Hamlet Act 1 Scene 4 Quotes
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- Act 1 Scene 4 Quotes
- Corruption and disease
- "It is a nipping and an eager air"
- Relates to it being "bitter cold."
- Suggests that something important is going to happen again. Pathetic fallacy.
- Relates to it being "bitter cold."
- "Vicious mole of nature."
- Implies a character flaw which leads to people viewing them as evil and leading to their downfall.
- Draws similarities between Hamlet and Claudius.
- "Vicious suggests that it cannot be obscured or hidden.
- Implies a character flaw which leads to people viewing them as evil and leading to their downfall.
- "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
- The rotten core of Denmark could foreshadow the corruption of every character in the coming events, until it ends in a "cleansing" of this corruption.
- Could imply that the ghost is the corruption, and this corruption spreads to Hamlet.
- "It is a nipping and an eager air"
- Religion
- "Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell."
- Suggests how Hamlet's father is stuck in a purgatory state.
- Also implies how Hamlet is willing to suffer hell so long as he can talk to his father.
- "Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell."
- Appearance v reality
- "Vicious suggests that it cannot be obscured or hidden.
- Trust/distrust
- "Thou comest in such a questionable shape."
- Despite "blasts from hell" Hamlet trusts the ghost because it resembles his father.
- "Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell."
- Suggests how Hamlet's father is stuck in a purgatory state.
- Also implies how Hamlet is willing to suffer hell so long as he can talk to his father.
- Foreshadows the influence his father will have over him for the rest of the play.
- Could also imply that he is a manipulator, and not how Hamlet describes him.
- "Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell."
- Despite "blasts from hell" Hamlet trusts the ghost because it resembles his father.
- "He waxes desperate with imagination."
- Appearance v reality
- Perhaps the ghost isn't really Hamlet Sr, but Hamlet is so desperate to see him again that he imagines it.
- The ghost only has to look like Hamlet's father for him to die for him, showing how much power appearances have in Hamlet.
- When the moon "waxes" it appears larger, suggesting how Hamlet is preoccupied by the appearance of the ghost, but it could just be an exaggeration from his imagination.
- Appearance v reality
- "Thou comest in such a questionable shape."
- Corruption and disease
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