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.

The End!