Hamlet, act 3 (Speak daggers) | “I’ll speak daggers to her but use none” |
Hamlet, act 2 (pidgeon) | “I am pigeon-livered and lack gall” |
Hamlet, act 2 (thinking) | “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so” |
Laertes, Act 5 (treachery) | “I am justly killed with my own treachery” |
Laertes, act 4 (pappy) | “Where is my father?” |
Laertes, act 4 (revenged) | “I’ll be revenged most thoroughly for my father” |
Hamlet, act 3 (proud) | “I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious” |
Claude williamson, Hamlet (intellectual) | “Is a man too intellectual to be practical” |
Coleridge 1930s (spur of moment) | “Hamlet is obliged to act in the spur of the moment” |
Samuel Johnson (Instrument) | “Hamlet is rather an instrument than an agent” |
Goethe, 1795 (hamlet, moral) | “Pure, noble and most moral nature” |
Goethe, 1795 (Hamlet, soul unfit) | “Represent the effects of a great action laid upon a soul unfit for the performance of it” |
Loreta Todd (impulsive, Laertes) | “He is an impulsive man of action” |
GH Lewis 1800s (thought) | “Hamlet may be called the tragedy of thought” |
Goethe, 1795 (Idealist) | “Hamlet is an idealist trapped in a world demanding action” |
Hazlitt, 1800s (Eaten up) | “His powers of action have been eaten up by thought” |
Hamlet: Action vs Inaction
August 30, 2019