'Seems? Nay, it is, I know not seems' - Act 1 Sc 2 > implies she's pretending grief
Oh this too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into dew' - Act 1 Sc 2 > images of decay/suicidal tendencies
'Fragility thy name is woman!' - view of women as deceptive/weak > misogyny themes
'oh villain, villain, oh damned smiling villain' - view of Claudius
'there is nothing neither good or bad, but thinking makes it so' > ironic
'what a piece of work is a man! ... in apprehension, how like a god! yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?' > doesn't see point in life/see himself as 'real man' > how he seems humankind > shows motif of obsession w physicality of death > 'apprehension [thought]' = relates to inaction v action > thinking=what humans are good at
'the play's thing thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king' > using deception of a play to get truth
'get thee to a nunnery [brothel]' - to ophelia > a sexist?
'to be or not to be - that is the question, whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them?' suicide and death > is it better to live and suffer to end it all > whole sillioquy = Hamlet trying to find religious reason to kill Claudius and then to philosophical q's > don't give him any answers
'Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought'
> theme of inaction v action and obsession w thought > how fear of death/ambiguity of afterlife = makes people not commit suicide

	Created by Jess Watts about 8 years ago

hamlet play character analysis and quotes