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Original. Translation. CLAUDIUS, GERTRUDE, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN enter. And can you by no drift of conference Get from him why he puts on this confusion, Grating so harshly all his days of quiet With turbulent and dangerous lunacy? CLAUDIUS.
- Act 2, Scene 2
VOLTEMAND. Most fair return of greetings and desires. Upon...
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Claudius, Gertrude, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, and...
- Act 2, Scene 2
Heavenly powers, restore him! OPHELIA. Heavenly powers, restore him! HAMLET. I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. God has given you one face and you make yourselves another. You jig and amble, and you lisp, you nickname God’s creatures and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I’ll no more on ’t.
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- Claudius
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- Hamlet
Can’t you steer the conversation to find out why he’s behaving so crazy, why his normal peaceful state of mind has been replaced with this violent, dangerous lunacy?
He didn’t seem to like being questioned. He cleverly faked madness to avoid revealing what’s really going on.
To live, or not to live: that is the question. Is it more noble to put up with all the difficulties that fate throws our way, or to fight against them, and, in fighting them, put an end to everything? Death is like sleeping, that's all. A kind of sleep that ends the countless heartaches and sufferings that are part of life – now that's something to...
Summary: Act III, scene i. Claudius and Gertrude discuss Hamlet’s behavior with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who say they have been unable to learn the cause of his melancholy. They tell the king and queen about Hamlet’s enthusiasm for the players.
Hamlet’s ‘To Be Or Not To Be’ Speech, Act 3 Scene 1. To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end.
If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy. dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou. shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go, 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.