Appearances+vs+Reality

**Appearances vs. Reality**

**﻿Act I Scene 1** (1.1.48) **BERNARDO** In the same figure, like the king that's dead.

(1.1.50) **BERNARDO** Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio.

(1.1.55-57) **HORATIO** Together with that fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march? by heaven I charge thee, speak!

(1.1.69-72) **MARCELLUS** Is it not like the king? <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">**HORATIO** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">As thou art to thyself: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Such was the very armour he had on <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">When he the ambitious Norway combated; <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">//*The ghost appears looking like the late Hamlet, but it still makes Hamlet (later) as well as Horatio and the guards wonder if it is the true spirit of the late king, or a devil in disguise.//

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">﻿**Act I Scene 2** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">(1.2.76-89) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">**HAMLET** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ay, madam, it is common. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">**QUEEN GERTRUDE** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">If it be, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Why seems it so particular with thee? <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">**HAMLET** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Seems, madam! nay it is; I know not 'seems.' <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nor customary suits of solemn black, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">For they are actions that a man might play: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">But I have that within which passeth show; <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">These but the trappings and the suits of woe. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">//*Here, Hamlet plays off of the word 'seems,' where he indirectly points out Claudius' disguise, saying sorrow may be 'actions that a man might play.'//

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">﻿**Act II Scene 2** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">(2.2.316-334) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">**HAMLET** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the king <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">and queen moult no feather. I have of late--but <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">with my disposition that this goodly frame, the <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">express and admirable! in action how like an angel! <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">you seem to say so. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">//*Hamlet is giving R & G ambiguous and false information regarding his madness so to mislead the king and queen. His apparent madness will prevent suspicion.//

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">﻿**Act III Scene 3** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">(3.3.55-60) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">**KING** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder'? <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">That cannot be; since I am still possess'd <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Of those effects for which I did the murder, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">My crown, mine own ambition and my queen. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">May one be pardon'd and retain the offence?

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">(3.3.77 - 83) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">**HAMLET** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder'? <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">That cannot be; since I am still possess'd <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Of those effects for which I did the murder, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">My crown, mine own ambition and my queen. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">May one be pardon'd and retain the offence? <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">//*To Hamlet, it seems that the king is confessing his sins, therefore, he stops himself from carrying out the murder. However, in reality, Claudius is not truly sorry for what he has done, making the prayer ineffective.//

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Act IV Scene 3** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">(4.3.1-11) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">**KING** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">I have sent to seek him, and to find the body. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">How dangerous is it that this man goes loose! <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Yet must not we put the strong law on him: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">He's loved of the distracted multitude, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes; <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">And where tis so, the offender's scourge is weigh'd, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">But never the offence. To bear all smooth and even, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">This sudden sending him away must seem <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Deliberate pause: diseases desperate grown <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">By desperate appliance are relieved, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Or not at all.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">(4.3.44-51) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">**KING** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety,-- <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">For that which thou hast done,--must send thee hence <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">With fiery quickness: therefore prepare thyself; <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">The bark is ready, and the wind at help, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">The associates tend, and every thing is bent <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">For England.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">(4.3.73-77) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">**KING** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">By letters congruing to that effect, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England; <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">For like the hectic in my blood he rages, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">And thou must cure me: till I know 'tis done, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Howe'er my haps, my joys were ne'er begun. //<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">*After Polonius' murder, the king is desperate to get rid of Hamlet. He orders Hamlets' murder in England, but because the prince is loved by the people, he makes an effort to make the arrangement seem like a 'deliberate pause,' and tells Hamlet this trip to England is for his 'special safety.' //