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1
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Grief - woe

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“throw to earth this unprevailing woe”

2
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Struggle - sea

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“To take arms against a sea of troubles”

3
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Death - attitudes antithesis

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“consummation devoutly to be wish’d” “dread”

4
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Grief - duties

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“To give these mourning duties to your father”

5
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Antithesis - cruelty

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“I must be cruel only to be kind”

6
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Playing vs reality - blank verse

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“The lady shall say her mind freely/Or the blank verse shall halt for it”

7
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Death - sleep

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“to die, to sleep, to sleep perchance to dream”

8
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Playing vs reality - guilt

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“I have heard that guilty creates sitting at a play… have proclaimed their malefactions”

9
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Uncertainty and Antithesis - ghost

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“a spirit of health or goblin damn’d” “airs from heaven or blasts from hell”

10
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Uncertainty - my mystery

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“You would pluck out the heart of my mystery”

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Antithesis - air

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“this most excellent canopy the air” “foul and pestilent congregation of vapours”

12
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Playing vs reality - speech

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“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you”

13
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Playing vs reality - face

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“God hath given you one face and you make yourself another”

14
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Antithesis - man

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“beauty of the world, the paragon of animals” “a quintessence of dust”

15
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Playing vs reality - actions

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“For they are actions that a man might play”

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Playing vs reality and delay - motive

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“What would he do had he the motive and the cue of passion that I have”

17
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Grief - fault

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“Fie! ‘tis a fault to heaven,/A fault against the seat, a fault to nature, To reason most absurd”

18
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Playing vs reality - seems

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“Seems, madam! nay it is, I know not ‘seems’”

19
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Antithesis - earth

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“This goodly frame, the earth” “sterile promontory”

20
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Playing vs reality and delay - Pyrrhus

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“And like a neutral to his will and matter,/ Did nothing.”

21
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Grief - black clothes

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“cast they nighted colour off”

22
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Revenge - cursed spite

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“O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right”

23
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The search for one’s place in the world - Hamlet’s critical nature of himself

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“O what a rogue and peasant slave am I”

24
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Grief - ceremony

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“What ceremony else? What ceremony else?

25
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Death - flesh

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“O that this too too solid flesh would melt,/Thaw and resolve itself into a dew”

26
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The search for one’s place in the world - Hamlet finding his place in the world

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“The is I,/Hamlet the Dane”

27
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Playing vs reality - smile

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“that one may smile and smile and be a villain”