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
    • "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
    • "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
    • 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

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