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World Literature 10/26/2014 Analyzing Quotes from Hamlet

World Literature 10/26/2014 Analyzing Quotes from Hamlet. Find the quote in your text. Listen to your group’s reader recite the quote to the group. Look at stage directions and other clues to see who else is on stage.

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World Literature 10/26/2014 Analyzing Quotes from Hamlet

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  1. World Literature 10/26/2014Analyzing Quotes from Hamlet • Find the quote in your text. • Listen to your group’s reader recite the quote to the group. • Look at stage directions and other clues to see who else is on stage. • Review the scene to determine what is happening at this point in the play. • Think and Analyze! Discuss the deeper meaning the quote has for the overall play.

  2. Who is speaking? • This is the easy question, but it is important. • The speaker’s name is to the left of the quote.

  3. To whom is the person speaking? • Not every name on the page is still on stage. • Look carefully at stage directions. • Exit means that one character leaves the stage. • Exeunt means that more than one character leaves the stage. • Aside means that the character is speaking a private thought to self and/or audience. • If the character is alone onstage, that character’s words are part of a soliloquy.

  4. What is the situation? • Review scene summaries from your notes. • Skim over the pages before and after the quote. • Discuss the situation in context of what it contributes to the play’s action.

  5. How does the quote tie into another situation? • Ask your group members why this quote was chosen for this exercise. • Consider what this quote means to the speaker and to those who hear it. • Find another part of the play in which the quote is relevant to one or more of these characters. • Make the connections!

  6. A little more than kin and less than kind.

  7. A little more than kin and less than kind.

  8. This above all; to thine own self be true,And it must follow, as the night the day,Thou canst not then be false to any man.

  9. O my prophetic soul! My uncle?

  10. As I perchance hereafter shall think meetTo put an antic disposition on –

  11. Madam, I swear I use no art at all.That he’s mad, ‘tis true, ‘tis true ‘tis pity,And pity ‘tis ‘tis true – a foolish figure,But farewell it, for I will use no art.

  12. What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,That he should weep for her? What would he doHad he the motive and cue for passionThat I have?

  13. I’ll have groundsMore relative than this – the play’s the thingWherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.

  14. Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,And thus the native hue of resolutionIs sicklied over with the pale cast of thought.

  15. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

  16. My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

  17. Rightly to be greatIs not to stir without great argument,But greatly to find quarrel in a strawWhen honor’s at the stake.

  18. Was your father dear to you?Or are you like a painting of a sorrow,A face without a heart?

  19. And yet it is almost against my conscience.

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