Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Hamlet - Act 1
- Themes
- Conflict
- Internal
- Hamlet is happy he wants to
avenge but he doesn't want to
carry out the duty
- External
- Hamlet VS Claudius
- Hamlet VS mother
- Threat from Fortinbras
- Women
- Sexist - Hamlet sees
women as weak and disgusting
- Politics
- Fortinbras is
threatening
Denmark
- Family
- Ophelia,
Laertes,
Polonius.
- Polonius looks
out for his
children
- Laertes looks out
for Ophelia, his
sister
- Ophelia obeys
her brother and
father
- Revenge
- Hamlet is going to get
revenge for what
Claudius did to his
father
- Fortinbras
wants to get
revenge on
Denmark
- Love
- Hamlet's
father's love
for the Queen
- Incestuous love
between the Queen
and Claudius
- Corruption
- Denmark is corrupt
because Claudius is a
murderer
- Nature
- Human nature - God (King)
and Beast (Claudius)
- Hypocrisy
- Elsinore is a place where one can smile and
be a villian. False appearances
- Key Quotes
- "Frailty, thy name is
woman!" - Hamlet,
Act 1, Scene II
- "This above all: to thine own
self be true, And it must
follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false
to any man." - Polonius, Act 1,
Scene III
- "There are more
things in heaven
and earth,
Horatio, Than are
dreamt of in your
philosophy" -
Hamlet, Act 1,
Scene V
- "Our sometime
sister, now our
queen" - Claudius,
Act 1, Scene II
- "How weary, stale,
flat and unprofitable
Seem to me all the
uses of this world" -
Hamlet, Act 1, Scene II
- "Give every man thine
ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's
censure, but reserve
thy judgement" -
Polonius, Act 1, Scene III
- "Why, what should be the
fear? I do not set my life at
a pin's fee; And for my soul,
what can it do to that,
Being a thing immortal as
itself? It waves me forth
again; I'll follow it" - Hamlet,
Act 1, Scene IV
- "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" -
Marcellus, Act 1, Scene IV
- "The serpent that did sting
thy father's life now wears his
crown" - Ghost, Act 1, Scene V
- Language
- Imagery
- Rottenness -
Corruption in
Denmark
- Poison being spread- Corruption
- Rottenness - Evil in man
- Relationships
- King and Queen
- Claudius and Queen
- Incestuous
- Dramatic Expression
- Adds to the impression of mystery
- Claudius tries to conceal the truth
- Hamlet uses words to
reveal the truth
- Written in
blank verse
- Setting
- Elsinore, Denmark
- Castle
- Dramatic Irony
- Claudius
killed his
own
brother
- Hamlet pretending
to be mad. He's
bound to revenge