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Hamlet no value in life I do not set my life in a pin’s fee (Marcellus) something is rotten Something is rotten in the state of Denmark The ghost tells Hamlet Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.But this most…

1564-1616 What are Shakespeare’s birth and death dates? Stratford on Avon, England Where did Shakespeare live? 1600-1601 When was Hamlet written? Elizabeth I Who was the monarch during this play? Possible interpretations of Hamlet’s Character 1. Hamlet, the victim of…

“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…

as he is finishing his speech, hamlet says, “Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, and this the native hue of resolution is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of through…” he’s speaking in general terms about mankind here,…

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark Marcellus to HoratioAfter seeing the ghost of Old HamletAct 1 Scene 4 Doomed for a certain term to walk the night, and for the day confined to fast n fires, till the…

the great chain 1) god: perfection 2) angels: intuition3) man: existence, growth, passion, reason4) animals: existence, growth, passion5) plants: existence, growth6) minerals: existence -most heavenly on top, basest creatures on bottom links in the chain -each separate link (or sub-class)…

Hamlet The Prince of Denmark, the title character, and the protagonist. About thirty years old at the start of the play, Hamlet is the son of Queen Gertrude and the late King Hamlet, and the nephew of the present king,…

Act 1 King is deadClaudius marries GertudeKings ghost appears: Hamlet must avenge his father Act 2 Hamlet starts to act strange, Hamlet plans to trap Claudius by insurting a script to make Claudius feel guilt Act 3 Hamlet rejects Ophelia,…

“frailty, thy name is woman” Hamlet, sol/mad at mom for marrying so quickly “for the apparel oft proclaims the man” polonius to laertus/make sure your clothes are quality not flashy because clothes make the man “neither a borrower nor a…

III i 53-56Your loneliness.— We are oft to blame in this,//’Tis too much proved, that with devotion’s visage//And pious action we do sugar o’er//The devil himself. Polonius to OpheliaContext: Polonius and the King are sending Ophelia to return Hamlet’s things…