Quote #1
"GHOST Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. HAMLET Murder! GHOST Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange and unnatural. HAMLET Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge. (1.5.7) Quote #2 HAMLET Now might I do it pat, now he is praying; And now I'll do't. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged. That would be scann'd: A villain kills my father; and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven. (3.3.1) Quote 3 CLAUDIUS Hamlet comes back: what would you undertake, To show yourself your father's son in deed More than in words? LAERTES To cut his throat i' the church. KING CLAUDIUS No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds. (4.7.13) Quote 4 Hamlet O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth! Quote 5 LAERTES How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with: To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation. To this point I stand, That both the worlds I give to negligence, Let come what comes; only I'll be revenged Most thoroughly for my father. (4.5.6) Quote 6 HAMLET Does it not, think'st thee, stand me now upon-- He that hath kill'd my king and whored my mother, Popp'd in between the election and my hopes, Thrown out his angle for my proper life, And with such cozenage—is't not perfect conscience, To quit him with this arm? and is't not to be damn'd, To let this canker of our nature come In further evil? (5.2.9) Quote 7 HAMLET O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann'd, Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing! (2.2.58 Quote 8 HAMLET […] I do not know Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me: Witness this army of such mass and charge Led by a delicate and tender prince, Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain? O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth! (4.4.6) |
Explanations#1- This quote is where the ghost
informs Hamlet of the treason, but hamlet still does not know who to kill. Hamlet is eager to kill, but when he finds out it is king Cladius hes desire for revenge is uncertain. #2- This quote explains revenge in hamlet because he is committing to kill the king, but contemplating if this is the right place and time because Claudius is praying, and this may cause his soul to go to heaven, which defeats the purpose of his main goal to avenge his father. #3- This quote displays revenge in a very strong manner of revenge, as Claudius states that revenge should have no bounds. #4- Here hamlet is thinking about revenge and how his thoughts and actions will be bloody. #5- as Laertes hears that his father has been killed he immediately swears that he will find the person and avenge his father. Revenge is played in this quote not only because Laertes father has died but because king Claudius fools him into thinking that hamlet has done it purposely. This shows that the King is afraid of hamlets rage of revenge for him because of the death of his father. #6- In this quote revenge is played in two aspects, one being that hamlet has the desire to avenge his father because of the treason that has been acted by Claudius to hamlets father but also revenge in the aspect that the king has taken hamlets rightful spot as King. He wants revenge not only for his father but for the throne as well. #7 - in this quote hamlet realizes that this actor he is watching is faking the emotions that are coming out of him. He contemplates that if this actor can be so emotional over something that did not really happen, how is it that hamlet is not on the floor weeping and avenging his father at this moment. #8- This is a turning point in the play, Hamlet sees that Fortinbras army is going to invade Poland for the smallest amount of land. He see's that hundreds of men are willing to sacrifice themselves for their country and their king even though they are not related. They just have a sense of strong nationalism. This makes Hamlet realize that he must take action now and that the revenge within him must come out because of theses men willing to sacrifice their lives over nothing and hamlet is sitting their doing nothing over his own beloved fathers death. |