Hamlet+1.2

__**Hamlet 1.2**__ __4. Quotations__ __6. Relationships__ __5. My Reaction to the Marriage__ __3. Questions to think of__
 * "With an auspicious and a dropping eye,/ with mirth in funeral and dirge in marriage" (11-2). What? so was the Queen happy King Hamlet died? Hamlet would say yes, but not sadness in her remarriage. so are her emotions confused and King Claudius is just trying to express the emotional confusion as she has happy and sad moments at the same time?
 * “Let your haste commend your duty./In that and all things we show our duty” (39-40). Courtiers’ response to King, stresses formality and duty.
 * “Do not forever with thy vailed lids/seek for thy noble father in the dust/though know’st ‘tis common; all that lives must die/passing though nature to eternity” (72-5). Hamlet is extremely upset by the death of his father but his mother tries to tell him to accept that his father is now dead and with God and that death is a part of life.
 * “’Tis not alone, my inky cloak, good mother,/nor customary suits of solemn black,/nor windy suspiration of forced breath,/no, nor the fruitful river of the eye,/nor the dejected havior of the visage,/together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,/that can denote me truly…these but the trappings and suits of woe” (80-9). Description of grief. Hamlet grieves not only with outward signs, as he supposes his mother did out of custom, but with actual grief.
 * “’tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet,/to give these mourning duties to your father/…the survivor bound in filial obligation for some term/ to do obsequious sorrow” (90-5). King Claudius implies that Hamlet should only grieve out of duty and basically get over it because its been long enough.
 * "'Tis unmanly grief./It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,/a heart unfortified, a mind impatient,/an understanding simple and unschooled./...Fie, 'tis a fault to heaven,/a fault against the dead, a fault to nature/...this unprevailing woe" (98-111). King Claudius says that Hamlet shows a lack of faith by his grieving and that it is just a part of nature.
 * "I shall in all my best obey you, madam./Why, tis a loving and a fair reply" (124-5). Ironic because it is not a loving reply but rather one out of duty.
 * "frailty, thy name is woman!)/...(Oh God, a beast that wants discourse of reasoning/would have mourned longer!)...Within a month/ere yet the salt 0f most unrighteous tears/had left the flushing in her galled eyes,/she married. O, most wicked speed, to post/with such dexterity to incestuous sheets!" (150-62). Hamlet is extremely angry that his mother married so soon, ha believes that she did not even truly mourn but rather that it was an act because it was expected of her.
 * "But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue" (164). Hamlet cannot speak his mind out of formalities and duties of court life.
 * "And we did think it writ down in our duty/to let you know of it" (235-6). Horatio speaks to Hamlet about the ghost. Even between friends there is duty and almost formality, but Horatio could just mean a duty as Hamlet's friend.
 * "A countenance more in sorrow than in anger" (47). Hamlet wants to know if his father is angry at Queen Gertrude's quick remarriage, but Horatio insists on more sadness than anger.
 * "I'll speak to it, Though hell itself should gape/and bid me hold my peace. I pray you all,/if you have hitherto concealed this sight,/let it be tenable in your silence still" (266-9). Hamlet decides to speak to the ghost. Again there is connection between the ghost and unrest/disrupting the peace. There is a sense of secrecy and silence introduced as well.
 * "Our duty to your honor./Your loves, as mine to you" . Duty and formalities connected to love.
 * "Foul deeds will rise/though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes" (279-81). Suspicion of foul play.
 * Everyone has respect for the King (but almost grudgingly? its something to keep track of as I read). Hamlet has respect because he has to be formal towards his father-inlaw.
 * Hamlet resents that his mother moved on and married his uncle. They are trying to push him to be happy, but he is still grieving the death of his father.
 * Since Queen Gertrude/Hamlet's mother was not related to Claudius/Hamlet's Uncle, it is not technically incest because they do not share blood relations. That said I also think that the appropriateness of the marriage would depend a lot on their relationship. I also feel that it it more acceptable to the society because they are royalty and royals tend to stick with each other. I think that what really makes this marriage inappropriate is that Queen Gertrude's husband just died and she had very little mourning time. I think that Hamlet is extremely justified to be upset at their marriage.
 * Is the marriage one of love or convenience or practicality?
 * Did Hamlet's mother love King Hamlet?
 * Was Claudius an advisor and part of their lives before King Hamlet died?
 * What do the others think? Do they hide their real feelings because of duty/respect?