Hamlet+3.4

__**Hamlet 3.4**__ __4. Quotations__ __6. Relationships__ __8. Ambiguous__
 * "Thou turn'st my eyes into my very soul,/and there I see such black and grained spots/as will not leave their tinct./...These words like daggers enter in my ears" (100-2, 108). Gertrude feels guilty and does accept blame. interesting diction reflects Hamlet's earlier plan to "speak daggers."
 * "This counselor/is now most still, most secret, and most grave,/who was in life a foolish prating knave" (236-8). Hamlet's characterization of Polonius is amusing and what we've been developing. Interesting that it is also a heroic couplet thrown in. What does that mean? This is also ambiguous.
 * Hamlet to his mother
 * Hamlet blames his mother and is extremely angry at her
 * "You are the Queen, your husband's brother's wife,/and (were it not so) you are my mother" (20-1).
 * "A bloody deed-almost as bad, good mother,/as kill a king and marry with his brother" (34-5). Satire and verbal irony in "good mother."
 * "Such an act/that blurs the grace and blush of modesty,/calls virtue hypocrite...makes marriage vows/as false as dicers' oaths...the very soul, and sweet religion makes/a rhapsody of words!" (49-51, 53-4, 57-8). Calls her a hypocrite and articulates his blame and anger.
 * "Confess yourself to heaven,/repent what's past, avoid what is to come" (170-1). Hamlet then goes on to ask her to behave and save her soul.
 * "Assume a virtue if you have it not" (181). Hamlet still doubts his mother's virtue and goodness, but tells her to fake it if she must.
 * Ghost to Gertrude
 * He does not want her harmed, nor does he blame her
 * "Do not forget. This visitation/is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose./But look, amazement on thy mother sits./ O, step between her and her fighting soul./ Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works" (126-30).
 * He blames Claudius fro her actions, because she is a weak woman who cannot make her own decisions.
 * Hamlet speaks in iambic pentameter mostly, but he continues to make breaks. There are also lines where he is very witty with puns. Is he overwhelmed with emotion or is he going mad?
 * The Ghost is not seen by Gertrude, is it real? Can it be real to one but not the other without someone being insane?