key quotes Flashcards
(8 cards)
act one scene one
who says ‘whos there’ 1.1
what theme does this present ?
Speaker: Barnardo
To whom: Fransisco
Literary Device: Tone of uncertainty
Context: Beginning of the play, twelve a clock at night, the
guards have been seeing apparitions of the dead king hamlet on the castle ramparts
Purpose: Shows caution and tone of fear and uncertainty
sets a tone of anxiety, permeates the whole play.
could suggest distrust or disquiet.
“Stand and unfold yourself”
Speaker: Fransisco
To whom: Barnardo
Literary Devices: Metaphor, the command that Fransisco uses compares Barnardo to paper, as if he could be unfolded to reveal more of himself, this line also reflects how Hamlet as a character unfolds and deconstructs throughout the story
Context: Twelve O’clock at the castle ramparts, this is the beginning of the play that still establishes the setting, act 1 scene 1, they have been seeing ghosts
“Tis bitter cold and i am sick at heart.”
Speaker: Francisco
To whom: Barnardo
Literary Devices: Personification, his heart is growing sick like the cold weather, personifying the cold weather as being able to have feelings and emotions
context - sickness is not explained, unless by subsequent discussion of the ghost.
’ A piece of him’ ( 1.1)
speaker- Horatio
to whom- Bernardo
analysis- perhaps Horatio offers his hand as a literal piece or perhaps he implies that the cold night has reduced him to a shrunken fragment of his real self.
’ tush, tush t’will not appear’ 1.1
speaker; Horatio
analysis- instant doubt, not convinced, an expression of contempt.
’ this bodes some strange eruption to our state’ 1.1
political revolt or disturbance - in horatios opinion here in ensuring conversation - the ghost’s appearance relates to future rather than Past events. unsettling atmosphere.
