ACT III KING (Sc. 1, Ln. 57-62) How smart a lash that speech doth give my Conscience.

The harlots cheek beautied with plastring art Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it Than is my deed to my most painted word. O heavy burden! HAMLET (Sc. 1, Ln. 64-68) To be or not to bethat is the question: Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And, by opposing them, end them. HAMLET (Sc. 1, Ln. 131-132) Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? HAMLET (Sc. 1, Ln.154-162) I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. You jig and amble, and you lisp; you nickname Gods creatures and make your wantoness your ignorance. Go to, Ill no more ont. It hath made me mad. I say we will have no marriage. HAMLET Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: ... Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature PLAYER KING (Sc.2, Ln. 233-236) Our wills and fates do so contrary run That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own. So think thy wilt no second husband wed, But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead. HAMLET Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on. The king is revealing in this aside that he is guilty over killing his brother. Harlot: prostitute

Hamlet is thinking not about his need to kill Claudius, but the larger purpose of life should he act to make life worthwhile or passively accept and reflect?

Hamlet to Ophelia stay a virgin forever he tells her Nunnery: convent Hamlet blaming women for enticing men sexually and pretending to be innocent Wantoness: sexuality

Hamlets instructions to the players -- presumed to be Shakespeares comments on good acting.

In the play within a play, the King tells his wife that we usually arent able to do what we want to do

Hamlets comments just before he goes to meet mother. He certainly doesnt seem to have any qualms about killing now.

HAMLET (Sc. 3, Ln. 94-100) When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage, Or in th incestuous pleasure of his bed, At game a-swearing, or about some act That has no relish of salvation in t Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven, And that his soul may be as damned and black As hell, whereto it goes. KING (Sc 3 Ln. 55But, O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn? Forgive me my foul murder? That cannot be, since I am still possessed Of those effects for which I did the murder: My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen May one be pardoned and retain th offense? HAMLET: Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See, what a grace was seated on thisHyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man: This was your husband. Look you now, what follows: Here is your husband; like a mildew'd ear, Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes? You cannot call it love; for at your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment: and what judgment Would step from this to this? HAMLET: For this same lord, I do repent: but heaven hath pleased it so, To punish me with this and this with me, That I must be their scourge and minister. I will bestow him, and will answer well The death I gave him. So, again, good night. I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins and worse remains behind. HAMLET Let it work; For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard: and 't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines, And blow them at the moon: O, 'tis most sweet, When in one line two crafts directly meet.

Hamlet considers killing Claudius, but decides not to do it while Claudius is praying he doesnt want Claudius to die while he is cleansing his soul he wants him to die while sinning and go straight to Hell.

Claudius is trying to pray, but cant really repent because he is still possessed of those effects for which [he] did the murder.

Hamlet is lecturing his mother, showing her two pictures, one of King Hamlet, one of Claudius and asking how she could go from the greatness of her first husband to villainy of Claudius.

Metaphor: King Hamlet was a fair mountain and Claudius is a moor.

Hamlet is referring to dead Polonius. He says, God has punished me with Polonius and him with me. Scourge: punishment

The next to last line is a nice example of paradox a statement that contradicts itself but contains truth. Hamlet reveals to his mother that he knows that Claudius is plotting against him and is sending him to England to get rid of him permanently. He says he will turn the plan against them: The bomber will be blown up with his own bomb.