Hamlet - Act 1 Scene 2 (Quotes and Analysis)
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- Hamlet - Act 1 Scene 2
- "our dear brother's death"
- Insincerity from Claudius towards his very own brother
- "(Aside) A little more than kin, and less than kind"
- Hamlet is portrayed in a negative light
- "impious stubbornness, 'tis unmanly grief"
- Emasculating speech
- "to reason most absurd "
- The fault of obsessive grief is absurd when considered in the light of reason
- "retrograde to our desire"
- Contrary to our wishes
- "go not to Wittenberg"
- Diminishing, direct and urgent
- Gertrude holds love and maternal fear
- Diminishing, direct and urgent
- "Thaw and resolve itself into a dew"
- Suicide against God
- "That it should come to this! But two months dead - nay not so much, not two"
- Hamlet is reminiscing on his parents love
- "O God, a beast that wants discource of reason would have mourned longer - married with my uncle"
- Hamlet questions why Gertrude would possibly marry someone else, especially so soon after his fathers passing
- Horatio: "My lord, I came to see your father's funeral" Hamlet: "I pray thee do not mock me fellow student, I think it was to see my mother's wedding"
- Playful tone with a subtle undertone of seriousness
- "What, looked he frowningly?"
- Sceptical of his father's death and the cause of it
- "If it assume my noble father's person, I'll speak to it though hell itself should gape and bid me hold my peace. I pray you all"
- At the time attempting to speak to an evil spirit could damn his soul
- "our dear brother's death"
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