| Disease and poison | Physical disease , mental disease Claudius poisons king hamlet |
| Appearence & Reality | What is VS what should be |
| Fortune fate and providence | All mean fate |
| Revenge | Will fuel the action to plot Ghost king hamlet wants revenge on claudius |
| Frailty | “Frailty thy women are weak” Women are weak |
| Public and private warfare | Private – internal conflict Hamlet is having inner conflict about marriage |
| Conflicts betweem older and younger generations | Parent and child Ophelia and polonius |
| Fidelty and treachery | Faithfulness and murder |
| Unquiet Slumber | Inability to sleep inability to rest when dead – ghost |
| Incest | Cluadius and queen gertrude |
| Purgatory | Place between heaven and hell Ghost |
| Roles and portrayals of women | 2 female characters |
Hamlet act 1 motifs
July 13, 2019