Hamlet Review Guided Notes Imagery: Flowers: Death/decay:

War:

Ears/hearing: poisoned in the ear, Hamlet has words to speak into [Horatio]s ear, the ghost says the lie about his death has caused the whole ear of Denmark to be rankly abused

Themes: Complexity of action

Impossibility of certainty Mystery of death Symbols: Violets

Yoricks skull

Recurring ideas: Fathers/Sons

Use of puns: A little more than kin and less than kind [1.2.67] Let her not walk i th sun. Conception is a / Blessing, but, as your daughter may conceive, / Friend look to t. [2.2.201-203] Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. [4.3.23] Thou dost lie in t, to be in t and say it is thine. [5.1.128] Acting:

Words:

Spying:

Quotes: Hamlet: O that this too, too sullied flesh would melt [1.2.133] frailty, thy name is woman! [1.2.150]
I am but mad north-north-westI know a hawk from a handsaw [2.2.402-403]

Imperious Ceasar, dead and turned to clay [5.1.220] This is I, / Hamlet the Dane. [5.1.270] Forty thousand brothers / Could not with all their quantity of love / Make up my sum [5.1.285-287] Polonius: Neither a borrower nor a lender be [1.3.82] This above all: to thine own self be true [1.3.84] brevity is the soul of wit [2.2.97] Though this be madness, yet there is method in t. [2.2.223-224]

Marcellus: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. [1.4.100] Ophelia: O what a noble mind is here oerthrown! [3.1.163] King: Madness in great ones must not unwatched go [3.1.201] My words fly, up my thoughts remain below; / Words without thoughts never to heaven go. [3.3.103-104] Gertrude: Sweets to the sweet [5.1.254]

Laertes: Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, / And therefore I forbid my tears [4.7.211-212] Literary devices: tragedy/tragic flaw:

dramatic irony:

allusion:

soliloquy: foil:

comic relief: