Hamlet+3.2

__**Hamlet 3.2**__ __4. Quotations__ __6. Relationships__ __8. Ambiguity__
 * "Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it makes the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grief, the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole thearther of others" (16-21, 26-30). Hamlet does not want the players to overact this because his goal is not comedy but rather seriousness. He says that the appreciation of one intelligent person is worth more than the laughter of a thearter of inadequate viewer.
 * "Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice/and could distinguish, her election/hath sealed thee for herself. For thou hast been/as one suffering all that suffers nothing,/a man that Fortune's buffets and rewards/hast ta'en with equal thanks" (67-72). Mention of suffering, fate, and soul. Hamlet says that he was not decieved by the ghost, that his soul is still his own. How does this mention of his soul connect to other references?
 * "If his occulted guilt/do not itself unkennel in one speech,/it is a damned ghost that we have seen,/and my imaginations are as foul/as Vulcan's stithy" (85-9). Hamlet is still cautious of trusting the ghost.
 * "I dis enact Julius Caesar. I was killed i' th' capital. Brutus killed me" (109-10). Interesting allusion, but what does it mean for Polonius? Or is it ironic because he cannot see deciet and treason?
 * "Now could I drink hot/blood" (422-3). Hamlet's vivid imagery, he is angry and passionate now, but he will not hurt his mother. He will only "speak daggers to her" (429).
 * Hamlet and Horatio
 * Hamlet speaks in iambic pentameter to him, which illustrates how he is himself and trusts Horatio.
 * Horatio and Hamlet will look for the King's guilt, "And, after, we will both our judgments join/in censure of his seeming" (91-2). It is wise for Hamlet to get another's opinion, but is Horatio already swayed to believe the guilt? I think that this also highlights that Hamlet is not crazy.
 * Hamlet believes the ghost and Horatio agrees. Hamlet then calls to celebrate.
 * Hamlet and women
 * "What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within 's two hours" (132-5). Hamlet is angry at his mother for being happy.
 * "'Tis brief my lord" (174). "As woman's love" (175). Hamlet's anger at women started with his mother but now encompasses all women.
 * "Such love must needs be treason in my breast./ In second husband let me be accurst./ None wed the second but who killed the first./...The instances that second marriage move/are base respects of thrift, but none of love./...So think thou wilt no second husband wed,/but die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead" (201-3, 205-6, 237-8). The first two are from the Queen and the last is from the King. Hamlet shows his anger and blame at/of his mother and the wisdom and acceptance of his father.
 * Hamlet and Claudius
 * "We that have free souls, it touches us not. Let the galled jade wince; ours withers are unwrung" (265-7). Hamlet tells Claudius that if he were not guilty, then he would not be bothered by the play.
 * Prose vs. Iambic pentameter
 * Hamlet speaks in prose for everyone but Horatio, this illustrates how his true nature is prevelent only around Horatio. Thus i do not believe that he is insane.
 * The play is in couplets. Is this to illustrate the truth or just because it is a play?
 * "Why, let the strucken deeper go weep,/the hart ungalled play./ for some must watch, while some must sleep:/thus runs the world away" (297-300). Why does Hamlet say this in rhym and rythem? it is an excerpt from the play? its italicized. Is this when Hamlet goes insane?