Act 3 quotes

Here's a couple quotes to think about from Act 3 scene 1 for the test on Friday. If anyone has some other ones, post them up if you get a chance..

Act III. i
(around line 30)
King- "With all my heart; and it doth much content me
To hear him so inclined.
Good gentlemen, give him a further edge,
And drive his purpose into these delights."
-Claudius to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern/ after receiving notice that Hamlet is excited about the players and would like them to go watch.
--I was wondering why Claudius orders them to 'drive' him as to steer him into certain pleasures.

(around line 50)
Polonius- "Read on this book,
That show of such an exercise may colour
Your loneliness. We are oft to blame in this,
'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage
And pious action we do sugar o'er
The devil himself."
-First three lines: Polonius is asking Ophelia to use the book to add realism to her loneliness.
-Last two: to Claudius stating that it has been done before and proven that things can be covered up but still remains true (Theme: not everything is what it seems to be)

[directly after, the King says aside:
"O, 'tis too true.
How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!
The harlot's cheek, beautied with plast'ring art,
Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it
Than is my deed to my most painted word.
O heavy burden!"
-Polonius's words bother him: this shows us he is guilty of something (keeps the audience going
-The reference to the artificiality of the make-up that beautifies the harlot's face is compared as similar to Claudius's words that cover up his deeds. (Theme: Appearance vs. Reality)

Hamlet's 'To be, or not to be' soliloquy

(around line 150)
Hamlet- "I have heard of your paintings well enough.
God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another...
...Those that are married already, all but
one, shall live; the rest shall keep as they are. To a nunnery,
go."
-To Ophelia, pin pointing her false appearance
-Foreshadowing a death: 'all but one shall live'




Tanya