Soliloquy
• A long speech delivered alone on stage in
which actor reveals true thoughts and
feelings.
Irony
• The reverse of what you think will happen,
happens.
• Dramatic irony: the audience knows more than
the characters. (Ophelia’s death- we know how
Claudius killed Hamlet’s father, but the other
characters don’t.)
• Situational: the situation is ironic (not killing
Claudius)
• Verbal: Words have two meaning (literal and
implied)
ambiguity
• Gertrude’s involvement in husband’s death
• Hamlet’s madness? Is he or isn’t he
4.6: deus ex machina
• Shakespeare now returns him to Denmark
only two scenes later through the bizarre deus
ex machina—an improbable or unexpected
device or character introduced to resolve a
situation in a work of fiction or drama—of
the pirate attack.
foil
• A character who serves as a contrast to
another character in order to emphasize
difference in temperment and action.
• Laertes is a foil to Hamlet
Metaphor that explains how we have
eaten of kings
• “A man may fish with the worm that have eat
of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of
that worm.”
• (This is an example of metaphor-what theme
does this relate to? What does it mean?)
Quotes
• When sorrows come they not
single spies but in Battalions.
•
• Alas poor Yorick I knew him well
•
• O my offense is rank it smells to
heaven
•
• To be or not to be—that is the
question
The lady doth protest too much,
methinks.
• “Get thee to a nunnery”
• Goodnight sweet prince, and flights
of angels sing thee to thy rest.
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• “There’s rosemary, that’s for
remembrance. And there’s pansies,
that’s for thoughts... There’s fennel
for
you, and columbines.
• “Sweets to the sweet”
• Who says, “What’s Hecuba to him, or he to
Hecuba, / That he should weep for her?”?
What is the significance of these lines?