1.5.43-92+--Ghost

Ghost - Alexa Carey

1 Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, 2 With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,-- 3 O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power 4 So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust 5 The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen: 6 O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there! 7 From me, whose love was of that dignity 8 That it went hand in hand even with the vow 9 I made to her in marriage, and to decline 10 Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor 11 To those of mine! 12 But virtue, as it never will be moved, 13 Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven, 14 So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd, 15 Will sate itself in a celestial bed, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">16 And prey on garbage. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">17 But, soft! methinks I scent the morning air; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">18 Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">19 My custom always of the afternoon, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">20 Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">21 With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">22 And in the porches of my ears did pour <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">23 The leperous distilment; whose effect <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">24 Holds such an enmity with blood of man <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">25 That swift as quicksilver it courses through <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">26 The natural gates and alleys of the body, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">27 And with a sudden vigour doth posset <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">28 And curd, like eager droppings into milk, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">29 The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">30 And a most instant tetter bark'd about, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">31 Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">32 All my smooth body. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">33 Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">34 Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">35 Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">36 Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">37 No reckoning made, but sent to my account <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">38 With all my imperfections on my head: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">39 O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible! <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">40 If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">41 Let not the royal bed of Denmark be <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">42 A couch for luxury and damned incest. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">43 But, howsoever thou pursuest this act, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">44 Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">45 Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">46 And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">47 To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once! <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">48 The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">49 And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">50 Adieu, adieu! Hamlet, remember me. **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Hamlet 1.5 Ghost ** · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Author = William Shakespeare · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Written in 1599-1601 during Shakespeare’s tragic period after the play Julius Caesar · **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Controlling Idea: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This speech illustrates appearance vs. reality because the Ghost is angry with how he was killed by Claudius and the Queen, who everyone views as a perfect court. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; position: relative; top: 1pt;">• **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Synopsis of Scene: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">This occurs in Act 1 Scene 5 when Hamlet comes into contact with the ghost for the first time. The ghost is explaining to Hamlet how he was killed by Claudius. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; position: relative; top: 1pt;">• <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Reveals that the Ghost is fuming about his death • <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Themes: Appearance vs. Reality and Women · **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Speaker: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ghost · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Appearance vs reality is a theme of this passage, because the Ghost speaks about how the actual behavior of the King and Queen is not acceptable, yet no one knows what they have actually done. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The presence of the Ghost in this scene is to horrify Hamlet · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Line 12: The theme of women is present when Ghost continuously says that the Queen is a slut whenever he speaks about her virtue. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Alliteration in line 3: in order to bring emphasis to the fact that Claudius is not a good person. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Assonance: “With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts” also emphasizes how Claudius is tricking everyone into thinking he is a good king, when he actually murdered the last king. Line 2 · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Line 17 : a transition into how Ghost was actually killed · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Line 5: the Ghost’s word choice “seeming-virtuous queen” reveals the Ghost’s anger, and how Gertrude is not the type of queen that everyone one thinks. Acuusing Gertrude and Claudius of starting the relationship before he was dead. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Lines 12-16: These lines connect to man’s sinful nature in the fact that the Ghost is calling the Queen a slut. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Line 18: Biblical allusion to Genesis when the Ghost mentions the orchard, which is equivalent to a garden · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Ghost’s speech is the reason that Hamlet to put on an “antic disposition” throughout the rest of the play
 * word choice show the ghost's horror at the event
 * Fall of man when he says "oh what a falling off was there" - Great Chain of Being
 * Ghost has a very elevated opinion of himself
 * repetition of "horrible" illustrating what a horrible event it was
 * The Ghost never tells Hamlet to kill Claudius