How All Occasions Do Inform Against Me

My Thoughts be Bloody, or Be Nothing Worth Name ______A Close Reading

How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason 1. What does the word “discourse” mean? What does it To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be mean in the context of this text? Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know 2. What do the words in the phrase “bestial oblivion, or Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;' some craven scruple” mean? What do they mean Sith I have cause and will and strength and means when put together like this? To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me: Witness this army of such mass and charge Led by a delicate and tender prince, 3. When Hamlet says “to do’t,” what is he talking about? Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd Why do you think this? Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure 4. Who is Hamlet talking about when he says “led by a To all that fortune, death and danger dare, delicate and tender prince”? Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, 5. What does Hamlet mean when he says “How stand I Excitements of my reason and my blood, then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, And let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all The imminent death of twenty thousand men, sleep?” Why do you think he feels this way? That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, 6. What does the phrase “the imminent death” mean? Which is not tomb enough and continent How do you know this? To hide the slain? O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!

Write a paragraph about what you expect to happen in the remaining scenes of the play. Remember to include your ideas on what will happen to all of the characters that are still alive. My Thoughts be Bloody, or Be Nothing Worth Name ______A Close Reading 7. What does Hamlet mean when he says “fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause”?

8. Have we heard this before? Where? What is he once again committing himself to do? Why?

Write a paragraph about what you expect to happen in the remaining scenes of the play. Remember to include your ideas on what will happen to all of the characters that are still alive.