11-3-10 Hamlet's State of Mind

Hamlet feels that his father's ghost wandering around is a sign that "Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhealm them, to men's eyes."

11-1-10 Soliloquy

1. Hamlet's small speech is a soliloquy because he is on stage alone saying aloud all his thoughts, ideas, and his motives on what's going on in and outside of the kingdom.

2. Hamlet is in a depressed and melancholy mood, wishing that ,"God had not made a law against suicide." He talks about how his father has only been dead for a short period of time and how his mother is already over it because she's already gone and married his brother and he believes that no good would come from it.

Pages 10-12 Summary/Invert Syntax

1. In these pages Marcellus asks what in the world is going on, and Horatio explains to him that Hamlet and Fortinbras both have sons with the same names as themselves, but tells Marcellus that Hamlet Sr and Fortinbras Sr both fought, while a treaty said that whoever vanquished the other would have that person's land. Hamlet Sr bests Fortinbras Sr and therefore legally gains the land, however Fortinbras Jr has hired thugs to protect the land that is rightfully now Hamlet Sr's.

2. "And prologue to the omen coming on"