1.5.93-110+Hamlet

Cammi Rigg

1.O all you host of heaven! O earth! what else? 2.And shall I couple hell? O, fie! Hold, hold, my heart; 3.And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, 4.But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee! 5.Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat 6.In this distracted globe. Remember thee! 7.Yea, from the table of my memory 8.I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, 9.All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, 10.That youth and observation copied there; 11.And thy commandment all alone shall live 12.Within the book and volume of my brain, 13.Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven! 14.O most pernicious woman! 15.O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! 16.My tables,--meet it is I set it down, 17.That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; 18.At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark:

Writing So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word; It is 'Adieu, adieu! remember me.' I have sworn 't.

**Author:** William Shakespeare ** Time and circumstances: ** 1599-1601 **Context:** Act 1 Scene 5

Before this speech, the ghost has called upon Hamlet to take revenge on the murder of his own father. He has spoken to the ghost and learned about his uncle murdering Hamlet’s father.

The importance of the passage is that this is the first time in the play that Hamlet speaks toAFTER SEEING the ghost and learns about his father’s murder, and Hamlet speaks his mind. Hamlet is determined to take revenge on his father’s murderer.
 * Synopsis of the scene: **

This passage reveals the determination of Hamlet. No where in the beginning of the play does Hamlet have this type of focus on one person other than his father. INTRODUCES HAMLET'S PROBLEM WITH WOMEN WHICH IS ONE OF THE THEMES OF THE PLAY.
 * Importance of the passage: **

It is important to the plot of the story because this determines that Hamlet is going to fulfill his father’s ghost’s commandment.
 * Importance to the plot: **

Appearance vs. Reality- it appears that Hamlet’s mother is really a nice woman and is respectful to everyone, but in reality she is really an adulterer according to Hamlet in line 14. Hamlet finally realizes that his mother is harmful to him in words of having to take revenge.
 * Theme of the passage: **

The idea behind Claudius and Hamlet’s mother to be together and that Claudius killed Hamlet’s father. The literary devices used help emphasize how Hamlet sounds and the words are easy to identify with how Hamlet feels about the whole deal.
 * Controlling idea: **


 * Literary Features: **
 * Repetition of “O”- used to keep the reader interested in the area of focus-on the point of revenge for Hamlet’s father
 * Repetition of “villain”- between lines 15-17 villain is used 3 times to emphasize that Claudius is a villain in the eyes of Hamlet.
 * A lot of O’s are tied up in most of the words which creates a long vowel sound that makes the reader slow down and concentrate on what Hamlet is telling himself.
 * Cosmic Imagery of Heaven and earth
 * REPETITION OF THE QUESTION

The passage is entirely relevant to the rest of the play. Ever since Hamlet’s father was murdered he was in a state of depression, but after the Ghost explains what happened to his father, and asked for revenge, Hamlet is determined to take in the task of revenge.
 * Conclusion: **

Everyday it seems something bad goes on in the world, and usually its death. When death occurs, it gives the family a time of grief. But if it was murder instead of natural causes, the family think of revenges, and that is what Hamlet is bringing through to the audience.