Corruption In Hamlet
"Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse" (1.1.120),
As Horatio is describing the conditions during the life of Julius Caesar analogy that the appearance of the ghost is a sign for denmark like the sick mom was the sign for change in rome
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" (1.4.90), says Marcellus after he has seen Hamlet follow the Ghost into the dark.
When Marcellus says this he concludes that there is a lot of corruption inside the walls of the leaders of Denmark. Many things in Denmark are pointing to the destruction and decay of denmark and is a common thread of rottenness in the first act
"For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion" (2.2.181-182), hamlet says this while he is talking very bitterly …show more content…
“And that he calls for drink, I'LL have prepared him a Chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping If he by chance escape your venom's stick, Our purpose may hold there” Act 4 scene 6
This is King Claudius talking to Laertes about assassinating Hamlet. The King is saying that if Laertes isn’t able to kill Hamlet with his poison-covered sword, that, as back up, the King will set out a glass of poison for Hamlet to drink.
“Do it, England; For like the hectic in my blood he rages, And thou must cure me. (4.3.64-66)
King Claudius says this to himself. He is expressing that the only thing that will “cure him” or allow him to rest easy again, will be once Hamlet is …show more content…
He thinks that Laertes has heard a lot of rumors that point the murderer of his father to be the King himself, even though this is not true.
“The age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe” (5.1.140-142).
After hearing the Gravedigger talk back to Hamlet, Hamlet says this line. A "kibe" is an itchy inflammation caused by exposure to moist cold. To "gall" is to rub or abrade. Thus Hamlet's metaphor shows the peasant's toe making the courtier's sore spot even more sore.
"I' faith, if he be not rotten before he die--as we have many pocky corses now-a-days, that will scarce hold the laying in--he will last you some eight year or nine year" (5.1.165-167).
The Gravedigger responds to Hamlet with this quote. A person--or corpse--is "pocky" when it is rotten with venereal disease.
"is't not to be damn'd, / To let this canker of our nature come / In further evil?" (5.2.68-70).
Speaking of the King, Hamlet says this. Here, a "canker" is a cancerous lesion, and "our nature" means our common human nature. Thus Hamlet sees the King as a kind of disease who will make other people worse and destroy our faith in human
As Horatio is describing the conditions during the life of Julius Caesar analogy that the appearance of the ghost is a sign for denmark like the sick mom was the sign for change in rome
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" (1.4.90), says Marcellus after he has seen Hamlet follow the Ghost into the dark.
When Marcellus says this he concludes that there is a lot of corruption inside the walls of the leaders of Denmark. Many things in Denmark are pointing to the destruction and decay of denmark and is a common thread of rottenness in the first act
"For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion" (2.2.181-182), hamlet says this while he is talking very bitterly …show more content…
“And that he calls for drink, I'LL have prepared him a Chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping If he by chance escape your venom's stick, Our purpose may hold there” Act 4 scene 6
This is King Claudius talking to Laertes about assassinating Hamlet. The King is saying that if Laertes isn’t able to kill Hamlet with his poison-covered sword, that, as back up, the King will set out a glass of poison for Hamlet to drink.
“Do it, England; For like the hectic in my blood he rages, And thou must cure me. (4.3.64-66)
King Claudius says this to himself. He is expressing that the only thing that will “cure him” or allow him to rest easy again, will be once Hamlet is …show more content…
He thinks that Laertes has heard a lot of rumors that point the murderer of his father to be the King himself, even though this is not true.
“The age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe” (5.1.140-142).
After hearing the Gravedigger talk back to Hamlet, Hamlet says this line. A "kibe" is an itchy inflammation caused by exposure to moist cold. To "gall" is to rub or abrade. Thus Hamlet's metaphor shows the peasant's toe making the courtier's sore spot even more sore.
"I' faith, if he be not rotten before he die--as we have many pocky corses now-a-days, that will scarce hold the laying in--he will last you some eight year or nine year" (5.1.165-167).
The Gravedigger responds to Hamlet with this quote. A person--or corpse--is "pocky" when it is rotten with venereal disease.
"is't not to be damn'd, / To let this canker of our nature come / In further evil?" (5.2.68-70).
Speaking of the King, Hamlet says this. Here, a "canker" is a cancerous lesion, and "our nature" means our common human nature. Thus Hamlet sees the King as a kind of disease who will make other people worse and destroy our faith in human