1) Hamlet delivers a soliloquy contemplating suicide and the meaning of life, expressing his deep despair and loss of passion. 2) Hamlet questions whether he can trust anyone after witnessing his uncle marry his mother shortly after his father's death. He plans to use a play to test if his uncle is truly guilty of the father's murder. 3) The play within the play confirms the king's guilt, causing him to storm out. Hamlet's madness grows as he struggles with inaction and fulfilling the ghost's demands for revenge against his uncle.

2. Who said it?

3. To whom?

4. Context

5. Language

7. And I am sick at heart.

8. Francisco

9. Opening scene

10. He has had enough

11. Starts the play

12. And then it started like a guilty thing

13. Upon a fearful summons.

14. Horatio

15. Bernadrdo/Marcellus

16. First night Horatio sees ghost

17. Ghost got scared and left when cock crowed

18. Is ghost evil?

19. So have I heard and do in part believe it.

20. But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,

21. Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill:

22. Horatio

23. Bernardo/Marcellus

24. First night Horatio sees ghost

25. -Personification-morning dressed in russet/walks

26. -Iambic-pentameter

28. Hamlet

29. Himself

30. First encounter with King(his uncle)

31. Pun-kin and kind, not like his father

32. Sees disgust at father

33. Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun.

34. Hamlet

35. King

36. First encounter with King

37. Pun-son and sun, happy

38. Disgusted/intelligent

39. Ay, madam, it is common.

40. Hamlet

41. Queen(mother)

42. First encounter with Queen

43. Pun-common(people to die)(call mother a slut)

44. Hamlet distraught because of father’s death

45. Seems, madam! nay it is; I know not "seems."

46. Hamlet

47. Queen

48. First encounter with Queen

49. Seems=pretends

50. suicidal

51. O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,

52. Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!

53. Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd

54. His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!

55. Hamlet

56. Himself

57. Right after encounter with king

58. Soliloquy

59. suicidal

60. Frailty, thy name is woman!

61. Hamlet

62. Frailty

63. After first encounter with king

64. Apostrophe-women weak

65. Disgusted with his mother

66. Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats

67. Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

68. Hamlet

69. Horatio

70. First encounter

71. None

72. (leftovers of funeral for wedding) upset about marriage

73. Foul deeds will rise,

74. Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

75. Hamlet

76. Himself

77. After hearing about ghost

78. Couplet-two line rhyme (rise/eyes)

80. Too oft before their buttons be disclosed,

81. Laertes

82. Ophelia

83. Leaving to France(Laertes-relationship with Hamlet)

84. Double entendre-extended metaphor(flower to sex)

85. Laertes love for his sister

86. Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.

87. Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.

88. Laertes

89. Ophelia

90. Leaving to France(Laertes)

91. Cauplet-rhyme(fear/near)

92. Laertes love for his sister

93. This above all: to thine ownself be true,

94. And it must follow, as the night the day,

95. Thou canst not then be false to any man.

96. Polonius

97. Laertes

98. Father to son as he leaves to France

99. Simile-words to live by

100. Ironic-going to see Polonius who is not a true man(hypocrite)

101. Ay, springes to catch woodcocks.

102. Polonius

103. Ophelia

104. Laertes leaves to France

105. Easily captured

107. That for some vicious mole of nature in them,

108. As, in their birth--wherein they are not guilty,

109. Since nature cannot choose his origin--

110. By the o'ergrowth of some complexion,

111. Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason,

112. Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens

113. The form of plausive manners, that these men,

114. Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,

115. Being nature's livery, or fortune's star,--

116. Their virtues else--be they as pure as grace,

117. As infinite as man may undergo--

118. Shall in the general censure take corruption

119. From that particular fault

120. Hamlet

121. Horatio

122. Before hamlet sees the ghost

123. Fault might be inherited, or bad luck, or from being around certain people

124. True for Hamlet

125. Angels and ministers of grace defend us!

126. Hamlet

127. Angels and ministers of grace

128. Hamlet sees ghost

129. Ejaculation-short spontaneous prayers

130. Hamlet is afraid

131. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

132. Marcellus

133. Horatio

134. Hamlet with ghost

135. Something fishy

137. A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark

138. Is by a forged process of my death

139. Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,

140. The serpent that did sting thy father's life

141. Now wears his crown.

142. Ghost

143. Hamlet

144. First encounter

145. Metaphor-Claudus wears crown stung him/one with a lie/one with poison

146. Hamlet has difficulty trusting people

147. That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;

148. Hamlet

149. Himself

150. After first encounter with ghost

151. People pretendto be your friend

152. Hamlet has difficulty trusting people

153. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

154. Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

155. Hamlet

156. Horatio

157. After Hamlets first encounter

158. Supernatural is real

159. Ghost is real

160. The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,

161. That ever I was born to set it right!

162. Hamlet

163. To spite, himself, Marcellus or Horatio

164. After encounter

165. Apostrophe-spite and right

167. With windlasses and with assays of bias,

168. By indirections find directions out:

169. Polonius

170. Rosencrantz

171. Rosencrantz leaves to France

172. Find truth, pretend to be someone else

174. Polonius

175. King and Queen

176. After Rosencrantz and Guildenstern arrive

177. People who are intelligent get to the point

178. Polonius is not brief or intelligent

179. Though this be madness, yet there is method

180. in 't

181. Polonius

182. Himself

183. First encounter with Hamlet

184. Although crazy makes sense

185. Is hamlet really crazy?

186. for there is nothing

187. either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me

188. it is a prison.

189. Hamlet

190. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

192. Denmark is a prison

193. Hamlet doesn’t see any good

194. earth, seems to

195. me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy,

196. the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament,

197. this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why,

198. it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent

199. congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is a man!

200. How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties,

201. in form and moving how express and admirable,

202. in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like

203. a god! The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!

204. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

205. Hamlet

206. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

207. First encounter

208. Earth where nothing grows, air is gases, man is dirt

209. Hamlet’s life is meaningless

210. I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is

211. southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.

212. Hamlet

213. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

214. Before Polonius enters

215. Says he is really not crazy

216. Why he feels this way-lost passion

217. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!

218. Hamlet

219. Himself

220. After players arrive(2nd soliloquy)

221. Doesn’t deserve to be a prince

222. Why he feels this way-lost passion

223. What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,

224. That he should weep for her?

225. Hamlet

226. Himself

227. After players arrive

228. Actor has passion in a fiction

229. Hamlet has no passion in real life

230. I'll have grounds

231. More relative than this: the play's the thing

232. Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.

233. Hamlet

234. Himself

235. After players arrive

236. Hamlet watches Claudius watch the play, know if he is guilty

238. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

239. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

240. Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

241. And by opposing end them?

242. Hamlet

243. Self

244. Before “to be or not to be”

245. Metaphor

246. Comparing dad to whores’ face

247. The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art,

248. Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it

249. Than is my deed to my most painted word:

250. Hamlet

251. Self

252. Hamlet “to be or not to be” speech

253. To die or not, to cope, have hope deal with it

254. Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;

255. And thus the native hue of resolution

256. Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,

257. Hamlet

258. Self

259. Hamlet “to be or not to be” speech

260. Thinking makes a coward of you

261. for to the noble mind

262. Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

263. Ophelia

264. Hamlet

265. Nunnery scene

266. The thought that counts

267. Your things used to have a meaning, not any more

268. Go thy ways to a nunnery.

269. Hamlet

270. Ophelia

271. Nunnery Scene

272. Metaphor-go and be a nun or whore

273. Doesn’t really know what he feels for her

274. O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!

275. Ophelia

279. Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.

280. King

281. Polonius

284. both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere,

285. the mirror up to nature

286. Hamlet

287. Player

289. Realism

290. Purpose is to look in mirror

291. Give me that man

292. That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him

293. In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,

294. As I do thee.

295. Hamlet

296. Horatio

297. Before play with in play

298. Complimenting Horatio, always steady

299. That's wormwood!

300. Hamlet

301. Himself

302. Paly within play

303. Bitter

304. Is Gertrude really guilty

305. What to ourselves in passion we propose,

306. The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.

307. Player King

308. Player Queen

309. Play within play

310. Overtime lose passion

311. Relates to larger motif…Hamlet has lost passion

312. The lady protests too much, methinks.

313. Queen

314. Hamlet

315. Play within play

316. Making too big of a deal

317. Queen starting to feel a little guilty

318. 'Sblood, do you think I am

319. easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what

320. instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you Summary

321. cannot play upon me.

322. Hamlet

323. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

324. After play within a play

325. Extended metaphor-cannot

326. Had enough of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s nonsense, and knows they are lying

327. I will speak daggers to her, but use none;

328. Hamlet

329. Himself

330. …before closet scene

332. Dies not alone; but, like a gulf, doth draw

333. What's near it with it: it is a massy wheel,

334. Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount,

335. To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things

336. Are mortised and adjoin'd; which, when it falls,

337. Each small annexment, petty consequence,

338. Attends the boisterous ruin.

339. Rosencrantz

340. King

341. After play

342. Simile, metaphor

343. If the king goes down, everything goes down

344. O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;

345. It hath the primal eldest curse upon't,

346. A brother's murder.

347. King

348. Himself

349. After play

350. Biblical allusion-cain and abel

351. Caludius wants to repent

352. Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven,

353. And that his soul may be as damn'd and black

354. As hell, whereto it goes.

355. Hamlet

356. Himself

357. Claudius tries to pray

358. Wants to kill him while he sins

359. Hamlet procrastinates again

360. My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:

361. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

362. King

363. Himself

364. Attempt to pray

365. Couplet

366. Claudius cannot pray because he cannot give up his crown

367. like daggers, enter in mine ears;

368. Queen

369. Hamlet

370. Closet scene

371. She understand the words(daggers/her wrong doings)

372. this visitation

373. Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.

374. Ghost

375. Hamlet

376. Closet scene

377. Metaphor-of a sword, help sharpen it

378. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place,

379. Whilst rank corruption, mining all within,

380. Infects unseen

381. Hamlet

382. Mother

383. Closet scene

384. (What will cover things up) if Hamlet is crazy she is innocent then

385. Appearance vs. reality

386. Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

387. Hamlet

388. Mother

389. Closet scene

391. foolish ear.

392. Hamlet

393. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

394. After stashing body

395. Ext. metaphor ear- you’re too stupid to understand

396. The knavish speech is a lie “sleeping”

397. The body is with the king, but the king is not with

398. the body. The king is a thing

399. Hamlet

400. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

401. After stashing body

402. Polonius is with the king(dead), King(Claudius)is not with the body(stashing body)

403. a king may go a

404. progress through the guts of a beggar.

405. Hamlet

406. King

408. Beggar ate a fish a fish, fish ate a worm, worm ate the king,

410. And spur my dull revenge!

411. Hamlet

412. Himself

413. Looking over armies of Fortin

414. Sword is dull-everything I see gets me fired up to kill Claudius

415. Hamlet is mad,he is still procrastinating

416. Even for an egg-shell.

417. Hamlet

418. Himself

419. When he is looking over the armies

420. Eggshell-land Fortinbras fights for (worthless)

421. Compares himself to Prince who will die, and he has done nothing yet for his father

422. O, from this time forth,

423. My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!

424. Hamlet

425. Himself

426. Looking over armies

427. He is tired of thinking and would rather just be

429. O Gertrude, Gertrude,

430. When sorrows come, they come not single spies

431. But in battalions. First, her father slain:

432. King

433. Gertrude

434. After Ophelia goes crazy

435. When something bad happens it comes with great ferocity

436. So you shall;

437. And where the offence is let the great axe fall.

438. I pray you, go with me.

439. King

440. Laertes

441. Laertes returns from France

443. infinite jest, of most excellent fancy:

444. Hamlet

445. Horatio

446. Graveyard scene

447. Thinking about his clown when he was a child

448. Let Hercules himself do what he may,

449. The cat will mew and dog will have his day.

450. Hamlet

451. All

452. Ophelias funeral

454. Rough-hew them how we will—

455. Hamlet

456. Horatio

457. After graveyard scene

458. Metaphor of diamond, really is destiny, God is in control

459. One with his own destiny

460. there's a special

461. providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,

462. 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be

463. now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The

464. readiness is all.

465. Hamlet

466. Horatio

467. Before fight

468. Biblical allusion Mathew-sparrow does not die unless Gods will, be ready to die

469. Hamlet is one with his destiny

470. Free me so far in your most generous thoughts,

471. That I have shot mine arrow o'er the house,

472. And hurt my brother.

473. Hamlet

474. Laertes

475. Before fight

476. Accident he killed dad

477. Hamlet wants to reconcile

478. I'll be your foil, Laertes

479. Hamlet

480. Laertes

481. Before fight

482. Pun(foil)

483. Sword

484. Opposite character

485. Background

486. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart

487. Absent thee from felicity awhile,

488. And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,

489. To tell my story.

490. Hamlet

491. Horatio

492. Hamlet dies

493. Horation is the only one who knows the truth who killed the real king

494. Order and truth must be restored

495. But I do prophesy the election lights

496. On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice;

497. Hamlet

498. Horatio

499. Hamlet dies

500. Fortinbras will be the next king

501. NO more royal family, order restored

502. Good night sweet prince:

503. And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

504. Horatio

505. Hamlet

506. When Hamlet dies

507. That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead:

508. Ambassador from England

509. To all present

510. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead