1. ACT ONE

2. REVENGE APPEARANCE/REALITY  “Why seems it so particular with thee?”  “My most seeming virtuous queen”  Villain, smiling villain”  “Perchance I shall think meet to put an antic disposition on.”  Hamlet’s “tenders” of affection are “brokers”  Fortinbras wants to avenge and regain loss of his father and lands  Ghost urges Hamlet to get revenge for his murder  Fortinbras has “sharked up a list of lawless resolutes”  “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder”  “Thy commandment all alone shall live within the book and volume of my brain”

3. Claudius: Present King of Denmark “How is it that the clouds still hang on you?” “ ‘Tis unmanly grief. It shows a will most incorrect to heaven.” “Throw to earth this unprevailing woe and Think of us as of a father”

4.  Hamlet: Prince of Denmark  “A little more than kin and less than kind”  “I have that within that passes show/These but the trappings and the suits of woe” Appearance/Reality  “Oh that this too, too, sullied flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew” Suicide  “Frailty, thy name is woman”

5.  “Thrift, thrift, Horatio. The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.” characterization: Hamlet’s wit  “ The world is an unweeded garden that grows to seed things rank and gross in nature” Decay  “Or that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon against self slaughter.” Suicide  “Thy commandment all alone shall live within the book and volume of my brain.” revenge  “The time is out of joint/Oh, cursed spite. That ever I was born to put it right.”

6.  POISON  “and in the porches of mine ear did pour the leprous distilment “  MADNESS  “Which might deprive you of your sovereignty and draw you into madness.”  “I hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on.”

7.  Decay and Corruption “The canker galls the infants of the spring too oft before their buttons be disclosed.”  Poison motif established in Act I, scene iv  “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” - Marcellus  Entrapment  “Springes to catch “woodcocks”  Polonius