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Hamlet
Hamlet
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O , what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
I am weak and worthless.
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Guilty creatures sitting at a play have, by the very cunning of the scene, been struck so to the soul that presently they have proclaimed their malefactions
Guilty people who are shown a play that shows their crime will appear guilty
100
My lord I have remembrances of yours...
Ophelia to Hamlet. She has gifts and letters he gave to her to give back.
100
Haply the seas and countries different, With variable objects , shall expel this something settled matter in his heart.
King to Polonius. If I send Hamlet on a journey the sea voyage and change of scenery with help him get better.
100
essence
root or origin
200
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... Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect, A broken voice..
This actor shows so much emotion about something that is not real. He is crying and can barely speak.
200
The spirit I have seen may be a devil..
I'm not sure If my father's ghost was the devil trying to trick me
200
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind
Ophelia to Hamlet.Expensive gifts mean nothing when the giver is uncaring.
200
'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
It is true that people try to cover up their evil intentions by trying to be good.
200
rebuke
to criticize sharply
300
Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause ....
I am a lazy daydreamer with no ambition.
300
I'll have grounds more relevant than this.
I need more proof other than what the ghost said.
300
Get thee to a nunnery.
Hamlet to Ophelia. Go to a convent and become a nun.
300
O' 'tis too true How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!
King to himself.It true what Polonius said, how his words do sting my conscience.
300
denounce
to speak out against
400
But I am pigeon-livered and lack gall To make the oppression bitter, or ere this I should ha' fatted all the regions kites with this slave's offal.
I am a coward. I should have killed Claudius and fed his guts to the birds already.
400
The plays the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King
I will use the play to prove the King is guilty
400
God hath given you one face and you make yourself another
Hamlet to Ophelia. You are two-faced.
400
The harlot's cheek , beautied with plast'ring art, is not more ugly than the thing that helps it Than is my deed to my most painted word. O heavy burden.
King to Himself. Like an woman who hides her ugly face with make-up so have I hidden my ugly deed with kind words.
400
connoisseur endeavor
an expert future plan
500
I'll tent him to the quick. If he but blench I know my course.
I'll watch him closely, if he reacts I'll know what to do
500
What he himself might his quietus make, with a bare bodkin?
When a person can end all life's troubles with a daggar?
500
Love! His affections do not that way tend, Nor what he spake, though it lacked form a little, was not madness.
King about Hamlet. I don't believe he is suffering from love-sickness. His speech was a little strange but he did not appear insane.
500
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
King to Polonius. People who are powerful and crazy must be controlled.
500
cordial shrewd
polite aware, smart , intelligent