World Literature 12/5/2015 Analyzing Quotes from Hamlet 1)Find the quote in your text. 2)Listen to your group’s reader recite the quote to the group. 3)Look at stage directions and other clues to see who else is on stage. 4)Review the scene to determine what is happening at this point in the play. 5)Think and Analyze! Discuss the deeper meaning the quote has for the overall play.

Who is speaking? This is the easy question, but it is important. The speaker’s name is to the left of the quote.

To whom is the person speaking? Not every name on the page is still on stage. Look carefully at stage directions. – Exit means that one character leaves the stage. – Exeunt means that more than one character leaves the stage. – Aside means that the character is speaking a private thought to self and/or audience. – If the character is alone onstage, that character’s words are part of a soliloquy.

What is the situation? Review scene summaries from your notes. Skim over the pages before and after the quote. Discuss the situation in context of what it contributes to the play’s action.

How does the quote tie into another situation? Ask your group members why this quote was chosen for this exercise. Consider what this quote means to the speaker and to those who hear it. Find another part of the play in which the quote is relevant to one or more of these characters. Make the connections!

A little more than kin and less than kind. Who is speaking?To whom is the person speaking? What is the situation?How does the quote tie into another situation?

A little more than kin and less than kind. Who is speaking? Hamlet To whom is the person speaking? Himself (Aside) What is the situation? This is Hamlet’s first line in the play, in which he makes it known that he doesn’t like King Claudius. How does the quote tie into another situation? When the ghost tells Hamlet that Claudius killed him, he says, “O, my prophetic soul,” indicating that he knew the ghost was going to name him as the killer.

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. Who is speaking?To whom is the person speaking? What is the situation?How does the quote tie into another situation?

O my prophetic soul! My uncle? Who is speaking?To whom is the person speaking? What is the situation?How does the quote tie into another situation?

As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on – Who is speaking?To whom is the person speaking? What is the situation?How does the quote tie into another situation?

Madam, I swear I use no art at all. That he’s mad, ‘tis true, ‘tis true ‘tis pity, And pity ‘tis ‘tis true – a foolish figure, But farewell it, for I will use no art. Who is speaking?To whom is the person speaking? What is the situation?How does the quote tie into another situation?

What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and cue for passion That I have? Who is speaking?To whom is the person speaking? What is the situation?How does the quote tie into another situation?

I’ll have grounds More relative than this – the play’s the thing Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King. Who is speaking?To whom is the person speaking? What is the situation?How does the quote tie into another situation?

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied over with the pale cast of thought. Who is speaking?To whom is the person speaking? What is the situation?How does the quote tie into another situation?

The lady doth protest too much, methinks. Who is speaking?To whom is the person speaking? What is the situation?How does the quote tie into another situation?

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. Who is speaking?To whom is the person speaking? What is the situation?How does the quote tie into another situation?

Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honor’s at the stake. Who is speaking?To whom is the person speaking? What is the situation?How does the quote tie into another situation?

Was your father dear to you? Or are you like a painting of a sorrow, A face without a heart? Who is speaking?To whom is the person speaking? What is the situation?How does the quote tie into another situation?

And yet it is almost against my conscience. Who is speaking?To whom is the person speaking? What is the situation?How does the quote tie into another situation?