ACT I
Scene III
- Hamlet likes Ophelia
- "toy in blood" feeling, feels good,but not a good idea
- Laertes is giving Ophelia advice
- watch out ,he might like her now, but he's a prince and has a duty to the state
- brotherly love, but he understands this
- She'll follow his advice as best as she can, but he can't do whatever he wants
- Polonius comes to give advice to Laertes
- he's giving good advice
- think before speaking
- quality over quantity friendship
- integrity
- cautel = caution
Scene IV
- King is having a party and Hamlet knows that they're looked down upon by other kingdoms
- they're all at night watch, ghost comes back, Marcellus, Hamlet, Horatio there
- the two won't let him go
- they think he'll be crazy for going with/following the king's ghost
- "something is rotten in the state of Denmark"
Scene V
- King speaks to Hamlet
- he's in purgatory for his misdeeds, if he told the specifics, Hamlet would freak
- he was murdered
- poison poured in ear while he was sleeping in the garden
- it was a "snake", the snake wears the crown
- Claudius seduced Gertrude before old Hamlet was killed
- he wasn't allowed last rights
(confession) and died in a state of sin, therefore purgatory
- not young Hamlet's decision to punish
Gertrude
- Old tells young to get revenge
- "I have sworn't" Hamlet
- Hamlet, for the rest of the play has to be a man, keep to his
morals, kill his uncle, inner turmoil to balance all
- Horatio and Marcellus are made to swear not to remember this, or
whatever they saw
- "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are
dream't in your philosophy"
- nothing will make him say it, say
nothing at all
- "the time is out of joint; o cursed spite, that ever I was
born to set it right"
- His reason for being,purpose in life
from here on out, Hamlet kill Claudius
- Revenge itself is self-destructive
- every day he doesn't do it, he feels
lesser
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