Act 3 Scene 1,2,3 and4

Claudius and Polonius spying on Hamlet

Her father and myself (lawful espials)

Cladius and deception

The harlot’s cheek, beautied with plastering art, Is not more ugly … Than is my deed to my most painted word

Hamlet and overthinking

the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought

Hamlet’s misogyny to Ophelia

Get thee to a nunnery

Hamlet and existentialism

To be, or not to be? That is the question—

Hamlet - tragic hero (he is of a high status)

‘Oh, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!—’ ‘Th’ expectancy and rose of the fair state’

Polonius spying on Hamlet and Gertrude

I’ll be placed … in the ear Of all their conference

Claudius - madness and spying

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go

Hamlet’s distrust of women

‘God has given you one face and you make yourselves another’

Hamlet embarrassing Ophelia

‘Lady, shall I lie in your lap?’ Do you think I meant country matters?’

Gertrude’s opinion of the mousetrap

The lady protests too much, methinks.

Hamlet being intellectual/ a procrastinator when he refuses to kill Claudius during prayer

—That would be scanned

Hamlet and cruelty

I must be cruel only to be kind