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HAMLET

HAMLET. ACT ONE. Thematic ideas. Revenge. Appearance/reality. “Why seems it so particular with thee?” “My most seeming virtuous queen” Villain, smiling villain” “Perchance I shall think meet to put an antic disposition on.” Hamlet’s “tenders” of affection are “brokers”.

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HAMLET

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  1. HAMLET ACT ONE

  2. Thematic ideas Revenge Appearance/reality • “Why seems it so particular with thee?” • “My most seeming virtuous queen” • Villain, smiling villain” • “Perchance I shall think meet to put an antic disposition on.” • Hamlet’s “tenders” of affection are “brokers” • Fortinbras wants to avenge and regain loss of his father and lands • Ghost urges Hamlet to get revenge for his murder • Fortinbras has “sharked up a list of lawless resolutes” • “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder” • “Thy commandment all alone shall live within the book and volume of my brain”

  3. Act One Claudius: Present King of Denmark “How is it that the clouds still hang on you?” “ ‘Tis unmanly grief. It shows a will most incorrect to heaven.” “Throw to earth this unprevailing woe and Think of us as of a father”

  4. Act One • Hamlet: Prince of Denmark • “A little more than kin and less than kind” • “I have that within that passes show/These but the trappings and the suits of woe” Appearance/Reality • “Oh that this too, too, sullied flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew” Suicide • “Frailty, thy name is woman”

  5. Act One • “Thrift, thrift, Horatio. The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.” characterization: Hamlet’s wit • “ The world is an unweeded garden that grows to seed things rank and gross in nature” Decay • “Or that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon against self slaughter.” Suicide • “Thy commandment all alone shall live within the book and volume of my brain.” revenge • “The time is out of joint/Oh, cursed spite. That ever I was born to put it right.”

  6. Thematic Motifs • POISON • “and in the porches of mine ear did pour the leprous distilment “ • MADNESS • “Which might deprive you of your sovereignty and draw you into madness.” • “I hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on.”

  7. Thematic Motifs • Decay and Corruption “The canker galls the infants of the spring too oft before their buttons be disclosed.” • Poison motif established in Act I, scene iv • “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” - Marcellus • Entrapment • “Springes to catch “woodcocks” • Polonius

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