| “Mad as the sea and wind, when both commend/Which is the mightier.”Speaker/Literary Device | GertrudeSimile |
| “A man may fish with a worm that hath eat of a king, and/eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.”Speaker/Theme | HamletDeath |
| “Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety, /Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve/ For that which thou hast done, must send thee hence/ With fiery quickness”Speaker/Literary Device | ClaudiusMetaphor |
| “And England, if my love thou hold’t at aught/ … / The present death of Hamlet. Do it England, / For like the hectic in my blood he rages, / And thou must cure me. Till I know ’tis done. / Howe’er my haps my joys were ne’er begun.”Speaker/ Literary Device | ClaudiusSimile |
| “How all occasions do inform against me, /And spur my dull revenge!” | Hamlet |
| “To my sick soul, as sin’s true nature is, / Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss. / So full of artless jealousy is guilt, / It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”Speaker/Literary Device | GertrudeMetaphor/Alliteration |
| “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, / But in battalions.”Speaker/ Literary Device / Theme | ClaudiusProverb/MaximCorruption |
| “Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s Day,/ All in the morning bedtime, /And I a maid at your window, /To be your Valentine. /Then up he rose and donned his clothes / And dumped the chamber door.”Speaker/ Theme | OpheliaDeath/Madness |
| “O heavens, is’t possible a young maid’s wits/ Should be as mortal as an old man’s life?”Speaker/Theme | LaertesMadness |
| “So you shall/And where th’ offense is, let the great axe fall.”Speaker/ Device / About Whom | ClaudiusMetaphorHamlet |
| “… the great love the general gender bear him…” | Claudius |
| “I’ll have preferred him/ A chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping, / If he by chance escape your venomed stuck, /Our purpose may hold there.” | Claudius |
| “Her clothes spread wide,/ And mermaid like awhile they bore her up,/Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds/As one incapable of her own distress”Speaker/Literary Device/Theme | GertrudeSimileMadness |
| “To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he find it stopping a bug-hole?”Speaker/LD/Theme | HamletAllusionDeath |
| “Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to into dust; the dust is earth, of earth, we make loam; and why of that loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel?”Speaker/LD/Theme | HamletAllusionDeath |
| “Sweets to the sweet; farewell!”Speaker/LD | GertrudeMetaphor |
| “I loved Ophelia; forty thousand brothers/Could not, with all their quantity of love,/make up my sum”Speaker/LD | HamletHyperbole |
| “Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well,/When our deep plots do fail: and that should teach us/There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,/Rough-hew them how we will.”Speaker/LD/Theme | HamletPersonificationFate |
| “There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, “tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is’t to leave betimes?”Speaker/LD | HamletMetaphor |
| “Give me your pardon, sir: I have done you wrong:/But pardon’t, as you are a gentleman.”Speaker | Hamlet |
| “I am justly kill’d with mine own treachery”Speaker/LD/Theme | LaertesIronyRevenge |
| “I cannot live to hear the news from England;/But i do prophesy the election lights/ On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice;”Speaker | Hamlet |
| “O proud death,/What feast is toward in thine eternal cell,/That thou so many princes at a shot/So bloodily has struck?”Speaker/LD | FortinbrasPersonification |
| “give order that these bodies/High on a stage be placed to the view;/And let me speak to the yet unknowing world/How these things came about: so shall you hear/of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts;/Of accidental judgments,casual slaughters;/ Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause;/And, in this upshot, purposes mistook/Fall’n on the inventors’ heads: all this can I/Truly deliver.”Speaker | Horatio |
| “For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune;/I have some rights of memory in this kingdom,/Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me,”Speaker | Fortinbras |
Hamlet Act Four & Five
September 1, 2019