Hamlet

CHARACTERS AND QUOTES

Hamlet:

First soliloquy:

O that this too too sallied flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew.

Hamlets annoyance is intensified by his knowledge of his restless fuss: first hint of foul play:

Foul deeds leave alone rise,

though all earth oerwhelm them, to mens eyes.

Entrance of the ghost:

Marcellus: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

The ghost appears self centred, jealous and envious as he accuses Claudius of murder, and Gertrude of adultery.

End of Act I, Hamlet cries out against cruel parcel:

O cursed spite,

that ever I was born to set it counterbalance!

By the end of Scene v, the bitter irony of the play becomes ostensible: a sick soul is commanded to heal and restore uniformity to Denmark

The bitterness, cynicism and hatred of Hamlets dealings with others could be seen as unnecessary, but in a series of insulting lines, he seeks retribution for the pain which he has suffered as a result of Polonius erect to Ophelia.

What gear up of work is a man! How noble in reason, how blank space in faculties...

- and yet to me what is this quintessence of dust ?

This hymn of value to man epitomises the lyrical richness of Hamlets imagination before his mightily transformation to a state of subservient depression.

Second soliloquy:

O what a rogue and peasant slave am I!

The attack attack on himself is merely a further model of the impotence and lack of forthrightness that plagues Hamlet.

I should a fatted all the region kites

With this slaves offal.

Act III, ordinal soliloquy:

To be or not to be, that is the question

He becomes increasingly stir with his inaction and tries to find the truth behind his pain and paralysis.

Just as meaning, passion and purpose...

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