ESSAY

Hamlet’s Extracts

Act 1 scene 3
Sexist advice
Unofficial romance
Hamlet playing with his feelings
Laertes seems to be deeply worry about hamlet and Ophelia relationship
Inconsistent in his reasons
LAERTES
For Hamlet and the trifling of his favor, Commented [sn1]: insignificant
Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, Commented [sn2]: do not consider it serious
A violet in the youth of primy nature,
Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,
The perfume and suppliance of a minute.
No more. Commented [sn3]: the affair hamlet and Ophelia have
won’t last

Think it no more.
For nature, crescent, does not grow alone
In thews and bulk, but, as this temple waxes,
The inward service of the mind and soul
Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now,
And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch
The virtue of his will, but you must fear.
His greatness weighed, his will is not his own,
For he himself is subject to his birth.
He may not, as unvalued persons do,
Carve for himself, for on his choice depends
The safety and health of this whole state.
And therefore must his choice be circumscribed
Unto the voice and yielding of that body
Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you,
It fits your wisdom so far to believe it
As he in his particular act and place
May give his saying deed, which is no further
Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal.
Then weigh what loss your honor may sustain
If with too credent ear you list his songs,
Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open
To his unmastered importunity.
Fear it, Ophelia. Fear it, my dear sister,
And keep you in the rear of your affection,
Out of the shot and danger of desire.
The chariest maid is prodigal enough
Commented [sn4]: as men grow, they do not only grow in
physique but they mature in mind
Commented [sn5]: besmirch-damage reputation
doth-do
Perhaps now he loves you now because neither la caurtela
ni el territorio are his number one priorities
Commented [sn6]: His will was choosen for him when he
was born. As he is a prince he has obligations and he cannot
choose who to marry (marriage is often arranged)
Commented [sn7]: Telling they are insignificant people
compare to hamlet
Commented [sn8]: If Hamlet says he loves her, she has to
percibe or distinguish (wise) that the meaning of hamlet’s
words are as meaningful as the state of Denmark allows
them to. (he has more important or serious responsabilities,
canot be attached to a women that is insignificant)
Commented [sn9]: List of things that might happen if she
acts naïve and continues with hamlet. (they are all negative.
Euphanism- open youy chaste treasure open-for sex
Importunity- persistent
Unmastered- power to use something
IMPORTANCE OF VIRGINITY
Commented [sn10]: Do not expose yourself, wait. Laertes
wants to protect her image. IMPORTANCE OF VIRGINITY
If she unmask her beauty to the moon.
Virtue itself ’scapes not calumnious strokes.
The canker galls the infants of the spring
Too oft before their buttons be disclosed.
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth,
Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Be wary, then. Best safety lies in fear.
Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.
OPHELIA
I shall the effect of this good lesson keep
As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother,
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven
Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own rede.
OPHELIA
'Tis in my memory locked,
And you yourself shall keep the key of it.
POLONIUS
Marry, well bethought.
'Tis told me he hath very oft of late
Given private time to you, and you yourself
Have of your audience been most free and bounteous.
If it be so as so ’tis put on me—
95And that in way of caution—I must tell you,
You do not understand yourself so clearly
As it behooves my daughter and your honor.
What is between you? Give me up the truth
OPHELIA
He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders
Of his affection to me.
POLONIUS
Affection! Pooh, you speak like a green girl,
Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.
Do you believe his “tenders,” as you call them?
POLONIUS
Marry, I’ll teach you. Think yourself a baby
That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay,
Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly,
Commented [sn11]:
Even the prudent virgin in wasteful, reckless, imprudent if
she Exposes her naked body
Commented [sn12]: Virtue- mantian moral standards,
integrirty
Calaminous -defamatory statements In order to damage
someone reputation
Only a person who is completely virtuous (untouched) is not
judged
Commented [sn13]: Canker- a destructive fungal disease
Or worm
Galls- when plants are infected
Break the skin
This plant are the liitle or fragile plants in the spring before
they blossom
Metaphor early spring flowers
Buttons unopened bud
Ophelia is the bud that is broken by hamlet
Commented [sn14]: This disease is nearby,
Commented [sn15]:
Commented [sn16]: Prefers to scare her. What people
thought in that eges
Commented [sn17]: Young people often loose thei self
control. Young people who aren’t watch loose their control.
Commented [sn18]: Ophelia shows how unfair women is
treated, or at least herself. Altough Laertes is trying to
protect her, he is being hypocrite as he commits those same
sins he is telling Ophelia not to commit.
Libertine- a man who behaves without moral prinicplaes.
The advice he is giving to Ophelia, Laertes himself does not
applies it and comit sin
Commented [sn19]: This shows that she relies in Laertes
and he has the control over her. He is the one that allows
her to be with Hamlet. Control. ...
Commented [sn20]: Showing concern
Bounteous- generausaly given
Commented [sn21]: INFERIORITY
You don’t understand yourself so clearly
Behoover- be incumbent on ...
Commented [sn22]: She responds, submissive. Obeys to
what Polonius or Laertes told her to do.
Commented [sn23]: Mock her. He is telling her that she is
naïve
Perilous- of danger, at risk
...
Commented [sn24]: Unsifted- not inspected
Commented [sn25]: They don’t believe hamlet has pure
intentions with Ophelia
Commented [sn26]: Tender- offer or proposals
Sterling- authentic ...
Commented [sn27]: Telling her she could have a better
man or a better offer
Or—not to crack the wind of the poor phrase,
Running it thus—you’ll tender me a fool Commented [sn28]: Tender- showing concern
Fool-idiot
She will leave him like a fool
OPHELIA
0My lord, he hath importuned me with love
In honorable fashion.

POLONIUS
Ay, “fashion” you may call it. Go to, go to. Commented [sn29]: Dosnet take her seriously. He thinks
this relationship is an affair wont last
POLONIUS
Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know, Commented [sn30]: Springes- capture, catch
When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul Woodcoch- bird
Metaphor she is the bird that is being trap, Naïve fool
Lends the tongue vows. These blazes, daughter,
Giving more light than heat, extinct in both
Commented [sn31]: Prodigal- freely and carelessly
Even in their promise as it is a-making, When a man is lead by passion it is common to make stupid
You must not take for fire. From this time promises
Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence. Commented [sn32]: The promises (supuestamente fuego)
Set your entreatments at a higher rate are a lie they give more light than fire. The fire is not real
Than a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet,
Believe so much in him that he is young, Commented [sn33]: Scant- barely sufficient
And with a larger tether may he walk Maiden- a girl not married, a virgin
Than may be given you. In few, Ophelia, Entreat- implore, negotiations for surrender
Do not believe his vows, for they are brokers Parley- negotiation
Is a command nmot a parley
Not of that dye which their investments show, Don’t surrender to hamlet if he want to talk to you
But mere implorators of unholy suits,
Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds, Commented [sn34]: Tether- leash (correa) restricts
The better to beguile. This is for all: movement.
I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth, He is telling that Hamlet is allowed to do much more things
Have you so slander any moment leisure, tanh her (it cannbe for being a boy or because he is a
prince)
As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet. Do not believe in hamlet when he says he loves you
135Look to ’t, I charge you. Come your ways.
Commented [sn35]: The vows manage Ophelia

Knm;km;m; Commented [sn36]: Implore- beg or ask

It is not what it seems, the appearance
OPHELIA Mere implorators- pimps (control prostitutes)
I shall obey, my lord
Commented [sn37]: Pious-devout
sincere but unlikely to be fulfilled.
ACT 1 scene 4 Bwds- a women in charge of a brother (bond)
Pg 58
HORATIO Commented [sn38]: The conclusion
What if it tempts you to jump into the sea, sir? Or to the terrifying cliff that Slander any moment leisure- bring disgrace upon any spare
overhangs the water, where it takes on some other horrible form that drives you time.
PoLONIUS is telling Ophelia not to speak to Hmalet even in
insane. Think about it. The edge of the sea makes people feel despair even at the best the spare time
of times. All they have to do is look into its depths and hear it roar far below. Come in your words- come on
Commented [sn39]: After his father has an accusatory and
Act 1 scene 5 commanding or angry tone.
Pg 60 She obeys immediately
GHOST Commented [sn40]: Seems to mirror Ophelias suicide
Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,
With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts—
O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power
So to seduce!—won to his shameful lust
The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen. Commented [sn41]: Gertrude is portrayed as a trophy
O Hamlet, what a falling off was there! incapable of deciding.
From me, whose love was of that dignity
That it went hand in hand even with the vow
50I made to her in marriage, and to decline
Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor
To those of mine.
But virtue, as it never will be moved,
Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven, Commented [sn42]: Sexual behavior consider offensive
So lust, though to a radiant angel linked,
Will sate itself in a celestial bed
And prey on garbage. Commented [sn43]: Lust overpowered her and now the
(..) celestial link does not exist
Sate- satiate
Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand
Of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatched,
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled.
No reckoning made, but sent to my account
With all my imperfections on my head.
Oh, horrible, oh, horrible, most horrible!
If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not.
Let not the royal bed of Denmark be
A couch for luxury and damnèd incest. Commented [sn44]: lust
But howsoever thou pursuest this act,
Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive
Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge
To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once. Commented [sn45]: leave your mother alone let god do
The glowworm shows the matin to be near, what he has to do
90And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
Adieu, adieu, adieu. Remember me.

Hamlet
Pg61
(..)
O most pernicious woman! Commented [sn46]: harmful, evil, injourious
O villain, villain, smiling, damnèd villain!
My tables!—Meet it is I set it down
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
At least I’m sure it may be so in Denmark. (writes) Commented [sn47]: women portrayed as liers,

Act 2 scene 1

Puede haber algo imortante, menciona a Ophelia

Hamlet comes to Ophelia agitated after seeing and speaking to the ghost for the first
time. Ophelia tells Polonius which he thinks he is acting like that because he fells bad
for being repelled by Ophelia.

OPHELIA
No, my good lord. But as you did command
I did repel his fetters and denied
110His access to me. Commented [sn48]: obeys what Polonius says

POLONIUS
That hath made him mad.
I am sorry that with better heed and judgment
I had not quoted him. I feared he did but trifle
And meant to wreck thee. But beshrew my jealousy!
By heaven, it is as proper to our age
115To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions
As it is common for the younger sort
To lack discretion. Come, go we to the king.
This must be known, which, being kept close, might move
More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Commented [sn49]: now he wants to talk about it publicly
120Come. because he thinks Hamlet changed his motives

GERTRUDE
Good gentlemen, he hath much talked of you.
20And sure I am two men there are not living
To whom he more adheres. 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,
25Your visitation shall receive such thanks
As fits a king’s remembrance. Commented [sn50]: she is asking thme to take information
from Hamlet to know why he is acting like that and they will
compensate with money
Act 2 scene 2

GERTRUDE
I doubt it is no other but the main:
His father’s death and our o'erhasty marriage. Commented [sn51]: recognizes she married quickly

POLONIUS
hus it remains, and the remainder thus. Perpend.
I have a daughter—have while she is mine— Commented [sn52]: Possesive commentary, treats her
Who in her duty and obedience, mark, inferior. INFERIORITY
Hath given me this. Now gather and surmise.
(reads a letter) “To the celestial and my soul’s idol, the most beautified Ophelia”—
Commented [sn53]: Explicity shows how Ophelia obeys
That’s an ill phrase, a vile phrase. “Beautified” is a vile phrase. But you shall hear. Polonius
Thus: (reads the letter)“In her excellent white bosom, these,” etc.—
Commented [sn54]: Bosom- chest
(..) Portraing her physical beauty only what mattered in those
This in obedience hath my daughter shown me, days
And more above, hath his solicitings,
As they fell out by time, by means, and place,
All given to mine ear. Commented [sn55]: Again recalls on Ophelia being
obedient
I would fain prove so. But what might you think,
When I had seen this hot love on the wing—
As I perceived it, I must tell you that,
125Before my daughter told me—what might you,
Or my dear majesty your queen here, think,
If I had played the desk or table-book,
Or given my heart a winking, mute and dumb,
Or looked upon this love with idle sight?
130What might you think? No, I went round to work,
And my young mistress thus I did bespeak:
“Lord Hamlet is a prince out of thy star.
This must not be.” And then I prescripts gave her, Commented [sn56]: Inferiority social inferiority)
That she should lock herself from his resort,
135Admit no messengers, receive no tokens.
Which done, she took the fruits of my advice;
And he, repelled—a short tale to make— Commented [sn57]: Obedient Ophelia
Fell into a sadness, then into a fast,
Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness,
(..)

POLONIUS
PG73
At such a time I’ll loose my daughter to him. Commented [sn58]: Treating Ophelia like some kind of
155(to CLAUDIUS) Be you and I behind an arras then, animal
Is from his property
Mark the encounter. (..)

Pg 74
HAMLET
Let her not walk i' th' sun. Conception is a blessing, but, as your daughter may
conceive—Friend, look to Commented [sn59]: Mocking Ophelia. Women are ment to
79 reproduct and have children.
Mocking Polonius overprotective attitude
HAMLET
O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou! Commented [sn60]: the point of Hamlet's allusion is
80 that Polonius, like Jephthah, sacrifices his daughter to
his own ambitions. The story of Jephthah appears in
HAMLET Judges 11: Jephthah, "a mighty man of valour," was
'Twas Aeneas' tale to Dido and thereabout of it, especially where he speaks of Priam’s made "head and captain" of the Israelites in return for
slaughter. If it live in your >memory, begin at this line—Let me see, let me see— defending the Israelites from the Ammonites. On the
eve of his battle with the Ammonites, Jephthah "vowed
The rugged Pyrrhus, like th' Hyrcanian beast— a vow unto the LORD," that if he were granted victory,
415It is not so. It begins with Pyrrhus— "whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to
The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms, meet me . . . shall surely be the LORD'S, and I will offer
it up for a burnt offering." Jephthah was victorious, and
Black as his purpose, did the night resemble when he returned to his house, "behold, his daughter
When he lay couchèd in the ominous horse, came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances:
Hath now this dread and black complexion smeared and she was his only child." Jephthah, full of woe, tells
his daughter of his vow, and she answers, "do to me
420With heraldry more dismal. Head to foot according to that which hath proceeded out of thy
Now is he total gules, horridly tricked mouth." Jephthah's daughter only asks that for two
With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, months she may "go up and down the mountains, and
bewail my virginity." Jephthah sends her away to fulfill
Baked and impasted with the parching streets, her wish, and then she returns to him, "who did with
That lend a tyrannous and damnèd light her according to his vow which he had vowed."
425To their lord’s murder. Roasted in wrath and fire,
And thus o'ersizèd with coagulate gore,
With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus
Old grandsire Priam seeks.
So, proceed you. Commented [sn61]: Allusion leer la story
(…)
HAMLET
It shall to the barber's, with your beard. Prithee,
 say on: he's for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he sleeps: say on: come to Hecuba. Commented [sn62]: Importante busacar
FIRST PLAYER
5But who, ah woe, who had seen the moblèd queen— Commented [sn63]: Indinstict, soft, wrapped up

FIRST PLAYER
Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames
With bisson rheum, a clout upon that head Commented [sn64]: Bisson rheum- tears
470Where late the diadem stood, and for a robe, Weak only cry that would exstinguish the flames with her
tears
About her lank and all o'erteemèd loins, She was crying Inferior, they don’t fight
A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up—
Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steeped,
'Gainst fortune’s state would treason have pronounced.
475But if the gods themselves did see her then
When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport
In mincing with his sword her husband’s limbs,
The instant burst of clamor that she made,
(Unless things mortal move them not at all)
480Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven,
And passion in the gods. Commented [sn65]: Made the blazing stars weep
Passion- grief
Hamlet
Pg 84
(…)
That I, the son of a dear father murdered,
Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,
Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words
And fall a-cursing like a very drab,
A scullion! Fie upon ’t, foh! Commented [sn66]: He is comparing himself with a
prostitute but in an offensive way. For not being able to
express the anger he has.
Act 3 scene 1 While a player is crying over something imaginative
Pg86 Scullion- a servant assigned the most menial kitchen tasks.
KING He is cursing like a whore
Sweet Gertrude, leave us too;
GERTRUDE
I shall obey you. Commented [sn67]: She obeys what The king told her to do

POLONIUS
Ophelia, walk you here. (toCLAUDIUS) Gracious, so please you,
45We will bestow ourselves. (to OPHELIA)Read on this book
That show of such an exercise may color
Your loneliness. Commented [sn68]: Ordering Ophelia

Hamlet
The fair Ophelia!—Nymph, in thy orisons Commented [sn69]: Beautiful virgin in the water,
Be all my sins remembered. (foreshadowing!!) young women,

Pg88
OPHELIA
My honored lord, you know right well you did,
And with them, words of so sweet breath composed
As made the things more rich. Their perfume lost,
ake these again, for to the noble mind
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
There, my lord.
HAMLET
That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your
beauty.
OPHELIA
Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?
HAMLET
Ay, truly, for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a
bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness. This was
sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. I did love you once.
HAMLET
Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself
indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my
mother had not borne me.
Believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. Where’s your father?
HAMLET
If thou dost marry, I’ll give thee this plague for thy dowry. Be thou as chaste as ice, as
pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go. Farewell. Or,
if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters
you make of them. To a nunnery, go, and quickly too. Farewell.
Commented [sn70]: She seems to be sad as Hamlet does
not accepts what he wrote (giving back his gifts.
Commented [sn71]: She is beautiful but not being honest
Honest- honorable
Commented [sn72]: Does beauty has better dealings than
honesty. Reflecting upon how women were portrayed.
People valoreated their beauty not their honety or morals.
Beautiful soul has to have a beautiful exterior
Commented [sn73]: Hamlet says the power of beauty will
prostitute truthfulness. What he means, in other words, is
that beauty will make men lie.
He's arguing that beauty will defeat truth. Beauty will make
men lie, he says. The lie he means was when he told her he
loved her. He's trying to argue that when he said he loved
her, he didn't realize at the time that it was really her
beauty defeating his truthfulness
Physical beauty has the power of corruption
Commented [sn74]: Convent de monjas
Don’t ever get married
Nunnery- prostitution
Critiziing women for makin men sin and lie
Commented [sn75]: Try not to sin,
Monja- virgin not corrupted by sin

HAMLET Commented [sn76]: You will be a sinner after you marry

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. God has given you one face and you Commented [sn77]: If you marry marry a fool so as to not
make yourselves another. You jig and amble, and you lisp, you nickname God’s notice when you cheat on him
creatures and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I’ll no more on ’t. It hath Depicting women as SINNERS
ALL WOMEN are untrustful Gertrude also connected
made me mad. I say, we will have no more marriages. Those that are married
already, all but one, shall live. The rest shall keep as they are. To a nunnery, go. Commented [sn78]: Commenting on make-up, false
apperances.

OPHELIA Commented [sn79]: Jig- dance

Amable- stroll, walk slowly
Wantonness- promiscuous, inmoral
And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, Your promiscuity is your ignorance, act like your sexual
That sucked the honey of his music vows, attractive is innocent
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason Women- sinners
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh; Commented [sn80]: Reffering to Caludious and Gertrude
That unmatched form and feature of blown youth
160Blasted with ecstasy. Oh, woe is me,
T' have seen what I have seen, see what I see! Commented [sn81]: Deeply sorrowful

Act 3 scene 2
Pg94
HAMLET
100No, good mother. Here’s metal more attractive. (sits next to OPHELIA ) Commented [sn82]: Objectifying

HAMLET
Do you think I meant country matters? Commented [sn83]: Sexual intercourse
OPHELIA
I think nothing, my lord.
HAMLET
That’s a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.
HAMLET
110Nothing. Commented [sn84]: Vulva in sheaksperean days (concha)
Ophelia then thinks he was jocking
HAMLET
look you, how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within these two
hours.
PG 95
THE DUMB SHOW
rumpets sound. The dumb show begins
Enter a King and a Queen very lovingly, the Queen embracing him and he her. She
kneels and makes show of protestation unto him. She, seeing him asleep, leaves
him. Anon comes in a fellow, takes off his crown, kisses it, pours poison in the King’s
ears, and exits. The Queen returns, finds the King dead, and makes passionate
action. The Poisoner, with some two or three Mutes, comes in again, seeming to Commented [sn85]: Only cries she is sad sorrowful
lament with her. The dead body is carried away. The Poisoner woos the Queen with
gifts. She seems loath and unwilling awhile, but in the end accepts his love Commented [sn86]: Gives her gifts and then flaas in love,

HAMLET
As woman’s love. Commented [sn87]: He complained that the prologue was
Pg 96 short so he said this to Ophelia
Woman generalisation
PLAYER QUEEN
Oh, confound the rest!
Such love must needs be treason in my breast.
In second husband let me be accursed!
None wed the second but who killed the first. Commented [sn88]: The play is a parallelism of the
marriage of Gertrude and Claudious so it is telling Gertude
that he betrayed king Hamlet by marring another man
PLAYER QUEEN Accursed- horrible
The instances that second marriage move Telling she was part of the killing of king hamlet
Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.
A second time I kill my husband dead
When second husband kisses me in bed. Commented [sn89]: base respects of
thrift: dishonorable considerations of monetary or
other material advantages.
PLAYER QUEEN Every time you are kissing with the second husband you are
Nor earth to me give food, nor heaven light. killing all over agin the first one.
205Sport and repose lock from me day and night. Telling Gertrude Is only interested in money
To desperation turn my trust and hope.
An anchor’s cheer in prison be my scope.
Each opposite that blanks the face of joy
Meet what I would have well and it destroy.
210Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife
If, once a widow, ever I be wife!

HAMLET
If she should break it now! Commented [sn90]: Hamlet knows she would break the
HAMLET vow, she is a liar
I could interpret between you and your love, if I could see the puppets dallying. Commented [sn91]: I could act as a puppet master to you
and your lover, if I could see what you were both duing
She is predictable, she is uder control all the time, she needs
HAMLET someone tobtell her what to do.
It would cost you a groaning to take off mine edge. Hamlet is criticizing how Polonius an Leartes told her what
HAMLET to do.
So you mist take your husbands.—(…) Commented [sn92]: Groaning referring to makin love.
Hamlet is mocking Ophelia because she told him Keen
GERTRUDE
My lord, how are you feeling? Commented [sn93]: Women vows are false fijste en la 84
Pg 99 Commented [sn94]: May be connected to the patrt where
GUILDENSTERN Hamlet tells Ophelia that her beauty makes her ignorant.
The queen your mother, in most great affliction of spirit, hath sent me to you. Gertrude in a way is also ignorant as she supposedly don’t
POLONIUS know Cladious killed King. Hamlet
My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently. Commented [sn95]: She cannot confront Hamlet she send
Hamlet somone. Weak
Soft, now to my mother.— Commented [sn96]: She even sends polonious
O heart, lose not thy nature, let not ever
The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom.
Let me be cruel, not unnatural. Commented [sn97]: To harms one mother is unnatural,
I will speak daggers to her but use none.
My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites.
360How in my words somever she be shent,
To give them seals never, my soul, consent! Commented [sn98]: He would speak shit about her but
take no action
His tongue and soul are hypocrites because he wants to kill
Act 2 scene 3 her but his heart not.

POLONIUS
Tis meet that some more audience than a mother—
Since nature makes them partial—should o'erhear
The speech, of vantage. Commented [sn99]: Polonious will hear as he thinks
Gertrude would be weak and favour his son. Being biased
Claudious
That cannot be, since I am still possessed
55Of those effects for which I did the murder: Commented [sn100]: prizes
My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen. Commented [sn101]: Objectifying her,
May one be pardoned and retain th' offense?

ACT 3 SCENE 4

POLONIUS
He will come straight. Look you lay home to him.
Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with,
And that your grace hath screened and stood between
Much heat and him. I’ll silence me even here.
5Pray you, be round with him. Commented [sn102]: Polonious tells her what to do
Round- direct
GERTRUDE
I’ll warrant you. Fear me not. Commented [sn103]: Obeys him
HAMLET
Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue
No, by the rood, not so.
15You are the queen, your husband’s brother’s wife,
And—would it were not so!—you are my mother. Commented [sn104]: Responds harshily, wishes not ot be
Pg 106 her child
GERTRUDE
Nay, then I’ll set those to you that can speak. Commented [sn105]: Weak, she was going to call other
people so that Hamlet would speak
HAMLET
Come, come, and sit you down. You shall not budge.
You go not till I set you up a glass
20Where you may see the inmost part of you. Commented [sn106]: Hamlet is controlling her

HAMLET
A bloody deed? Almost as bad, good mother,
30As kill a king and marry with his brother.

GERTRUDE
As kill a king? Commented [sn107]: ignorant

Hamlet
Leave wringing of your hands. Peace. Sit you down
And let me wring your heart. For so I shall
If it be made of penetrable stuff,
If damnèd custom have not brassed it so
That it is proof and bulwark against sense.
HAMLET
Such an act
That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,
Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose
From the fair forehead of an innocent love
45And sets a blister there, makes marriage vows
As false as dicers' oaths—oh, such a deed
As from the body of contraction plucks
The very soul, and sweet religion makes
A rhapsody of words. Heaven’s face doth glow
50O'er this solidity and compound mass
With tristful visage, as against the doom,
Is thought-sick at the act.
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
70The heyday in the blood is tame, it’s humble,
And waits upon the judgment. And what judgment
Would step from this to this? Sense sure you have,
Else could you not have motion. But sure that sense
Is apoplexed, for madness would not err,
Commented [sn108]: wring- twist
dammned custom- the habit of wickness
brazened- hardened
bulkwark- armour
Commented [sn109]: modesty- reffering to the virginity to
behave well
Commented [sn110]: virginity. Marriage seems to be
virtuous but she sins and acts upon lust when she married
cladious
Commented [sn111]: she destroys and hurts rose –
symbolyses virginity
claiming such an act was prostitution
Commented [sn112]: dicers oath- worthless
as when a gambler swears never to touch dice again
calling her a liar
vows hollow
Commented [sn113]: doom-day the Judgment day
they would look at her sins – incestuous and adleterous and
judge her
Commented [sn114]: hayday- peak
tame- animal domesticated
sexual attraction decreases with age, passsion
Commented [sn115]: criticizing on going from king hamlet
to claudious
75Nor sense to ecstasy was ne'er so thralled, Commented [sn116]: apoplexed- impariement of
But it reserved some quantity of choice neurological function
INFERIORITY
To serve in such a difference. What devil was ’t Thrall- slave, is bond to
That thus hath cozened you at hoodman-blind?
Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,
80Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,
Or but a sickly part of one true sense
Could not so mope. O shame, where is thy blush? Commented [sn117]: What devil blindfolded you. She is
Rebellious hell, cover in sin
If thou canst mutine in a matron’s bones,
85To flaming youth let virtue be as wax
And melt in her own fire. Proclaim no shame
When the compulsive ardor gives the charge,
Since frost itself as actively doth burn,
And reason panders will. Commented [sn118]: No longer shameful to act on impulse
To act like an animal
Desire- sin, lust
HAMLET Cozened- trick
Nay, but to live Mutine- rebel
In the rank sweat of an enseamèd bed, Matron- middle age women
Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love If this happens to an old women in young people virtue
(morals) m,elt away in their own fire
95Over the nasty sty— Compulsive desire. Considers to old to have sexual desires
Hamlet animalises her as he says that act upon insticts
HAMLET rather than reason.
Nay, but to live
In the rank sweat of an enseamèd bed,
Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love
95Over the nasty sty— Commented [sn119]: Enaseamed- greasy
Sty- chiquero
Pg. 108

Ghost
But look, amazement on thy mother sits.
O, step between her and her fighting soul.
115Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. Commented [sn120]: Describing her as WEAK
Speak to her, Hamlet. Conceit- pride in herseld. conjecture

Pg 109
HAMLET
Ecstasy!
140 My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time,
141 And makes as healthful music: it is not madness
142 That I have utter'd: bring me to the test,
143 And I the matter will re-word; which madness
144 Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace,
145 Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, Commented [sn121]: mother blaming his son madness but
the real problem is her crime “incestuous” relationship
146 That not your trespass, but my madness speaks:
147 It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Commented [sn122]: it will hide with a thin membrane in
the open wound while the rank corruption (al the sins) are
148 Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, corrupting her inside
149 Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven;
150 Repent what's past; avoid what is to come; Commented [sn123]: repent- regreat and do not continue
151 And do not spread the compost on the weeds, to incentivate the growth of weeds
.152 To make them ranker. Forgive me this my virtue;
153 For in the fatness of these pursy times
154 Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg,
155 Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.
Pg 110
HAMLET
O, throw away the worser part of it,
And live the purer with the other half!
Good night. But go not to my uncle’s bed. 180
Assume a virtue if you have it not.
That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,
Of habits devil, is angel yet in this,
That to the use of actions fair and good
He likewise gives a frock or livery 185
That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight,
And that shall lend a kind of easiness
To the next abstinence, the next more easy;
For use almost can change the stamp of nature
And either (house) … the devil or throw him out 190
With wondrous potency. Once more, good night,
And, when you are desirous to be blessed,
I’ll blessing beg of you.
HAMLET
Not this by no means that I bid you do:
Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed,
Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse, 205
And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses
Or paddling in your neck with his damned fingers,
Make you to ravel all this matter out
That I essentially am not in madness,
But mad in craft. ’Twere good you let him know, 210
For who that’s but a queen, fair, sober, wise,
Would from a paddock, from a bat, a gib,
Such dear concernings hide? Who would do so?
No, in despite of sense and secrecy,
Unpeg the basket on the house’s top, 215
Let the birds fly, and like the famous ape,
To try conclusions, in the basket creep
And break your own neck down.
Act 4 scene 3
HAMLET
My mother. Father and mother is man and wife, 60
Man and wife is one flesh, and so, my mother.—
Come, for England. He exits.
Act 4 scene 4
Pg 118
Hamlet
Commented [sn124]: its telling that he as virtuous a s he is,
need to interfere to do good. To stop sinners
bow- incline the head
woo- attempt to, seek to,
leave- permisiion
vice- evil
pardon beg- ask for forgivness
Commented [sn125]: ask her to prenetend to have honour,
pretend to be virgin
do not commit sin
Commented [sn126]: all sense do eat: wear away all
natural feeling
it acts like a devil in establishing bad habits
frock- monks habit
lvery- uniform wore by servants
both indicate loyalty to a certaing group or standards
use: habit
habits are an evil or an angel can get you used to doing
either good or evil without thinking about it
leer en el libro la def 99
Commented [sn127]: refrain- desist, hold back from
and it woul make it easier for mnext time to say no to
Claudius and next time even easier
potency- power of make or change smth
Commented [sn128]: blessed- holy, sacred
when you want me to bless you for having followed my
advice and refused sex with the king I will beg you for
forgivness
Commented [sn129]: order
Commented [sn130]: virtuosity
Commented [sn131]: confuse disentangled(remove,
untangled)
pretending to be mad tells to his mother
Commented [sn132]: seems to be telling Gertrude not to
act like Claudious as this will be noticeable
talking about let out the secret
or he is telling her to kill herself?
Commented [sn133]: Condemning Gertrude too
 a mother stained,
act 4 scene 5
GENTLEMAN
She speaks much of her father, says she hears Commented [sn134]: She went crazy after hrr father death
There’s tricks i’ th’ world, and hems, and beats her the fact that she continues speaking of Polonius shos
DEPENDANCE
heart,
Spurns enviously at straws, speaks things in doubt Commented [sn135]: Fraud, deceit
That carry but half sense. Her speech is nothing,
Yet the unshapèd use of it doth move 10
The hearers to collection. They aim at it
And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts;
Which, as her winks and nods and gestures yield
them,
Indeed would make one think there might be 15
thought,
Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily. Commented [sn136]: Seems to be meaning to smth deeper

QUEEN Let her come in. Gentleman exits.

Aside. To my sick soul (as sin’s true nature is),
Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss.
So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spil
OPHELIA sings
How should I your true love know
From another one?
By his cockle hat and staff 30
And his sandal shoon.
OPHELIA Say you? Nay, pray you, mark.
Sings. He is dead and gone, lady,
He is dead and gone; 35
At his head a grass-green turf,
At his heels a stone.
Commented [sn137]: Guilty concious
Commented [sn138]: Toy: smth with little value
Amiss: calamity
Jealousy- suspicion
Gertrude thinks that OPHelia perceives her guilt
Artless- because it can not be covered
So by trying to hide her guilt she looses herself/ trying not
to reveal.
Commented [sn139]: Pilgrim: a person who journeys to a
sacred place for religious reson, devote. Piligims were
depicted as seeking for.a secular female saint
Commented [sn140]: Talking about Polonius buring

OPHELIA Pray let’s have no words of this, but when

they ask you what it means, say you this:
Sings. Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s day,
All in the morning betime,
And I a maid at your window, 55
To be your Valentine.
Then up he rose and donned his clothes
And dupped the chamber door,
Let in the maid, that out a maid
Never departed more. 60
OPHELIA
Gis and by Saint Charity,
Alack and fie for shame,
Young men will do ’t, if they come to ’t; 65
By Cock, they are to blame.
Commented [sn141]: The girl in the song gets up early in
the morning ("betime") on Valentine's day and goes to the
man's window because folklore said that the first girl seen
by a man on the morning of Valentine's day would be his
valentine, his true love. The girl wants to be the first one the
man sees.
Let in the maid, that out a maid / Never departed more: —
The man who the girl wanted for a valentine takes
advantage of her. When he lets her into his room she's a
"maid" (a virgin), but when she leaves she is no longer a
virgin
Quoth she “Before you tumbled me,
You promised me to wed.” Commented [sn142]: Boys are to blame if they have the
He answers: opportunity
Cock a pun: she's had sex; 2) her partner has cynically taken
“So would I ’a done, by yonder sun, 70 advantage of her love for him.
An thou hadst not come to my bed.”
Commented [sn143]: Reflecting the importance of
I hope all will be well. We must be patient, but Icannot choose but weep, to think VIRGINITY
they should lay him i’th’ cold ground. Commented [sn144]: Weak all she does is cry

Claudius
Poor Ophelia Divided from herself and her fair judgment, 95Without the which we
are pictures, or mere beasts. Commented [sn145]: CALLING HER A BEAST

Oh, this is the poison of deep grief. It springs 85All from her father’s death, and now
behold! O Gertrude, Gertrude, When sorrows come, they come not single spies But in
battalions. First, her father slain. Next, your son gone, and he most violent
author 90Of his own just remove.

LAERTES
LAERTES
175O heat, dry up my brains! Tears seven times salt, Burn out the sense and virtue of
mine eye! By heaven, thy madness shall be paid by weight, Till our scale turn the
beam. O rose of May, Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia! 180O heavens, is ’t
possible a young maid’s wits Should be as mortal as an old man’s life? Nature is fine
in love, and where ’tis fine, It sends some precious instance of itself After the thing it
loves. Commented [sn146]: LAERTES says that she let her sanity
go to Polonious that she lovedp
Love makes an individual keenly sensitive and it sends
OPHELIA precious parts of itself after the absent object of its love ;
And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead, Go to
thy deathbed.

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Act4 Scene 7

GERTRUDE
There is a willow grows aslant a brook
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
There with fantastic garlands did she come Commented [sn147]: Hoar- white
165Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, There with-with willo branches
Garland- crown of flowers
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
But our cold maids do “dead men’s fingers” call them. Commented [sn148]: Willow tree- drooping branches
create an imagery of sadness and depression
There, on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds Daisies rpresents innocence/virginity
Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke, Crowflowers- ingratirude
170When down her weedy trophies and herself long purpules (orchids)- sexual love/ testicles (priest
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, testicles)
Flowering neetles- sharp and stinging
And mermaid-like a while they bore her up,
Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds
As one incapable of her own distress,
175Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element. 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. Commented [sn149]: Pulled the poor wretch: Unfortunate
person.
Seems to think she is a nympth wich hamlet told her she is
LAERTES Virgin
Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, Honorouble death
And therefore I forbid my tears. But yet
It is our trick. Nature her custom holds,
185Let shame say what it will. When these are gone,
The woman will be out (..) Commented [sn150]: He says that he wont cry because
Ophelia alredy wet.
When he stops crying he will stop acting as a women
Claudious WEAKNES characterista

CLAUDIUS
Let’s follow, Gertrude.
How much I had to do to calm his rage!
190Now fear I this will give it start again.
Therefore let’s follow. Commented [sn151]: Men are always leading women

Pg 132
Gertrude killed herself she was weak, is a huge sin so she shouldn’t be able to have a
honorable Christian funeral.