Speaking+and+Silence


 * Act/scene || Significant Quotes || Notes ||
 * Act 1 Scene 1 || -Barnardo:"Who's there?" (1.1.1)

-Marcellus: "Speak to it, Horatio" (1.1.50) and (1.1.53) -Horatio: "Stay! speak! speak! I charge thee, speak! //Ghost exits.// (1.1.61 - 1.1.62) || -the play starts out in ominous silence as it is night outside the castle and the guards are on watch -Barnardo sees or hears something and asks who's there which also adds to the mysterious, ominous mood -The ghost appears but is silent, adding ambuigity and mystery to the scene -the guards and Horatio get worked up over the ghost, trying to get it to speak -more ambiguity that they try to decipher when the ghost does not answer || -his long speech while everyone else is silent further emphasizes his importance, significance politically as the king || -their insignifance, their nature of servitude, their opinion has no part in the plot, polonius's death doesn't seem to matter at all to them, no reaction || -when Hamlet is speaking only to himself, he often expresses the deepest emotions ||
 * Act 1 Scene 3 ||  || -Claudius has a monologue the very first time he appears in the play
 * Act 1 Scene 4 ||  ||   ||
 * Act 1 Scene 5 ||  ||   ||
 * Act 2 Scene 1 ||  ||   ||
 * Act 2 Scene 2 ||  ||   ||
 * Act 3 Scene 1 ||  ||   ||
 * Act 3 Scene 2 ||  ||   ||
 * Act 3 Scene 3 ||  ||   ||
 * Act 3 Scene 4 ||  ||   ||
 * Act 4 Scene 1 ||  || -Rosencrantz and G say nothing as the king tells them about Polonius's death and gives them orders
 * Act 4 Scene 2 ||  ||   ||
 * Act 4 Scene 3 || "O, from this time forth my thoughts be bloody or nothing worth!" || -Hamlet has a lengthy monologue
 * Act 4 Scene 4 || "I will not speak with her" (Queen about Ophelia)

Gentleman (about Ophelia):"speaks things in doubt that carry but half sense"

Horatio: "Twere good she (Ophelia) were spoken with, for she may strew dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds" || -speaking, socializing with others is considered healthy -internalizing, silence towards others and talking to oneself symbolizes insanity ||
 * Act 4 Scene 5 ||  ||   ||
 * Act 4 Scene 6 ||  ||   ||
 * Act 4 Scene 7 ||  ||   ||