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Hamlet Fever Chart

By: Lacey Jorgensen

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“Hamlet. His madness is poor Hamlet’s enemy” (V.ii.253)

“Ophelia. “A mind that used to sing so sweetly is now completely out of tune, making harsh sounds instead of fine notes.” (III.i.157-159)

“Hamlet. O that this 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! O God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!” (I.ii.332-338)

“Hamlet. Oh, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!” (IV.v.69)

“Polonius. Mad for thy love?” (II.i.82)

“Ophelia. He seemed to find his way without his eyes,”(II.i.110)

“Ophelia. He raised a sigh so piteous and profound as it did seem to shatter all his bulk and end his being.” (II.i.106-108)

“King Claudius. Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.” (III.ii.203)

“Hamlet. The spirit I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To 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.” (III.ii.178-183)

“Queen Gertrude. “Alas, he’s mad!” (III.iv.191-192)

“Queen Gertrude. And in this brainish apprehension kills the unseen good old man.” (IV.i.11-12)

“Ophelia. Oh, this is the poison of deep grief.” (IV.v.73)

“Hamlet. I am but not north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.” (II.ii 402-403)

“Queen Gertrude. My too much changed son” (II.ii.36)

“Hamlet. I eat the air, promise-crammed. You cannot feed capons so.” (III.ii.99-100)

“Ophelia. He took me by the wrist and held me hard...At last, a little shaking of mine arms, And thrice his head thus waving up and down.” (II.i. 84-92)

“King. Something you have heard / Of Hamlet’s transformation” (II.ii.4-5)

“Claudius. His liberty is full of threats to all.” (IV.i.14)

“Hamlet. Do you see nothing there?” (III.iv.150)

THESIS:

In William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, the main character Hamlet possesses sane and insane qualities as he battles the struggles of dealing with a love who rejects him, a mother who married his uncle, his uncle who attempts to have him murdered, and much more; this is shown internally and externally as Hamlet tries to understand how he really feels.

“Hamlet. Now might I do it pat, now he is a-praying.” (III.iii.77)

“Hamlet. When he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again.” (IV.ii.19-21)

“Queen Gertrude. That you bend your eye on vacancy and with th’ incorporal do hold discourse?” (III.iv.134-135)

“Horatio. These are wild and whirling words, my lord.” (I.v.136)

“Hamlet. The spirit that I have seen may be a devil.” (II.ii.128)

“Horatio. He waxes desperate imagination!” (I.iv.97)

“Hamlet. How now a rat? Dead for ducat, dead.” (III.iv.29)

“Hamlet. Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty!” (III.iv.105-106)

“Hamlet. How strange or odd so’er I bear myself (As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on), That you, at such times seeing me, never shall, With arms encumb’red this, or this head-shake, Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase.” (I.v.932-928)

“King Claudius. For what he spake, though it lacked form a little, was not like madness” (III.i.177-178)

“Hamlet. But I have that within which passes show, these but the trappings and the suits of woe.” (I.ii. 88-89)

“Claudius. What it should be, more than his father’s death, that thus hath put him so much from th’ understanding of himself I cannot dream of.” (II.ii.7-10)

“Horatio. And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason and draw you into madness? (I.iv.75-77)

“Hamlet. To be or not to be? That is the question-...” (III.i.57)

“Hamlet. For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within’s two hours” (III.ii.133-135)

“Hamlet. O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.” (III.ii.271)

“Polonius. The origin and commencement of his grief sprung from neglected love.” (III.ii.191-192)

“Hamlet. A bloody deed-almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry with his brother.” (III.iv.34-34)

“Hamlet. The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.” (II.ii.133-134)

“Hamlet. Ay, thou poor ghost, whiles memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.” (II.v.96-97)

“Hamlet. Nor sense to ecstasy was ne’er so thralled/ But it reversed some quantity of choice / To serve in such a difference.” (III.iv.75-77)

“Hamlet. Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness.” (V.ii.246)

“Hamlet. Yet have I something in me dangerous, Which let thy wisdom fear.” (V.i.239)

“Hamlet. Let me be cruel. Not unnatural…” (III.ii.370)

“Hamlet. And you must needs have heard, how I am punished With sore distraction. What I have done,/ That might your nature, honor, exception Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness.” (V.ii.216-219)

“Polonius. Though this be madness, yet there is method in ‘t” (III.ii.204)

“Queen Gertrude. To draw apart the body he hath killed, O’er whom his very madness, like some are Among a mineral of metals base, Shows itself pure. He weeps for what is done.” (IV.i.25)

“Hamlet. Together, will 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 woe.” (I.ii285-289)

“Hamlet. A little more than kin and less than kind.” (I.ii.67)

“Hamlet. As I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on” (I.V.58)

“Hamlet. Hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward” (IV.iv.44-46)