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Hamlet
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- I cannot believe my mother remarried my uncle after a month of my father's passing!
- Act I Scene ii
- We are so happy to announce our marriage to the kingdom! We must move forward and accept Former King Hamlet's death.
- Act I Scene v
- Your uncle murdered me by pouring poison in my ear. You shall seek revenge!!!
- Act III Scene i
- To be or not to be...what is the point of living...
- Hamlet is upset about his mother's new marriage. Gertrude urges him to cast off his “nightly colour,” but he replies bitterly that his inner sorrow is so great that his dour appearance is merely a poor mirror of it. Affecting a tone of fatherly advice, Claudius declares that all fathers die, and all sons must lose their fathers. When a son loses a father, he is duty-bound to mourn, but to mourn for too long is unmanly and inappropriate.
- Act III Scene i
- Ophelia, go to a Nunnery! I never wrote such things nor did I ever love you!
- Hamlet, you made me believe that you loved me and you would marry me!
- In the darkness, the ghost speaks to Hamlet, claiming to be his father’s spirit, come to rouse Hamlet to revenge his death, a “foul and most unnatural murder”. Hamlet is appalled at the revelation that his father has been murdered, and the ghost tells him that as he slept in his garden, a villain poured poison into his ear—the very villain who now wears his crown, Claudius.
- Act III Scene ii
- Mousetrap
- Hamlet enters, speaking thoughtfully and agonizingly to himself about the question of whether to commit suicide to end the pain of experience: “To be, or not to be: that is the question”. He says that the miseries of life are such that no one would willingly bear them, except that they are afraid of “something after death”.
- Act III Scene iv
- Hamlet, what have you done!!!
- Intruding fool!
- Having received her orders from Polonius, Ophelia tells Hamlet that she wishes to return the tokens of love he has given her. Angrily, Hamlet denies having given her anything; he laments the dishonesty of beauty, and claims both to have loved Ophelia once and never to have loved her at all. Bitterly, commenting on the wretchedness of humankind, he urges Ophelia to enter a nunnery rather than become a “breeder of sinners”.
- The players enter and act out they play, Mousetrap. A king and queen display their love. The queen leaves the king to sleep, and while he is sleeping, a man murders him by pouring poison into his ear. The murder then, seduces the queen and marries her.
- ACTOR: King Hamlet
- ACTOR: King Claudius
- In Gertrude’s chamber, Polonius hides in order to eavesdrop on Gertrude’s confrontation with her son, in the hope that doing so will enable him to determine the cause of Hamlet’s bizarre behavior. Hamlet hears a noise and thinks that King Claudius is hiding behind the tapestry and kills him. Hamlet lifts the arras and discovers Polonius’s body: he has not killed the king and achieved his revenge but has murdered the relatively innocent Polonius.
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