Hamlet - Act 1 Scene 4 (Quotes and Analysis)
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- Hamlet - Act 1 Scene 4
- "air bites shrewdly, it is very cold", "nipping and an eager air"
- Anticipation of the ghost - violence
- Unsure of the time - expectation
- Anticipation of the ghost - violence
- "A flourish of trumpets and two pieces goes off"
- Scares audience - interrupts the scene
- "drains his draughts of Rhenish"
- Claudius seems at odds with the seriousness
- "pith and marrow of our attribute", "vicious mole of nature in them"
- Harmartia: Hamlet is criticising men and a tragic flaw
- Seemingly describing a tragic hero
- Foreshadows and ironic
- Harmartia: Hamlet is criticising men and a tragic flaw
- "carrying I say the stamp of one defect", "general censure take corruption"
- Tradition of drinking, ruins the country - Harmartia
- "Ghost beckons Hamlet"
- Looking for guidance - hasn't come to terms with his father's death
- The ambiguity inspires him to speak to the ghost - seek answers
- "Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned"
- First impulse is that it is an evil spirit
- Ambiguity of the ghost
- "such a questionable shape that I will speak to thee"
- Hesitation in it being a good or bad preminision
- "Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws "
- Death presented powerfully
- "By heaven I'll make a ghost of him that lets me"
- Coping mechanism - making a joke
- Arrogant humour, making light of the situation
- Dark humour
- Arrogant humour, making light of the situation
- Coping mechanism - making a joke
- Hamlet's speech sounds rehearsed
- Strange reaction
- Ends in 3 Question's (why & therefore means the same thing) - holding him back (pause)
- "We" - looks for support
- "might deprive your soverrignty of reason, and draw you into madness"
- Madness is subjective
- Scene is a mechanism for getting Hamlet alone with the ghost
- Sanity under scrutiny
- "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"
- Motif of disease and corruption
- "air bites shrewdly, it is very cold", "nipping and an eager air"
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