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Madness Navigator Hamlets descent or Hamlets ruse?

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Act 1, Scene 4 HAMLET 63 It will not speak; then I will follow it. HORATIO 64 Do not, my lord. HAMLET 64 Why, what should be the fear? 65 I do not set my life at a pin's fee; 66 And for my soul, what can it do to that, 67 Being a thing immortal as itself? 68 It waves me forth again: I'll follow it.65 HORATIO 69 What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, 70 Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff 71 That beetles o'er his base into the sea, 72 And there assume some other horrible form, 73 Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason 74 And draw you into madness? think of it: 75 The very place puts toys of desperation, 76 Without more motive, into every brain 77 That looks so many fathoms to the sea 78 And hears it roar beneath.6971727375

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Act 1, Scene 5 HAMLET 6 Speak; I am bound to hear. GHOST 7 So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear. HAMLET 8 What? GHOST 9 I am thy father's spirit, 10 Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, 11 And for the day confined to fast in fires, 12 Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature 13 Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid 14 To tell the secrets of my prison-house, 15 I could a tale unfold whose lightest word 16 Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, 17 Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, 18 Thy knotted and combined locks to part 19 And each particular hair to stand on end, 20 Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:11121316171820

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Scene 1, Act 5 "I perchance hereafter shall think meet / To put an antic disposition on" Hamlet warns Horatio and Marcellus. In the course of swearing them to secrecy about the Ghost, Hamlet adds that they can't so much as hint that they know anything, even if he should act "strange or odd." "I perchance hereafter shall think meet / To put an antic disposition on"

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Act 2, Scene 1 OPHELIA 72 O, my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted! POLONIUS 73 With what, i' the name of God? OPHELIA 74 My lord, as I was sewing in my closet, 75 Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced; 76 No hat upon his head; his stockings foul'd, 77 Ungarter'd, and down-gyved to his ankle; 78 Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other; 79 And with a look so piteous in purport 80 As if he had been loosed out of hell 81 To speak of horrorshe comes before me.74757677 POLONIUS 82 Mad for thy love? OPHELIA 82 My lord, I do not know; 83 But truly, I do fear it. POLONIUS 83 What said he?

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OPHELIA 84 He took me by the wrist and held me hard; 85 Then goes he to the length of all his arm; 86 And, with his other hand thus o'er his brow, 87 He falls to such perusal of my face 88 As he would draw it. Long stay'd he so; 89 At last, a little shaking of mine arm 90 And thrice his head thus waving up and down, 91 He raised a sigh so piteous and profound 92 As it did seem to shatter all his bulk 93 And end his being: that done, he lets me go: 94 And, with his head over his shoulder turn'd, 95 He seem'd to find his way without his eyes; 96 For out o' doors he went without their helps, 97 And, to the last, bended their light on me.92

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POLONIUS 98 Come, go with me: I will go seek the king. 99 This is the very ecstasy of love, 100 Whose violent property fordoes itself 101 And leads the will to desperate undertakings 102 As oft as any passion under heaven 103 That does afflict our natures. I am sorry. 104 What, have you given him any hard words of late?99 100 OPHELIA 105 No, my good lord, but, as you did command, 106 I did repel his letters and denied 107 His access to me.

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POLONIUS 107 That hath made him mad. 108 I am sorry that with better heed and judgment 109 I had not quoted him: I fear'd he did but trifle, 110 And meant to wreck thee; but, beshrew my jealousy! 111 By heaven, it is as proper to our age 112 To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions 113 As it is common for the younger sort 114 To lack discretion. Come, go we to the king: 115 This must be known; which, being kept close, might move 116 More grief to hide than hate to utter love. 117 Come. 109 110 111 112 115

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Act 2, Scene 2 And he, repulsed--a short tale to make-- Fell into a sadness, then into a fast, Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness, Thence to a lightness, and, by this declension, Into the madness wherein now he raves, And all we mourn for.

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Act 2, Scene 2 POLONIUS [Aside.] 205 Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't. 205 Polonius devises that they spy in secret on a private meeting between Hamlet and Ophelia He and Claudius hide while Hamlet comes in and says all kinds of horrible things to Ophelia Polonius is convinced that Hamlet is mad for love and Claudius is now convinced that Hamlet is not mad and needs to be taken out of the picture Polonius suggests that they spy on another private conversation between the queen, this time, and Hamlet. This is where Hamlet kills Polonius, not knowing who hides behind the curtain

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Act 3, Scene 1 "O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!"

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Act 3, Scene 1 "Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.

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Act 3, Scene 2 "my wit's diseased

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Act 3, Scene 3 "I like him not, nor stands it safe with us / To let his madness range" says the King to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, just before he tells them that they are to take Hamlet to England. Two scenes earlier the King commented to Polonius that "what he spake, though it lack'd form a little, / Was not like madness but now the situation is different. He has good reason to think that Hamlet knows that he killed King Hamlet. He wants to get rid of Hamlet, and Hamlet's "madness" provides a good excuse.

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Act 3, Scene 4 "Alas, he's mad!" says the Queen when Hamlet speaks to the Ghost, whom she cannot see. Later in the scene Hamlet denies that he is mad and sarcastically urges his mother to let the King, "Make you to ravel all this matter out, / That I essentially am not in madness, / But mad in craft" She promises that she will say nothing.

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Act 5, Scene 2 Hamlet, asking Laertes' pardon, says "you must needs have heard, how I am punish'd / With a sore distraction"

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