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Scene 1: When Barnardo, Francisco, Horatio, and Marcellus sees the ghost. + "Is not this something more than fantasy?" - Barn. Scene 2: Funeral + wedding (claudius and gertrude), Horatio also tells Hamlet about the ghost. : King's speech; Hamlet --> "A little more than kin, and less than kind." (too much of a family with negative connotation) Scene 3: Laertes and Polo. warns Ophelia not to trust Hamlet + polo giving Laertes words of wisdom. Laertes "Out of the shot and danger of desire." , "in the morn and liquid dew of youth contagious blastments are most imminent." Polo - " To thine own self be true thou canst not then be false to any man.", "When the blood burns, how prodigal the should lends the tongue vows." Scene 4: Hamlet and Horatio sees the ghost. Hamlet "We fools of nature so horridly to shake our disposition with thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?" Horatio - "toys of desperation" Scene 5: Ghost is alone with Hamlet and tells him about the murder and demands revenge (Hamlet tells Horatio and Marc. that we will not act like himself). Ghost - "foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purged away", "incestuous, that adulterate beast with witchcraft of his wit with traitorous gifts." Hamlet - "I with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love may sweep to my revenge." Scene 1: Polonius sense his man to Paris to spy on Laertes, and Ophelia tells her father about Hamlet's strange behaviour. Polo. - "Before you visit him, to make inquire of his behaviour", "Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth;do we of wisdom and of reach, with windlasses and with assays of bias, by indirections find directions out.", "common for younger sort to lack discretion."

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Scene 2: Rose. + Guild set to spy on Hamlet for King, and Polo describes Hamlet's encounter with Ophelia; Hamlet comes up with a play plan with the players. Hamlet - "I know not 'seems', "'tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature possess it merely", "oh too this sullied flesh would melt","You are a fishmonger.", "To be honestis to be on mean picked out of ten thousand." (Soliloguy) "rogue and peasant slave am I!", "Could force his soul so to his own conceit..", "Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, mindless villain!", "The spirit that I have seen may be a devil, and the devil hath power t'assume a pleasing shape..", "play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king." Scene 1: Claudius and Polonius use Ophelia as a decoy to spy on Hamlet, and then king decides to send him off to England. Hamlet - (Soliloquy) "To be, or not to be, that is the question.", "To die -- to sleep no more..", "what dreams may come when we have suffered off this mortal coil", "calamity of so long life", "bear the whips and scorns of time..", "undiscovered country. puzzles the will", "conscience makes cowards of us all" Ophelia + Hamlet - "honesty can translate beauty into his likeness", "get thee to a nunnery." , "suck's honey out of his music vows" Scene 2: Hamlet lectures players before their performance which was interrupted by King, and was then summoned to walk to his mother. Hamlet - "..not modesty of nature..", "mirror up to nature" PLAY - "Out thoughts are ours, their ends non of our own." , "hell itself breathe contagion to this world", "let me be cruel, not unnatural", "my tongue and soul in this hypocrites" Rosencrantz - "chess of majesty dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw what's near it with it."

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Scene 3: King plans to send Hamlet away from Denmark, and tries to ease his guilty conscience in prayer, presenting Hamlet with an unexpected opportunity to avenge his father. Claudius (soliloquy) "Oh my offence is rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon't -- a brother's murder.", "my stronger guilt defeats my strong intent", "what if this cursed hand were thicker than itself with brother's blood? Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens to wash it white as snow?", "In the corrupted currents of this world offence's guilded hands may shove by justice, and oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself buys out the law.", "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.", "there the action lies in his true nature, and we ourselves compelled even to the teeth and forehead of our faults to give in evidence." Hamlet (aside..) "this is hire salary, not revenge.", "And am I then revenged to take him in the purging of his soul, when he is fit and season'd for his passage?", "heels may kick at heaven and that his soul may be as damn'd and black as hell, whereto it goes." Scene 4: Polonius hides behind the arras to overhear Hamlet's conversation with his mother, and pays with his life. Hamlet then confronts Gertrude with her guilt, and only the Ghost can put an end to his tirade of abuse. Hamlet - "you go not till I set you up a glass where you may see the inmost part of you.", "blurs the grace and blush of modesty, call virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose from the faire forehead of an innocent love..", "makes marriage vows as false as dicers' oaths..", "Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, an eye like Mars to threaten and command.", "like a mildew'd ear blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?", "you cannot call if love; for at your age the heyday in the good is tame, it's humble and waits upon the judgement.", "eyes without feeling, feeling without sight, ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all, or but a sickly part of one true sense..", "tears perchance for blood", "rank corruption", "throw away the worded part of it and live the purer with the other half.", "I must be cruel only to be kind" Queen "thou turn'st my eyes into my very soul, and there I see such black and grained spots as will not leave their tinct.", "very coinage of your brain, this bodiless creation ecstasy is very cunning in."

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Scene 1: Claudius, expecting to her about the outcome of his plot, learns instead of death of Polo. Claudius "like the owner of a foul disease, to keep it from divulging, let it feed even on the pith of life." Gertrude "his very madness, like some ore among a mineral of metals base, shows itself pure.." Scene 2: Hamlet refuses to tell Rosencratz and Guidernstern where he has hidden the body of Polo. " **Scene 3: Hamlet brought before the king, and tells Claudius where he may find the body of Polo. Claudius who is now very worried about his nephew, tells Hamlet that he must leave immediately for Eng. Claudius - "How dangerous is it that this man goes loose!", "must not we put the strong law on him: he's loved of the distracted multitude.." Hamlet - "politic worms are e'en at him. You worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots." Scene 4: Army of Norwegian soldiers marches across the stage. At their head is young Fortinbras, brisk and purposeful; and the watching Hamlet is moved to further meditation on his own inactivity. Scene 5: Ophelia goes crazy with grief of her father's death, and Claudius fears that the murder will have serious consequences. Laertes demands retribution when he sees his sister. Scene 6: Horatio is approached by sailors, who bring letters from Hamlet. Scene 7: Claudius learns that Hamlet has returned to Denmark and encourages Laertes to get his revenge. The queen describes Ophelia's death. Scene 1: Hamlet and Horatio interrupt two gravediggers at their work. Ophelia's funeral procession approaches, and Hamlet bursts out among the mourners to declare his love in a confrontation with Laertes.

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Scene 2: Challenge is issued and accepted: the duel is arranged, the king prepares the chalices, and Hamlet fight Laertes.