“These indeed ‘seem,’/For they are actions that a man might
play;/ But I have that within which passes show,/ These put the
trappings and the suits of woe.” (ii, 86-89)
Speaker: Hamlet
Significance: I’m not just seeming to be sad, I am
“Frailty, thy name is woman!” (ii, 150)
Speaker: Hamlet
Significance: Fickle, weak women, establishes the theme of frail women
“This above all: to thine own self be true,/And it must follow, as
the night the day,/ Thou canst not then be false to any man.” (iii,
84-86)
Speaker: Polonius
Significance: Be yourself and don’t pretend, irony though becuase he himself is being fake
“(As I perchance hereafter shall think meet/To put an antic
disposition on.)” (v, 191-192)
Speaker: Hamlet
Significance: He’s going to pretend to be crazy to use it as an excuse for killing his uncle
“The time is out of joint. O cursed spite/That ever I was
born to set it right!” (v, 210-211)
Speaker: hamlet
Significance: His whole life now revolves around revenge and he feels trapped
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in ‘t.”
Speaker: Polonius
Significance: There’s meaning behind Hamlet’s words even though he seems crazy
“The play’s the thing/Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king”
Speaker: Hamley
Significance: He will use the play to get inside and understand the king’s true thoughts and whether or not he’s guilty
. “To be or not to be-that is the question…” (i, 64)
Speaker:
Speaker: Hamlet
Significance: He’s asking himself whether staying alive or dying would be better because his circumstances are so hard.
“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”
Speaker: Claudius
Sig: when someone who is highly ranked or looked upon goes crazy they need to be closely watched becuase they have the resources and capabilities to do something bad
“Give me that man/ That is not passion’s slave…”
Speaker: Hamlet
Sig: Hamlet wants a person of reason instead of someone who is controlled by emotion, this is Horatio.
“‘Tis brief… As woman’s love…”
Speaker: hamlet
Sig: hamlet compares the length of the prologue to a woman’s love as it is very short and confusing
“The lady doth protest too much methinks.”
Speaker: Gertrude
Sig: The actor of the queen is overdoing it, but irony is she isn’t.
“Diseases desperate grown,/By desperate appliances are
relieved…”
Speaker: Claudius
Sig: He thinks hamlet has a terminal disease of insanity, which this extreme disease requires extreme treatment, sending hamlet to london
“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio…”
Speaker: Hamlet
Sig: who was once important is now worthless, the fleeting nature of wordly status
.“For like the hectic in my blood he rages,/And thou must cure
me.”
Speaker: Claudius
Sig: He wants to kill hamlet, becuase hamlet is making him go mad, so he wants him gone so he can return to sanity
