Hamlet Quotations Act 1
Hamlet Quotations Act 1 INSTRUCTIONS:
For each quote:
(a) Identify the speaker, to whom it is addressed, and the situation,
(b) Explain (in detail) the significance of the quote in terms of all that apply: themes, character revelation, plot development, dramatic devices (irony, foreshadowing…), poetic devices (simile, metaphor, alliteration…), etc.
(c) Upload to turnitin.com
EXAMPLE:
“This bodes some strange eruption to our state.”
(a)
Horatio is speaking to Marcellus; Horatio is referring to the ghost of Hamlet Sr. that they have just witnessed.
(b)
Horatio believes that the ghost is appearing because foul play was involved with Hamlet Sr.’s death. He is not positive about it, but he knows that something “strange” is happening. This event puts the action of the play in motion (plot development). Also, the comment foreshadows the impending doom that Denmark may be facing.
1.
“A little more than kin, and less than kind.”
2.
“We pray you throw to earth this unprevailing woe, and think of us as a father…”
3.
“O that this too too sullied flesh would melt…”
4. “Frailty, thy name is woman…O most wicked speed! To post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets!”
5.
“Do not as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, while like a puff’d and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads…”
6. “This above all: to thine own self be true…”
7. “When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows.”
8. “The dram of evil doth all the noble substance often dout to his own scandal.”
9. “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
10. “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.”
11. “Haste me to know’t, that I with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love may sweep to my revenge.”
For each quote:
(a) Identify the speaker, to whom it is addressed, and the situation,
(b) Explain (in detail) the significance of the quote in terms of all that apply: themes, character revelation, plot development, dramatic devices (irony, foreshadowing…), poetic devices (simile, metaphor, alliteration…), etc.
(c) Upload to turnitin.com
EXAMPLE:
“This bodes some strange eruption to our state.”
(a)
Horatio is speaking to Marcellus; Horatio is referring to the ghost of Hamlet Sr. that they have just witnessed.
(b)
Horatio believes that the ghost is appearing because foul play was involved with Hamlet Sr.’s death. He is not positive about it, but he knows that something “strange” is happening. This event puts the action of the play in motion (plot development). Also, the comment foreshadows the impending doom that Denmark may be facing.
1.
“A little more than kin, and less than kind.”
2.
“We pray you throw to earth this unprevailing woe, and think of us as a father…”
3.
“O that this too too sullied flesh would melt…”
4. “Frailty, thy name is woman…O most wicked speed! To post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets!”
5.
“Do not as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, while like a puff’d and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads…”
6. “This above all: to thine own self be true…”
7. “When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows.”
8. “The dram of evil doth all the noble substance often dout to his own scandal.”
9. “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
10. “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.”
11. “Haste me to know’t, that I with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love may sweep to my revenge.”