Hamlet’s Id
By Valon Mersini
Act 1 Scene ii
“A little more than kin
and less than kind.”
Hamlet says this to Claudius and
tells him that they were family
before and now they have
become much closer. Hamlet
also tells him that Claudius
may be related to him, but he
is nothing like him.
This helps the audience realize
that Hamlet hates his uncle.
Act 1 Scene ii
“Seems, madam! nay it is; I know not 'seems.'
'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,
Nor customary suits of solemn black,
Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,
No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,
Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage,
Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,
That can denote me truly: these indeed seem,
For they are actions that a man might play:
But I have that within which passeth show;
These but the trappings and the suits of woe.”
Hamlet speaks to his mother Gertrude about his condition. Hamlet
is wearing black, sighing, and crying about the death of his father.
His mother thinks that he is acting and Hamlet tells her that he is
not acting.
Act 1 Scene ii
“O, that this too too solid flesh would melt
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:
So excellent a king; that was, to this,
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother”
Hamlet speaks to himself his mother marring Claudius. He is very
unhappy with his mother’s actions and hates the fact that she
married so soon. Hamlet shows his primitive impulses of anger and
hatred toward his mother and uncle.
Act 1 Scene ii
"Frailty, thy name
is woman!"
Hamlet is furious with his
mother, Gertrude, for
marrying Claudius within
a month of his father's
death.
Act 1 Scene v
“Haste me to know't, that I,
with wings as swift
As meditation or the thoughts
of love,
May sweep to my revenge.”
Hamlet speaks to the ghost about
revenging his father’s death. He
promises the spirit to kill his uncle,
which shows Hamlets anger and
determination to kill his uncle.
Act 2 Scene ii
“Am I a coward? Who calls me
“villain”? Breaks my pate
across? Plucks off my beard and blows
it in my face? Tweaks me by the nose?
Gives me the lie i' th' throat As deep as
to the lungs? Who does me this?”
Hamlet speaks to himself and also starts to put himself
down. He believes that he is letting himself down because
he hasn’t killed Claudius yet. He is focusing about his own
needs and not about the promises he made.
Act 2 Scene ii
“O vengeance! Why, what an ass am I! This is
most brave, 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!”
Hamlet says to himself that he has to act upon the
ghost’s request to kill Claudius. He tells himself
that he is wasting time and that he has to go and
revenge his father.
Act 2 Scene ii
“May be the devil, and the devil hath power T'
assume a pleasing shape. Yea, and perhaps Out
of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very
potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me.
I'll have grounds More relative than this. The
play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience
of the king.”
Hamlet decides to put on a play in which he will find out
if the king has killed his father. Hamlet is very
determined to follow his primitive instincts and use those
instincts to caught the conscience of the king. Hamlet
also wants to find out if the ghost is lying to him so that
he could know if the ghost took advantage of him.
Act 3 Scene i
“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.
I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with
more offences at my beck than I have thoughts
to put them in, imagination to give them shape,
or time to act them in. What should such fellows
as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We
are arrant knaves, all. Believe none of us. Go thy
ways to a nunnery. Where's your father?”
Hamlet is very idful right now. He hates Ophelia and
doesn’t want to start a family with her. He wishes that he
had never been born and only thinks about himself. He
also claims that everyone is a criminal. Hamlet is angry
and so he can’t control his rage toward Ophelia.
Act 3 Scene i
“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.”
Hamlet hates Ophelia because he believes that she has
cheated on him. He doesn’t want to marry her and the
only person that she could marry is a fool. This quote
shows the anger of Hamlet toward Ophelia.
Act 3 Scene ii
“Tis now the very witching time of night, When
churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes
out Contagion to this world. Now could I drink
hot blood And do such bitter business as the
bitter day Would quake to look on. Soft, now to
my mother.—heart, lose not thy nature, let not
ever The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom. Let
me be cruel, not unnatural. I will speak daggers
to her but use none. My tongue and soul in this
be hypocrites. How in my words somever she be
shent, To give them seals never, my soul,
consent!”
Hamlet is very self centered in this quote. He goes with
all of this rage to his mother. He acts very passionate
because he says that he drinks hot blood, bitter
business, and quake. He also says that he will speak
daggers to her. So he will not kill his mother because he
wants to kill Claudius.
Act 3 Scene iii
“Now might I do it pat. Now he is a-praying.
And now I'll do 't. And so he goes to
heaven. And so am I revenged.—That
would be scanned. A villain kills my father,
and, for that, I, his sole son, do this same
villain send To heaven. Oh, this is hire and
salary, not revenge. He took my father
grossly, full of bread, With all his crimes
broad blown, as flush as May. And how
his audit stands who knows save
heaven? But in our circumstance and
course of thought‘ Tis heavy with him.
And am I then revenged To take him in
the purging of his soul When he is fit and
seasoned for his passage?”
Hamlet has the chance to kill the king. He is talking
to himself of all the reasons that he should kill
his uncle. He killed his father and Hamlet should
now make him pay.
Act 3 Scene iii
“No. Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid
hent. When he is drunk asleep, or in his
rage, Or in th' incestuous pleasure of his
bed, At game a-swearing, or about some
act That has no relish of salvation in 't—
Then trip him, that his heels may kick at
heaven, And that his soul may be as
damned and black As hell, whereto it
goes. My mother stays This physic but
prolongs thy sickly days.”
After Hamlet’s act of superego, Hamlet then decides
to once again kill the king. He will not kill the
king when he is praying, but when he is making
love to his mother.
Act 3 Scene iv
“A murderer and a villain, A slave that is not
twentieth part the tithe Of your precedent
lord, a vice of kings, A cutpurse of the
empire and the rule, That from a shelf the
precious diadem stole, And put it in his
pocket—”
Hamlet is telling his mother that he hates Claudius.
He calls him a villain and a low life. He also
thinks that he is a very made king. So, he
basically tells his mother that he is very anger of
her marrying him.
Act 5 Scene i
“'Swounds, show me what thou'lt do. Woo't
weep? Woo't fight? Woo't fast? Woo't tear
thyself? Woo't drink up eisel, eat a
crocodile? I'll do 't. Dost thou come here
to whine, To outface me with leaping in
her grave? Be buried quick with her?—and
so will I. And if thou prate of mountains
let them throw Millions of acres on us, till
our ground, Singeing his pate against the
burning zone, Make Ossa like a wart! Nay,
an thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou.”
Hamlet is speaking his feeling of Ophelia at the
graveyard. He is very depressed that she killed
herself. He also makes promises that he cannot
keep because he is just trying to make a point
of how much he loved Ophelia.
Act 5 Scene ii
“Does it not, think thee, stand me now
upon— He that hath killed my king
and whored my mother, Popped in
between th' election and my
hopes, Thrown out his angle for my
proper life (And with such
cozenage!)—is 't not perfect
conscience To quit him with this arm?
And is 't not to be damned To let this
canker of our nature come In further
evil?”
Hamlet feels more confident in his primitive
impulse to kill the king. He has found out
that his uncle sent him to England to get
killed. Instead of Hamlet being sent to
England, Hamlet found the letter that his
uncle sent and gave it to R&G so that they
could die in England.
Act 5 Scene ii
“Here, thou incestuous,
murderous, damnèd
Dane, Drink off this potion. Is
thy union here? Follow my
mother.”
Hamlet finds out that Claudius poisoned his
mother and Laertes tells him that the king is
the one to blame. So, Hamlet makes the
king drink the poison and kills him. Hamlet
wants the king dead, and he was able to do
that.