Paraphrasing & Quotation(s)
*Paraphrase and/or record
significant quotations. Use the
appropriate citation (Act, scene,
line) for each.
Act I
But you must know your father
lost a father, That father lost, lost
his, and the survivor bound In
filial obligation for some term
(I, ii, 89-91)
In my minds eye, Horatio (I, ii,
185)
I shall obey, my lord (I, iii, 136)
He waxes desperate with
imagination (I, iv, 87)
With juice of cursed hebona in a
vial, / And in the porches of my
ear did pour (I, v, 62-63)
Act II
If it will please you / To show us
so much gentry and good will /
As to expend your time with us
awhile / For the supply and
profit of our hope (II, ii, 21-24)
Conception in is a blessing, /
but, as your daughter may
conceive- friend, look / to t (II,
ii, 76-78)
Then are out beggars bodies,
and our monarchs / and
outstretched heroes the beggars
shadows (II, ii, 248-249)
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conclusion on Part III of the drama on stage
Shines through the contrast between Death (the way in which
Hamlet and his world in which he Hamlet doesnt
doesnt comprehend the callousness understand death, or
of others toward death understands it
differently than others)
Hamlet is speaking about seeing his Madness (ghosts,
father, but only in his imagination imagination)
(connection to the ghost?)
Throughout this whole encounter, False power/oppressed
Ophelia is seen as very meek and power
submissive to the men around her
Horatio is calling Hamlet mad and Madness (Hamlet and
speaking of his imagination when his need for revenge
theyre confronted with the ghost once creating monsters where
more they are not)
Speaking on his death, Hamlet Sr talks
about his ear being the area where the
poison was poured (symbolic of the
poison lies can do to a person)
This moment really shows that Twisting love into
Gertrude only wants to help her son, something vengeful (can
and doesnt have any alternative be seen also with
motives (unlike Claudius) Ophelia)
Another hint at Ophelia possibly being Pregnancy In one play, Hamlet
pregnant with Hamlets child points to the stomach to
(recurring throughout the play) further drive this idea of
pregnancy
Hamlet once again showing the Death (Hamlets need to
correlation between rulers and show the equality in
commoners, and taking away the death)
power by giving it to the other
I am but mad north-north-west.
When the wind is / southerly, I
know a hawk from a handsaw
(II, ii, 351-352)
Out, out, thou strumpet
Fortune! All you gods / In
general synod take away her
power, / Break all the spokes
and fellies from her wheel, /And
bowl the round nave down the
hill of heaven, /As low as to the
fiends! (II, ii, 456-460)
Act III
Get thee to a nunnery. Why
wouldst thou be a / breeder of
sinners? (III, i, 121-122)
I think nothing my lord (III, ii,
106)
Our thoughts are ours, their
ends none of our own (III, ii,
202)
Sir, I lack advancement (III, ii,
305)
Let me be cruel, not unnatural
(III, ii, 359)
The cease of majesty/ Does not
die alone, but, like a gulf, doth
draw / Whats near with it (III,
iii, 15-17)
Do not forget. This visitation /
Is but to whet thy almost blunted
purpose (III, iv, 112-113)
This the very coinage of your
brain. / This bodiless creation
ecstasy / Is very cunning in (III,
iv, 139-141)
Act IV
Ay, sir, that soaks up the kings
countenance, his / rewards, his
Another hint at Hamlet not truly being Madness (control of
mad, or having control over his madness?)
madness
Taking of the power from a woman, Oppressed Power and
which can be seen with Ophelia and Womanhood
her wit being drowned from her, and
the Queen whose voice is stamped out
by the King
Once more hinting at the fact that Pregnancy In this scene, in one of
Ophelia may be pregnant with the plays, Hamlet is very
Hamlets child aggressive and angry
with Ophelia which can
Ophelia acting once more as what a Oppressed Power really show his hatred
men expects from her (mindless) for the child they could
possibly have together
Foreshadow that one cannot escape
the fate set out before them
Hamlet knows he will die before this
all over (situational irony?)
Hamlet knows he is capable of terrible
deeds
Foreshadowing of the impending
doom of everyone
Hamlet is being swayed by his guilt Madness (madness
from his cruel words to his mother, seeking revenge
and his father is here to remind him corrupting the mind)
to only think of revenge instead of
pitying these people
Showing that Hamlet is actually just Madness (see notes from
envisioning his father in these above)
moments (probably him trying to find
a reason for his death)
Hamlet is isolating himself from his Madness and isolation
friends, believing that they are far
authorities (IV, ii, 15-16)
Diseases desperate grown / By
desperate appliance are relieved,
/ Or not at all (IV, iii, 7-9)
Your fat king and your lean
beggar is / but variable service -
two dishes, but to one table (IV,
iii, 23-24)
My mother-father and mother is
man and / wife, man and wife is
one flesh, and so, my mother
(IV, iii, 51-52)
Two thousand souls and twenty
thousand / ducats / wIll not
debate the question of this
straw. / This is th imposthume
of much wealth and peace, / That
inward breaks, and shows no
cause without / Why the man
dies (IV, iv, 24-29)
So would I a done, by yonder Ophelia once against highlighting the
sun, / An thou hadst not come to
my bed (IV, v, 65-66)
Whose worth, if praises may go
back again, / Stood challenger on
mount of the age / For her
perfections (IV, vii, 27-29)
more evil than they actually are (they
dont know Claudiuss orders, and so
only think theyre helping) and this is
portrayed with him calling them
sponges (soaking stuff up, only to be
wrung out and left to dry later on)
Claudius hinting that Hamlets Madness (born from a
madness was born out of desperation need for revenge)
to understand his fathers death
Once more Hamlet is hinting that, in Death (equality of it)
death, everyone becomes the same
(using maggots this time as the ones
who dont choose which bodies to
decompose)
This is a very interesting quote, False Power
because Hamlet is now taking
Claudiuss power away from him, and
instead giving it to Gertrude (usually
when speaking of husband and wife
become one, they become the
husband). I think this is more of an
insult to Claudius then it is a way to
give power to the Queen, though,
because Hamlet seems to be happy to
have power over other women.
This conversation, I think, was only Womanhood
put in here to show that (on a larger
scale) Hamlet understands that
fighting over one small issue will only
lead to many deaths and no
resolution. In contrast, he cannot
understand how his own act of
revenge will not turn out in his favor
Oppressed Power
double standard of men and women in
this world, also I think this song is a
way for Ophelia to tell the love story
between she and Hamlet (in which
they had sex, and as seen earlier in the
drama, he says he doesnt love her and
tells her to go to a convent)
Laertes believes in the purity of his
sister, but it is arguable that she is no
longer so pure. This shows the way
men always seem to believe that
women are far more innocent than

But long it could not be / Till
that her garments, heavy with
their drink, / Pulled the poor
wretch from her melodious lay /
To muddy death (IV, vii,
180-183)
Act V
Very strangely, they say (V, i,
135)
Dost thou think Alexander
looked o' this fashion i' th'
earth? (V, i, 173-174)
I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand
brothers/ for not with all their
quantity of love/ Make up my
sum (V, i, 247-249)
What, what a king is this! (V, ii,
67)
Was t Hamlet wronged Laertes?
Never Hamlet. / If Hamlet from
himself be ta'en away, / And
when hes not himself does
wrong Laertes, / Then Hamlet
does it not. Hamlet denies it. /
Who does it, then? His madness.
Ift be so, / Hamlet is of the
faction that is wronged. / His
madness is poor Hamlets
enemy (V, ii, 220-226)
Even while mens minds are
wild, lest more mischance / On
plots and errors happen (V, ii,
395-396)
they actually are
Its interesting that Shakespeare chose
Gertrude to tell of Ophelias death, but
I think it had to do with the fact that
theyre somewhat foil characters in
the sense that both are woman of wit
and intelligence, but are
overshadowed by the men in their
lives. Gertrude also makes this suicide
seem one of beauty and release
(slowly engulfed by the water) rather
than the violent act of killing oneself.
Pertaining to Hamlet going mad, this Madness (choice of
further points out that Hamlet went it/control of it)
mad very suddenly, which can be
connected to his need to find reason
in his fathers death.
Hamlet once more pointing out that, in Death (equality)
death, all of us are on equal playing
fields
This is the only true validation Ophelia Womanhood
gets throughout the entire drama, and
the sway she has over others. Of
course, it is only used as a way to
further fuel the fire between Laertes
and Hamlet, taking her death away
from her.
Horatio is disgusted by the madness Madness (need for
that has taken hold of Hamlet, and revenge)
how this madness has twisted him
into killing two of his longest friends
Hamlet is finally acknowledging that Madness (control of it)
he knows theres something wrong
with him, and in a way he is showing
that he has no guilty conscious
because its his madness that is
making him act in such a cruel way.
This further shows that Hamlets
hamartia is not his madness, only
because he uses it as a weapon (and
an excuse) when it comes to his need
for revenge.
Further drives in the point that all
these acts of vengeance were made
out of quick thinking, not rational, and
that the true warning of the drama is
to always think before you act on
something.