Mythological Allusions Found in Hamlet Jennifer Edwards Zac Williamson

What is an allusion? [ uh -loo-zh uh n ] noun a casual reference Synonyms: o connotation o implication o indication o inference

What is considered mythological? related to myths or mythology

Allusions Found Within Hamlet Hamlet Act 1, Scene 2 "Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she-- O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month: Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not nor it cannot come to good: But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue." Mythological Allusions: Niobe Hercules

Allusions Found Within Hamlet Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2 "'The rugged Pyrrhus, like the Hyrcanian beast,'-- it is not so:--it begins with Pyrrhus:-- 'The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms, Black as his purpose, did the night resemble When he lay couched in the ominous horse, Hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd With heraldry more dismal; head to foot Now is he total gules; horridly trick'd With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, Baked and impasted with the parching streets, That lend a tyrannous and damned light To their lord's murder: roasted in wrath and fire, And thus o'er-sized with coagulate gore, With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus Old grandsire Priam seeks.' So, proceed you." Mythological Allusions: Hycranian beast Priam Pyrrhus

Allusions Found Within Hamlet Hamlet Act 3, Scene 4 "Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man: This was your husband. Look you now, what follows: Here is your husband; like a mildew'd ear, Blasting his wholesome brother." Mythological Allusions: Hyperion Jove Mars Mercury

Allusions Found Within Hamlet Hamlet Act 3, Scene 2 "It is a damned ghost that we have seen, And my imaginations are as foul As Vulcan's stithy. Give him heedful note; For I mine eyes will rivet to his face, And after we will both our judgments join In censure of his seeming." Mythological Allusions: Vulcan

Allusions Found Within Hamlet Hamlet Act 5, Scene 1 "Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead, Till of this flat a mountain you have made, To o'ertop old Pelion, or the skyish head Of blue Olympus." Mythological Allusions: Pelion Olympus