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- 1all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternityInevitability of death, Hamlet's belief in the afterlife
- 2’tis unmanly grief; It shows a will most incorrect to heaven; A heart unfortified, a mind impatient;Idea that men should not show pain, and should be almost inhumanly beings in the sense that in Paradise Lost Adam is condemned for not overpowering Eve's, he says he resigned his manhood in doing so.
- 3Frailty thy name is womanFemales as the 'in firmer sex'. Women's mistakes are portrayed as being due to their divine position as though they are not capable of being as noble as men.
- 4With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not, nor it cannot come to good; But break my heart,—for I must hold my tongue!Its the repression of his anger which enables this melancholy to consume him. Possibly link to how Victor cannot tell anyone the truth about the murderer. Also incest can be linked to Victor.
- 5His greatness weigh’d, his will is not his own; For he himself is subject to his birthAs a prince he cannot just look out for himself but for the countries people. Laertes argues that this means he cannot be a good husband for this reason. Link to how the duchess is considered immoral for putting her body natural over her body politic by remarrying as a sovereign.
- 6Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice: Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment. This above all,—to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.Words of wisdom from Polonius to Laertes
- 7There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.Emotion and irrationality over reason/rationality
- 8To put an antic disposition on,—(Hamlet) Though this be madness, yet there is a method in’s.— (Polonius) Was not like madness. There’s something in his soul O’er which his melancholy sits on brood; I essentially am not in madness, But mad in craft.Shows Hamlet is playing the role of a madman, almost a twisted fool role.
- 9to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.Honesty
- 10The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dreamNo ambition really ends in achieving ones dream as once it is reached it is no longer a dream. Link to how Victor's ambition for creating life is no longer a dream when it is finished.
- 11there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so, to me it is a prison.Subjectivity, and hamlets belief that Denmark is a prison
- 12I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.Would just live in ones mind if it were not tainted with tormenting thoughts. Perhaps talking of suicide
and hell. - 13Give me that man That is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him In my heart’s coreRuled by our passions and desires - Ambition
- 14a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.fools believe lies or anything they are told
- 15So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.Like olivias murderous guilt - Guilt cannot be hidden, we have a self destructive nature
- 16To what base uses we may returnFutility of earthly glory
- 17There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,Everything happens for a reason
- 18since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is’t to leave betimes?If you cant perceive death, why fear it?
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