Marcellus on seeing hamlet follow the ghost | “Somethings rotten in the state of denmark” |
Kings prayer | “O, my offense is rank, it smells like heaven” |
Hamlet against gertrude | “Takes off the rose from the fair forehead of an innocent love and sets a blister there” |
Laertes advice to ophelia | “The canker galls to the infants of the spring/so oft before their buttons to be disclosed” |
All are sinners in hamlet – like the fall, need to cleanse from sin | “Full of bread. With all his crimes broad blown” |
Ghost description of murder -garden of eden | “Juice of cursèd hebenon in a vial/and in the porches of my ears did pour/the leperous distilment” |
Theme introducedby fransisco in opening moments of the play | “Tis bitter cold/ and i am sick at heart” |
laetres about claudius death | “He is justly served/it is poison tempered by himself” |
Claudius being a snake – ghosts murder garden of eden | “Sleeping in my orchard/a serpent stung me -“ |
Similar themes between hamlet amd garden of eden | Garden and snake are recurrent images |
Hamket feels that the garden (of the world) has become choked with weeds – Genesis puts this down to humankinds corruption | “Do not spread the compost on the weeds/to make them ranker” |
Poison, corruption and death in hamlet
September 30, 2019