"King: How is it that clouds still hang on you? Hamlet: Not so, my lord; I am too much in the sun" (I.2.68-69)
This quote is significant to the play because it shows Hamlet's grief for the death of his father and shows the King's lack of sympathy for the situation in which his own brother died. His lack of care shows the reader that he may be not be king for an innocent reason.
"Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand/ Of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatched,/ Cut off, even in the blossoms of my sin,/ Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled,/ No reck'ning made, but sent to my account/ With all my imperfections on my head" (1/4/line 81-86).
This quote is important to the book because the Ghost is explaining the true story of his death and how he is the spirit of Hamlet's father. He was murdered by poision being poured into his ear and running throughout his entire body. He was murdered before he was able to confess to his sins, which condemed him to Purgatory. He wants Hamlet to avenge the Ghost's murderer and for Hamlet to leave his mother alone.
"Fie, 'tis a fault to heaven,/ A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,/ To reason most absurd, whose common theme/ Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried,/ From the first corse till he that died today,/ "This must be so." We pray you, throw to earth/ This unprevailing woe and think of us/ As a father..." -King Claudius (1.2.105-112)
This quote from King Claudius is what first introduces the audience to the idea that he may have killed his brother, the old King Hamlet. Claudius says "the first corse," in this case meaning the first recorded death in the bible: that of Abel, killed out of jealousy by his brother Cain. This alludes to the fact that prehaps Clauduis had a hand in King Hamlet's death, which we later find out is true. This is significant to the play because it is the starting point for the rest of the plotline. The knowledge that Claudius killed King Hamlet is what spurs Prince hamlet into action and drives the rest of the story. The rest of the quote involves Claudius trying to convince Hamlet to think of him like a father, which, because Hamlet is digusted by him, will never happen.
Ghost: Oh, horrible, oh, horrible, most horrible! / If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not. / Let not the royal bed of Denmark be / A couch for luxury and damnèd incest. / But howsoever thou pursuest this act, / Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive / Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven /And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge /To prick and sting her. (I.5.87-95)
This is an important quote to the book because the Ghost just revealed that he was killed by his own brother so he wants to get revenge, to the King. The Ghost, which is the dead King Hamlet, wants his son, Hamlet, to go after King Claudius and kill him. Also, the Ghost does not want Hamlet to do anything to his mother so she can end in heaven. This foreshadows that the rest of Hamlet is going to be about Hamlet trying to kill King Claudius.
Lexy Kaftan "Hic et ubiique? Then we'll shift our ground. Come hither, gentleman,and lay your hands upon my sword. Swear by my sword Never to speak of this what you have heard." (1.5.151)
This is important because the three guys said they wouldnt say anything of this, and to not tell other or let on to others what hamlet is up to. Hamlet used the sword to make the swearing a divine oath. Hamlet basically tells his friends that he is going to avenge his father's death.
"Now, Hamlet, hear./'Tis given out that, sleeping in my Orchard,/A serpent stung me. So the whole ear of Denmark/Is by a forged process of my death/Rankly abused. But know, thou noble youth,/The serpent that did sting thy father's life/Now wears his crown." (1.5.41-47)
This is an important quote because it shows the main theme of the book and what to expect. It connects all the characters by showing that Hamlet's father was murdered by his Uncle and it hints the reader that Hamlet will try to revenge his father's death in the rest of the book. It draws in the readers interest and is necessary to know to understand the rest of the book.
"Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable...I will speak to thee." - Hamlet (1.4.44-49)
This quote begs a question that will likely recur throughout the play. Is this spirit, in the image of the late King Hamlet, a "spirit of health?" Does he seek to use young Hamlet, in his grief and angst, to protect the health of Denmark by purging her cancer, the treacherous Claudius? Or is he a "goblin damned?" Perhaps his goal is to push Hamlet down a journey of taking an eye for an eye that will merely blind himself to reason and rationality and ultimately result in his downfall (this isn't called "The Comedy of Hamlet," after all). Only time can answer this question...or perhaps even time would be confounded and we'd have to come up with our own conclusions.
“This above al: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” (I.3.84-86)
Polonius ends his soliloquy in Act 1 Scene 3 with this bit of advice for his son Laertes who is leaving shortly for college. During this soliloquy, Polonius names many wise pieces of advice that are still used today. Although this specific quote embedded in the end of his prolific speech is most ironic to the story of Hamlet because for the point we are at in the story, we are able to deduce the idea of King Hamlet being murdered and not simply dying with nature as the cause. We are able to begin to foreshadow the murder of King Hamlet by his brother, Claudis. Making this quote extremely significant to the story as a whole and allowing us to further predict a terrible fate for Claudis.
Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God, God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! (I.2.133-138)
This is the first of seven soliloquies presented by Hamlet in the novel. He starts by saying how he could commit suicide, but cannot because God made a rule against it. This shows that Hamlet is both very religious, and that he is depressed. He continues on by saying how pointless life is, showing that Hamlet has a little bit of a crazy side. This makes me think what might happen in the future and if Hamlet’s depression gets too out of hand.
"Perhaps he loves you now,/ And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch/ The virtue of his will; but you must fear,/ His greatness is weighed, his will is not his own,/ For he himself is subject to his birth." (I.3.17-20)
In this scene, Laertes is warning his sister Ophelia on what he thinks Hamlet's intentions are with her. He warns that his love is false and he only wants her for a short time, not the extended love he seems to promise her.
"My father's brother, but no more like my father than I to Hercules." (I.2 157-158)
While speaking to himself in a soliloquy, Hamlet compares his uncle to his dead father, who was supposedly killed by his brother. Hamlet states that his uncle is "...No more like my father than I to Hercules." From this statement, the audience learns that not only are the dead king and his brother vastly different, but also a lot about Hamlet's character. Hercules was a greek god of great strength and courage, which means that Hamlet does not possess those qualities.
"Of impious stubborness. 'Tis unmanly grief./ It shows a will most incorrect in heaven,/ a heart unfortified, a mind impatient,/ an understanding simple and unschooled." (I.2 98- 101)
While the king speaks to his step son Hamlet he accuses Hamlet's actions as unmanly and disrespecting God because death happens and if "God wanted" the old king to die then Hamlet should not mourn so much but rejoice that he has been taken to heaven. I find it very interesting how in most of Shakespeares plays that the manliness of a character is always attacked such as in Macbeth. This whole duty of being a "manly man" seems to be the only way a character is suppose to act but in this case we know that the king is just trying to get Hamlet to move on with no real care for him at all.
"Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder." (I.5.31)
This is when the ghost of king Hamlet was talking to his son prince Hamlet about why he was there and what happened to him. King Hamlet told him that he was murdered by his own brother and he said that it was foul and unnatural because family shouldn't be killing family they should work together to conquer other people. This also really foreshadowed what's going to happen the rest of the book and what the plot is probably going to be about. It also helps explain why the marriage happened so soon after king Hamlet died, and from what it sounds like is that it was all planned before he was even dead.
"For Hamlet and the trifling of his favor,/hold it a fashion and a toy in blood,/a violet in the youth of primy nature,/forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,/the perfume and suppliance of a minute,/no more" (I.3.6-11).
In these lines Laertes is talking to Ophelia about Hamlet. Laertes is saying that the relationship is only a temporary one and is an "amorous flirtation". He also tells her that her relationship is sweet now but it will not last because Laertes knows that Hamlet is not free to choose who he wants to marry if he wants to become King. Laertes also knows that Hamlet will most likely not choose Ophelia because she cannot bring him into power and that their father Polonius doesn't think Hamlet is good enough for Ophelia and he is very untrustworthy.
"a little ere the mightiest Julius fell, the graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead did squeak and gibber in Roman streets; as stars with trains of fire and dews of blood disasters in the sun; and the moist star...As harbingers preceding still the fates and prologue to the omen coming on…" (1.1.126-135)
Here Horatio is talking to Barnardo and Marcellus about how these omens bring terrible things to follow. This is a huge part of the play because it shows the foreshadowing of what has to follow this ghost and it will not bring good things. Disaster will come upon the land and the reader can expect things of disaster to unfold.
"In what particular thought to work I know not, But in the gross and scope of mine opinion This bodes some strange eruption to our state." (I.I.78-80)
In this quote, Horatio is talking with Marcellus and Barnardo about the ghost they have seen twice during their night watches. Specificly Horatio is saying that he believes this apparation is foreshadowing something terrible(a strange eruption) in the state of Denmark. This quote is significant to the play because it tells the reader that the old king has returned to warn the people of Denmark about something in the near future.
Erik Enselman Murder most foul, as in the best it is, But this most foul, strange, and unnatural. (Ghost)
1.5.33,34
This is significant to the play because Hamlet find out that his father was murdered by Hamlets uncle in an unsual and unnatural way. Hamlet now has some type of proof that his uncle did this just to take over the crown. Also, Hamlet beleives his friends that they saw a ghost of his father, King Hamlet and now he has seen it with his own eyes.
“‘Tis an unweeded garden / That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely. That it should come {to this:} / But two months dead – nay, not so much, not two. / So excellent a king, that was to this / Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother…” (I. 2. 139-144).
This quote is significant to the play because Hamlet claims his father, King Hamlet, is most like the sun god Hyperion, while his uncle, King Claudius, is like an inappropriate, goat-like satyr. This also suggests that Claudius had something to do with King Hamlet’s death. The beginning of the quote shows Hamlet’s pessimistic side because he sees the earth as being “rank and gross.”
"It is an honest ghost" -Hamlet 1.5.154 "Well said old mole." -Hamlet 1.5.183
Both of these short quotes were said by Hamlet after the Ghost leaves when Marcellus and Horiato finally catch up to Hamlet. The first quote is talking about how Hamlet says that the Ghost, who is the Ghost of Hamlet Sr, is a ghost from Heaven and therefore a trustworthy ghost. Yet later on, when the Ghost is telling Horiato and Marcellus to "Swear!", Hamlet jokingly calls him a mole, which is more truthful as the Ghost, while trustworthy, is actually stuck in purgatory and not in Heaven. This would be more significant if Horiato or Marcellus caught it and put two and two together though.
"Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows,/ Why this same strict and most observant watch/ so nightly toils the subject of the land,/ and why such daily cast of brazen cannon/ and foreign mart fro implements of war,/ why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task/ does not divide the Sunday from the week./ Why might be toward that this sweaty haste/ Doth make the night joint laborer with the day?/" (1.1.82-89)
Marcellus is the one talking in these lines and his questions are next answered by Horatio in the next couple of lines. That the Norwegians are preparing to invade Denmark to retrieve once conquered land and Denmark is simply preparing for that invasion. But the important part of these lines is that they are more informative towards the tone of the play and the possible tensions between characters may be higher throughout the play. Then they might be prone to making decisions they normally wouldn't make in a time of peace for example.
"Ay, that incestuous, that adultrate beast/With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts/O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power/So to seduce!-won to his shameful lust/The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen." (I.5.49-53)
This quote said by old king Hamlet'd ghost to young Hamlet is significant to the play because it is where Hamlet's father tells him that his brother betrayed him. It's very important because old king Hamlet states that his brother killed him so he could seduce his wife and become king. This is a crucial part in the play because it is the feul to the fire of revenge that is building up inside young Hamlet. This just confirms young Hamlets doubts and suspicions of his uncle or step father.
"Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole" Act 1, scene 5. line 68.
This quote is really important to the play because it foreshadows what the whole play is about. It is the ghost talking about how he was murdered by his brother, Hamlets uncle, and the whole play is about how Hamlet seeks revenge for his father.
Kiera Wesley
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"King: How is it that clouds still hang on you?
Hamlet: Not so, my lord; I am too much in the sun" (I.2.68-69)
This quote is significant to the play because it shows Hamlet's grief for the death of his father and shows the King's lack of sympathy for the situation in which his own brother died. His lack of care shows the reader that he may be not be king for an innocent reason.
Anna Billmaier
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"Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand/ Of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatched,/ Cut off, even in the blossoms of my sin,/ Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled,/ No reck'ning made, but sent to my account/ With all my imperfections on my head" (1/4/line 81-86).
This quote is important to the book because the Ghost is explaining the true story of his death and how he is the spirit of Hamlet's father. He was murdered by poision being poured into his ear and running throughout his entire body. He was murdered before he was able to confess to his sins, which condemed him to Purgatory. He wants Hamlet to avenge the Ghost's murderer and for Hamlet to leave his mother alone.
Jenn Hergert
ReplyDelete"Fie, 'tis a fault to heaven,/ A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,/ To reason most absurd, whose common theme/ Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried,/ From the first corse till he that died today,/ "This must be so." We pray you, throw to earth/ This unprevailing woe and think of us/ As a father..." -King Claudius (1.2.105-112)
This quote from King Claudius is what first introduces the audience to the idea that he may have killed his brother, the old King Hamlet. Claudius says "the first corse," in this case meaning the first recorded death in the bible: that of Abel, killed out of jealousy by his brother Cain. This alludes to the fact that prehaps Clauduis had a hand in King Hamlet's death, which we later find out is true. This is significant to the play because it is the starting point for the rest of the plotline. The knowledge that Claudius killed King Hamlet is what spurs Prince hamlet into action and drives the rest of the story. The rest of the quote involves Claudius trying to convince Hamlet to think of him like a father, which, because Hamlet is digusted by him, will never happen.
Christine Nafziger
ReplyDeleteGhost: Oh, horrible, oh, horrible, most horrible! / If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not. / Let not the royal bed of Denmark be / A couch for luxury and damnèd incest. / But howsoever thou pursuest this act, / Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive / Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven /And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge /To prick and sting her. (I.5.87-95)
This is an important quote to the book because the Ghost just revealed that he was killed by his own brother so he wants to get revenge, to the King. The Ghost, which is the dead King Hamlet, wants his son, Hamlet, to go after King Claudius and kill him. Also, the Ghost does not want Hamlet to do anything to his mother so she can end in heaven. This foreshadows that the rest of Hamlet is going to be about Hamlet trying to kill King Claudius.
Lexy Kaftan
ReplyDelete"Hic et ubiique? Then we'll shift our ground. Come hither, gentleman,and lay your hands upon my sword. Swear by my sword Never to speak of this what you have heard." (1.5.151)
This is important because the three guys said they wouldnt say anything of this, and to not tell other or let on to others what hamlet is up to. Hamlet used the sword to make the swearing a divine oath. Hamlet basically tells his friends that he is going to avenge his father's death.
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ReplyDeleteLeslee Fall
ReplyDelete"Now, Hamlet, hear./'Tis given out that, sleeping in my Orchard,/A serpent stung me. So the whole ear of Denmark/Is by a forged process of my death/Rankly abused. But know, thou noble youth,/The serpent that did sting thy father's life/Now wears his crown."
(1.5.41-47)
This is an important quote because it shows the main theme of the book and what to expect. It connects all the characters by showing that Hamlet's father was murdered by his Uncle and it hints the reader that Hamlet will try to revenge his father's death in the rest of the book. It draws in the readers interest and is necessary to know to understand the rest of the book.
Derek Decker
ReplyDelete"Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable...I will speak to thee." - Hamlet (1.4.44-49)
This quote begs a question that will likely recur throughout the play. Is this spirit, in the image of the late King Hamlet, a "spirit of health?" Does he seek to use young Hamlet, in his grief and angst, to protect the health of Denmark by purging her cancer, the treacherous Claudius? Or is he a "goblin damned?" Perhaps his goal is to push Hamlet down a journey of taking an eye for an eye that will merely blind himself to reason and rationality and ultimately result in his downfall (this isn't called "The Comedy of Hamlet," after all). Only time can answer this question...or perhaps even time would be confounded and we'd have to come up with our own conclusions.
Sarah Hale:)
ReplyDelete“This above al: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” (I.3.84-86)
Polonius ends his soliloquy in Act 1 Scene 3 with this bit of advice for his son Laertes who is leaving shortly for college. During this soliloquy, Polonius names many wise pieces of advice that are still used today. Although this specific quote embedded in the end of his prolific speech is most ironic to the story of Hamlet because for the point we are at in the story, we are able to deduce the idea of King Hamlet being murdered and not simply dying with nature as the cause. We are able to begin to foreshadow the murder of King Hamlet by his brother, Claudis. Making this quote extremely significant to the story as a whole and allowing us to further predict a terrible fate for Claudis.
Katie Martens
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Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God, God!
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world! (I.2.133-138)
This is the first of seven soliloquies presented by Hamlet in the novel. He starts by saying how he could commit suicide, but cannot because God made a rule against it. This shows that Hamlet is both very religious, and that he is depressed. He continues on by saying how pointless life is, showing that Hamlet has a little bit of a crazy side. This makes me think what might happen in the future and if Hamlet’s depression gets too out of hand.
Kirsten Zoba
ReplyDelete"Perhaps he loves you now,/ And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch/ The virtue of his will; but you must fear,/ His greatness is weighed, his will is not his own,/ For he himself is subject to his birth." (I.3.17-20)
In this scene, Laertes is warning his sister Ophelia on what he thinks Hamlet's intentions are with her. He warns that his love is false and he only wants her for a short time, not the extended love he seems to promise her.
Brody Hovatter
ReplyDelete"My father's brother, but no more like my father than I to Hercules." (I.2 157-158)
While speaking to himself in a soliloquy, Hamlet compares his uncle to his dead father, who was supposedly killed by his brother. Hamlet states that his uncle is "...No more like my father than I to Hercules." From this statement, the audience learns that not only are the dead king and his brother vastly different, but also a lot about Hamlet's character. Hercules was a greek god of great strength and courage, which means that Hamlet does not possess those qualities.
Laura Ahlrep
ReplyDelete"Of impious stubborness. 'Tis unmanly grief./ It shows a will most incorrect in heaven,/ a heart unfortified, a mind impatient,/ an understanding simple and unschooled." (I.2 98- 101)
While the king speaks to his step son Hamlet he accuses Hamlet's actions as unmanly and disrespecting God because death happens and if "God wanted" the old king to die then Hamlet should not mourn so much but rejoice that he has been taken to heaven. I find it very interesting how in most of Shakespeares plays that the manliness of a character is always attacked such as in Macbeth. This whole duty of being a "manly man" seems to be the only way a character is suppose to act but in this case we know that the king is just trying to get Hamlet to move on with no real care for him at all.
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ReplyDeleteNik Toor
ReplyDelete"Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder." (I.5.31)
This is when the ghost of king Hamlet was talking to his son prince Hamlet about why he was there and what happened to him. King Hamlet told him that he was murdered by his own brother and he said that it was foul and unnatural because family shouldn't be killing family they should work together to conquer other people. This also really foreshadowed what's going to happen the rest of the book and what the plot is probably going to be about. It also helps explain why the marriage happened so soon after king Hamlet died, and from what it sounds like is that it was all planned before he was even dead.
Tori Weisel
ReplyDelete"For Hamlet and the trifling of his favor,/hold it a fashion and a toy in blood,/a violet in the youth of primy nature,/forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,/the perfume and suppliance of a minute,/no more" (I.3.6-11).
In these lines Laertes is talking to Ophelia about Hamlet. Laertes is saying that the relationship is only a temporary one and is an "amorous flirtation". He also tells her that her relationship is sweet now but it will not last because Laertes knows that Hamlet is not free to choose who he wants to marry if he wants to become King. Laertes also knows that Hamlet will most likely not choose Ophelia because she cannot bring him into power and that their father Polonius doesn't think Hamlet is good enough for Ophelia and he is very untrustworthy.
Crystal Nybo
ReplyDelete"a little ere the mightiest Julius fell, the graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead did squeak and gibber in Roman streets; as stars with trains of fire and dews of blood disasters in the sun; and the moist star...As harbingers preceding still the fates and prologue to the omen coming on…" (1.1.126-135)
Here Horatio is talking to Barnardo and Marcellus about how these omens bring terrible things to follow. This is a huge part of the play because it shows the foreshadowing of what has to follow this ghost and it will not bring good things. Disaster will come upon the land and the reader can expect things of disaster to unfold.
Bridget Cook
ReplyDelete"In what particular thought to work I know not, But in the gross and scope of mine opinion This bodes some strange eruption to our state." (I.I.78-80)
In this quote, Horatio is talking with Marcellus and Barnardo about the ghost they have seen twice during their night watches. Specificly Horatio is saying that he believes this apparation is foreshadowing something terrible(a strange eruption) in the state of Denmark. This quote is significant to the play because it tells the reader that the old king has returned to warn the people of Denmark about something in the near future.
Erik Enselman
ReplyDeleteMurder most foul, as in the best it is, But this most foul, strange, and unnatural. (Ghost)
1.5.33,34
This is significant to the play because Hamlet find out that his father was murdered by Hamlets uncle in an unsual and unnatural way. Hamlet now has some type of proof that his uncle did this just to take over the crown. Also, Hamlet beleives his friends that they saw a ghost of his father, King Hamlet and now he has seen it with his own eyes.
Savannah Guillen
ReplyDelete“‘Tis an unweeded garden / That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely. That it should come {to this:} / But two months dead – nay, not so much, not two. / So excellent a king, that was to this / Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother…” (I. 2. 139-144).
This quote is significant to the play because Hamlet claims his father, King Hamlet, is most like the sun god Hyperion, while his uncle, King Claudius, is like an inappropriate, goat-like satyr. This also suggests that Claudius had something to do with King Hamlet’s death. The beginning of the quote shows Hamlet’s pessimistic side because he sees the earth as being “rank and gross.”
Will Quattlebaum
ReplyDelete"It is an honest ghost"
-Hamlet 1.5.154
"Well said old mole."
-Hamlet 1.5.183
Both of these short quotes were said by Hamlet after the Ghost leaves when Marcellus and Horiato finally catch up to Hamlet. The first quote is talking about how Hamlet says that the Ghost, who is the Ghost of Hamlet Sr, is a ghost from Heaven and therefore a trustworthy ghost. Yet later on, when the Ghost is telling Horiato and Marcellus to "Swear!", Hamlet jokingly calls him a mole, which is more truthful as the Ghost, while trustworthy, is actually stuck in purgatory and not in Heaven. This would be more significant if Horiato or Marcellus caught it and put two and two together though.
Samielle Foltz
ReplyDelete"Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows,/ Why this same strict and most observant watch/ so nightly toils the subject of the land,/ and why such daily cast of brazen cannon/ and foreign mart fro implements of war,/ why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task/ does not divide the Sunday from the week./ Why might be toward that this sweaty haste/ Doth make the night joint laborer with the day?/" (1.1.82-89)
Marcellus is the one talking in these lines and his questions are next answered by Horatio in the next couple of lines. That the Norwegians are preparing to invade Denmark to retrieve once conquered land and Denmark is simply preparing for that invasion. But the important part of these lines is that they are more informative towards the tone of the play and the possible tensions between characters may be higher throughout the play. Then they might be prone to making decisions they normally wouldn't make in a time of peace for example.
Denisse Manrique
ReplyDelete"Ay, that incestuous, that adultrate beast/With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts/O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power/So to seduce!-won to his shameful lust/The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen." (I.5.49-53)
This quote said by old king Hamlet'd ghost to young Hamlet is significant to the play because it is where Hamlet's father tells him that his brother betrayed him. It's very important because old king Hamlet states that his brother killed him so he could seduce his wife and become king. This is a crucial part in the play because it is the feul to the fire of revenge that is building up inside young Hamlet. This just confirms young Hamlets doubts and suspicions of his uncle or step father.
Breanna Taylor
ReplyDelete"Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole"
Act 1, scene 5. line 68.
This quote is really important to the play because it foreshadows what the whole play is about. It is the ghost talking about how he was murdered by his brother, Hamlets uncle, and the whole play is about how Hamlet seeks revenge for his father.