returneth into dust…and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer barrel |
| Hamlet’s being a sarc. | O heavens! die two months ago and not forgotten yet? |
| A1S2 Hamlet wishes that God would allow suicide | Or that the everlasting had not fixed/ His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter |
| A3S1 The most famous soliloquy!-conradiction “take arms” | To be, or not to be, that is the question/ Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and sorrows of outrageous fortune/ Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them |
| Gertrude romanticizes Ophelia’s suicide-pathetic fallacy-doesn’t blame her | Fell in the weeping brook/ Her clothes spread wide/ And mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up |
| Spurio-similar to Hamlet’s reaction to killing Polonius | Old dad dead? |
| A3S5 Shows how bloodthirsty Vindice is | As fast as they peep up, let’s cut ’em down |
| A3S6 Vindice gives some handy life advice | Nothing is sure in mortality but mortality |
Mortality in Hamlet
August 11, 2019