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- Meeting with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
- "My excellent good friends! How dost thou Guildenstern? Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do you both?"
- Denmark is a Prison
- "the world's grown honest."
- "Denmark's a prison"
- Another Lie, Another Betrayal.
- "My lord, we were sent for."
- "wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth"
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are sent to show Hamlet a good time. After they have partied and drank, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were sent by the King and Queen to find the root of Hamlet's madness. At this moment they are reminiscing and mutually poking fun at one another.
- Good Beautiful Things Appear Ugly.
- "forgone all custom of exercises, and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory."
- After chatting for a while Hamlet asks Guildenstern what is new. Guildenstern then replays with a line that triggers Hamlet. This line is "the world's grown honest." This then leads Hamlet to change his mood from joyous to upset. No one has been honest with Hamlet and that is why he is upset that Guildenstrn believes the world to be so. Therefore this leads Hamlet to expressing how trapped he feels by Denmark and the evil within it.
- Uncleanliness of the Sky
- "the air, look you, this brave o'er-hanging firmament, this majestical roof, fretted with gold fire- why it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors."
- At this point in time, Guildenstern admits to Hamlet that they were sent/forced to spy on him. This really upsets hamlet furthermore he continues to feel betrayed due to the dishonesty from the people in his life. He then in the next couple of scenes explains his depression in greater detail.
- Nothing but Dust
- "What a piece of noble work is men, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable; in action how like a good: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals-"
- Hamlet starts to explain his internal conflict with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. He goes on to express that his outlook on life right now does not resemble the outlook of others. He starts by comparing his views towards the earth to the views of others. He states that the people view the world as such a beautiful and fruitful thing. However, he sees it only in an ugly mannor.
- Hamlet continues to explain his internal conflict with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. He goes on to explain that his outlook on life right now does not resemble the outlook of others. He gives another example about the sky and how people view it as a most fragrant and giving thing. However, he views it as a dirty, stinky gathering of vapors.
- Lastly, Hamlet gives Rosencrantz and Guildenstern one final look at his depressive state. In this scene, Hamlet explains that mankind is a worshipped godlike thing among the people. That mankind's form is infinite. Although this is not the correct depiction of mankind in his eyes. He doesn't believe mankind to be anything more than dust. Furthermore alluding to the fact that he views the existence of humanity to be pointless.
- "and yet, to me, what is the quintessence of dust? Man delights me no, nor women either."
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