Hamlet Quotes - Literary Devices?

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Hamlet Quotes - Literary Devices?
  1. Unread #1 - Mar 27, 2013 at 6:42 PM
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    Hamlet Quotes - Literary Devices?

    Hey.. need help with these quotes:
    (WHAT LITERARY DEVICE IS BEING USED IN EACH QUOTE?)
    Any help is appreciated, thanks!

    "Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems."
    'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,
    Nor customary suits of solemn black,
    Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,
    No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,
    Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage,
    Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,
    That can denote me truly: these indeed seem,
    For they are actions that a man might play:
    But I have that within which passeth show;
    These but the trappings and the suits of woe. (75-90)



    O, that this too too solid flesh would melt
    Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
    Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
    His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
    How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, (135)
    Seem to me all the uses of this world!
    Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
    That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
    Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
    But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: (140)
    So excellent a king; that was, to this,
    Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother
    That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
    Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!



    Frailty, thy name is woman!—
    A little month, or ere those shoes were old
    With which she followed my poor father’s body,
    Like Niobe, all tears. Why she, even she—
    O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason
    Would have mourned longer!—married with my uncle,
    My father’s brother, but no more like my father
    Than I to Hercules. Within a month,
    Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
    Had left the flushing in her gallèd eyes,
    She married. O most wicked speed, to post
    With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
    It is not nor it cannot come to good,
    But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.



    My face cries out,
    And makes each petty artery in this body
    As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.
    Still am I call'd. Unhand me, gentlemen.
    By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.
    I say, away! Go on. I'll follow thee.


    Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,
    With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts—
    O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power
    So to seduce!—won to his shameful lust
    The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen.
    O Hamlet, what a falling off was there!
    From me, whose love was of that dignity
    That it went hand in hand even with the vow
    I made to her in marriage, and to decline
    Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor
    To those of mine.
    But virtue, as it never will be moved,
    Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,
    So lust, though to a radiant angel linked,
    Will sate itself in a celestial bed
    And prey on garbage.
     
  3. Unread #2 - Mar 27, 2013 at 7:36 PM
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    Hamlet Quotes - Literary Devices?

    This is all i've got so far.

    I'm almost positive this is an example of allusion. He's referring to Hercules who is the son of Zeus. Someone can correct me, as I didn't read the book & have no clue if there's a Hercules character in there, but if there isn't then it is definitely an example of historical allusion.

    I don't have enough time to really read the rest but I hope I've helped you so far. Good luck on the rest of your homework! If you need any explanations as to why I chose those literary devices send me a PM.
     
  5. Unread #3 - Mar 27, 2013 at 10:34 PM
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    Thanks a lot dude!
    Helped me a lot, thanks for your time. :)
     
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    Halp !
     
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