Soliloquies Flashcards
“tis an unweeded garden”
Renaissance linked to control + plan + design + regularity - sense of decline - manifested in mothers marriage
“Hyperion to a satyr”
Setting uncle + father apart, good/evil, God of sun - perfection, hhher, uncle is half man + beast, unnatural, metaphor, criticising bestial actions: humans, tension of theme of nature/ savage- reason/judge/thought =Ham VS lust, anger, ambition, desire CLAUD
Soliloquy 2
- distress on loss- lots of punctuation - shows mind is all over? Confused? Distracted
“This distracted globe”
Recognises The Globe Theatre, unordinary character, talking directly to audience, distracted society? Self aware - mind/ brain - distracted: unable to focus; triple pun- theatre/mind/state of Denmark, war, drinking, celebration instead of murder
“Is it not monstrous that this player here”
Meta theatre, compared self to actor who played Pirrus, world within world, all fake, Hamlet himself is a fictitious character in a role sham becomes real in these - rhetorical + long, dramatic doesn’t really feel vengeful? Putting on revenge hero role, questioning authenticity of own feelings - although uses revenge language- sets apart by referring to Pirus - snakes does not intent to be traditional revenge tragedy
“To be or not to be, that is the question.”
Paradoxical - not an option? Impressional language, speaks in blank verse - rational language not disjointed, pace: sane, rational, point of existence, humans have a choice
“I will speak daggers to her, but use none”
Anger towards G provokes bloodthirsty + gruesome language
“Lose not thy nature”
Ham wants to stay sane, not lose heart, humanity, rationality, purpose, has to adopt revenge hero/ role
Claudius praying
Calculating - merciless, Ham inflicting judgement on Claud, taking role of God (only person who has right to avenge - “Rev is mine” - rationality - passion) disturbing + uncharacteristic of ham - intelligent but can be wicked
Soliloquy 7- Ham recognises obstacles - philosopher
“this army of such mass and charge”
Fort soldiers don’t know why they’re sacrificing life - paradoxical - charging to death
