Cat and Mouse
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- So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word.
- I have been so affrighted... Lord Hamlet... with a look so piteous in purpot as if he had been loosed out of hell to speak of horros - he comes before me.
- Mad for thy love?
- I entreat you both That, being of so young days brought up with him... to gather, So much as from occasion you may glean.
- But we both obey... To be commanded
- The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.
- Her father and myself (lawful espials) will bestow ourselves that, seeing unseen.
- Hamlet initiates this ongoing game of cat and mouse when he finds out the truth about his father's death, and promises to seek revenge on Claudius. Hamlet starts out as the cat pursuing Claudius, who is the mouse.
- Am I then revenged to take him in the purging of his soul when he is fit and seasoned for passage? No.
- By acting outlandish towards Ophelia, Hamlet is the cat in this situation because he has thrown out the bait for his mouse (Claudius) to be suspicious of him.
- By no means, that I bid you do... Make you to ravel all this matter out; that I essentially am not in madness but mad in craft
- Claudius takes on the role of the cat when he sends two of Hamlet's best friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to find out any information regarding Hamlet's strange behaviour.
- But a terminal disease requires extreme treatment, or nothing at all.
- Hamlet represents the cat in this situation as he is waiting to catch Claudius revealing his guilt during the replication of his murder in the play.
- Cry to be heard as 'twere from heaven to earth, that I must call't to question.
- So you shall. And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.
- Claudius represents a cat hiding and waiting to pounce on its prey when he plans to eavesdrop on Hamlet to uncover his plans.
- So you can easily choose one with a sharpened point and in one thrust avenge the death of your father.
- I'll do it, and I'll put a little dab of something on my sword as well.
- Hamlet is the cat in this situation as he has the opportunity to kill Claudius. However, he hesitates and decides not to in the fear hat Claudius may go to Heaven, and he will not get the proper revenge.
- Hamlet represents the cat in this situation because he is forcing his mother to understand what she has done in order to help him in his pursuit of Claudius. Hamlet is using his mother as a part of his plan to catch his 'prey'.
- When Claudius has ordered for Hamlet to be sent to England immediately, he has adopted the role of the cat because he plans to kill Hamlet as soon as he arrives.
- By redirecting Laertes' anger towards Hamlet, Claudius acts as the cat because he has a plan for chasing after Hamlet.
- Claudius is the cat in this scene because he is plotting to kill Hamlet without his knowledge during a seemingly friendly fencing match between him and Laertes.
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