Some of the quotations from Hamlet
( This the famous quotation it sounds like dilemma of the play, so it says life is worth living can you or should you go on when things seem too hard. Hamlet says we go on, because we scared of death and we don’t know what will happen if we kill ourselves.)
“
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
(Act
1, Scene 4)
( I think this quotation doesn’t mean about ghost,
this is a sign something wrong for all the kingdom)
“
Neither be borrower nor a lender be” ( Act 1, Scene 3)
(This is when Polonius says accidently in ironic
statements. Taking literally it’s true and good advice to son Laertes, but the
guy is giving this advice is fool so how much can you trust this)
“Brevity
is the soul of wit”
(Act
2, Scene 2)
( Polonius quotation again …)
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These are good, Polonius occasionally does give very good advice! I like how Gertrude cuts him short while he's blethering on about Hamlet in Act II, Scene 2, with (I imagine) a rather blunt "More matter with less art", one of my favourite moments in the play.
ReplyDeleteHamlet's soliluquys (one day I'll learn how to spell that) are of course exceptional, the one that goes "What a rogue and peasant slave am I" (forgot where it was, somewhere in Act 3 I think) is also wonderful and a good commentary on the nature of theatre/literature: "What is Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, that he should weep for her!"
Anyhow, Hamlet has an abundance of very good lines, we'd be here all night if we were to list them all :)
-- Idil
Is anybody collecting a few of the great jokes in Hamlet? How about the gravediggers' scene, for example?
ReplyDeleteReaders of The Trojan Women in the Classics class will have no trouble understanding the reference to Hecuba. And if they wept, then what was Hecuba to them?
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