Hamlet Act 2 Flashcards
Motif of Authenticity
“As if he had been looked out of hell To speak horrors”
Motif of Power of Language
“For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak the most miraculous organ”
Motif of Purpose
“The spirt that I’ have seen May be a devil, and the devil hath power”
Irony
“Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit”
Conceit
“Nor the soles of her shoe”
Hamlets Sarcastic Wit:
three examples?
- words words words
- let her not walk in the sun
- excellent well you are a fishmonger
Espionage examples:
3?
- polonius - reynaldo - lare tes
- queen and king - r + g - hamlet
- queen king polonius - ophelia bate - hamlet
poem connection:
motif of imperfection
poem: mans dominion - apologizes for human kind not being able to accept creatures and all about the broken social union
hamlet: hamlet is upset at himself for not dealing with his fathers death properly after seeing the actor put on tears for fake stuff yet he doesn’t feel those exact emotions for his own father because he is told to act normal by parents
poem:
motif of plans gone astray
poem: “the best laid scenes, o mice and men gang aft agley ” - even the best plans go wrong
hamlet: “when the wind is southernly, i can tell a hawk from a handsaw” when hamlet discovers that R and G are spies sent by his mother and father, the queen and kings plan goes astray and results in a play being made to discover claudius’ conscious
And with a look so piteous in purport asia if he had been looked out of hell to speak horrors, he comes before me”
Ophelia
I break you instantly to visit my too much changed son
Gertrude
Thine evermore…whilst this machine is to him, Hamlet
Polonius
There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so
Hamlet
I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space
Hamlet
is it not monstrous that this player here…could force his soul so to his own conceit and have tears in his eyes
Hamlet
