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  1. Feb 2021
    1. For anything so o’erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her ⟨own⟩ feature, scorn her25 own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.

      this quote to my understanding is talking about giving advice to a payer about bring modest but this part fo the quote sates to not be modest is the same as looking back at yourselkf when you are a great person and instead of appriciating yourself you contstantly scorn yourself instead up until the day to die. that is my understanding of the quote.

    1. The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveler returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have90 Than fly to others that we know not of?

      this qoute make me think that the decisions that hamlet is making is like no decision ever made by anyone before and so their is no one he can ask for helpfrom and therefore he is confused about what the right decision is and he may completley based his decision off his gute feeling. that is what I'm getting at from this quote.

    2. I do wish That your good beauties be the happy cause Of Hamlet’s wildness.

      i dont exactly understand the meaning fo this quote, what does the author mean by wildness? do they mean call to action/resposability or his want for intercourse with her.

    1.  We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence,160 For it is as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.

      this line shows that the characters see that the ghost isn't some illusion or a fake by stating that it is majestical and that no amount of violence can effect it shows that they believe they have no chance of fighting it. plus I don't see why they would describe a ghost as majestic, it definition means to show great beauty but most people would consider ghost to be horrifying or a bad omen.

    2.  Thou art a scholar. Speak to it, Horatio.

      this line seems strange to me since the thing Marcellus is referring to is a ghost and some how being a scholar, which I can only guess means that he is educated, means that he is capable of speaking to the dead. may be it is a belief of that era that people who are educated have this capability to do things that normal people can't.

    3. Tush, tush,

      I have never heard such an expression before, and after looking it up and finding out it mean disapproval it reminds me of the saying pish posh which would mean some one is speaking nonsense.

    4.  For this relief much thanks. ’Tis bitter cold, And I am sick at heart.

      this line shows that even though nothing has really happened in the play the character show signs of sadness or disappointment by saying "i am sick at heart" suggesting that something bad happened to him other then the long night shift.