ENG   HAMLET        QUOTATIONS

        For each of the following excerpts from the play do the following:

       1- Identify the speaker.
       2- Describe the circumstances
       3- Explain the significance in one or more of the following areas:
                --dramatic devices
                --poetic devices
                --character revelation
                --thematic development

       a- O that this too too sullied 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,
          Seem to me all the uses of this world!
                                           I, ii

       b- No.
          Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent,
          When he is drunk, asleep, or in his rage,
          Or in the incestual pleasure of his bed,
          At game, a-swearing, or about some act
          That has no relish of salvation in't,
          Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven,
          And that his soul may be damn'd and black
          As hell whereto he goes.
                                            III iii 87-95

       c- Not a whit; we defy augury:  there is a special providence in
          the fall of a sparrow.  If it be now, 'tis not to come;  if it 
          be not to come, it will be now;  if it be not now, yet it will
          come:  the readiness is all;  since no man knows aught of what 
          he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?  Let be.
                                                V ii 209-214

       d- I do not think so; since he went into France, I have been in   
          continual practice;  I shall win at the odds;  but thou would'st
          not think how ill all's here about my heart, but it is no      
          matter.

                                                V ii 200-203

       e- Get thee to a nunnery, farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs marry, 
          marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you 
          make of them. To a nunnery, go, and quickly too, farewell.

                                                 III i