Ophelia and He Will Not Come Again
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Next: Hamlet, Human activity 4, Scene half-dozen __________ Explanatory Notes for Human activity 4, Scene 5 _________ 2. indeed distract, non just importunate, but quite out of her senses; for distract, cp. i. 2. 20, "disjoint and out of frame." 3. Her mood ... pitied, it is incommunicable non to pity her status; for will, see Abb. § 319. 5. In that location's tricks i' the world, there are strange doings going on in the earth; cp. One thousand. J. i. ane. 232, "In that location'southward toys abroad": center, chest. six. Spurns ... straws, kicks impatiently at straws in her path; is aroused at the merest trifles; cp. A. C. three. v. 17, viii, where information technology is said of Antony in a bad temper that he "spurns The rush that lies before him": in dubiousness, in dubious language. vii-xiii. her speech ... unhappily, her words in themselves convey no distinct meaning, yet, used as they are in such disorder, they provoked their hearers to try to get together some meaning from them, to slice them together, and then that they may give a coherent sense; they (sc. the hearers) brand a guess at that sense, and clumsily endeavour to arrange the words to the estimation they put upon them; and those words, as they are eked out by her winks, nods, and gestures, would certainly lead one to suppose that they possibly incorporate the thought of some great misfortune of which she is conscious, though conscious only in a dim, confused way. 14. strew, unintentionally suggest. 15. sick-breeding minds, minds ever fix to conceive evil, to put the worst construction upon annihilation said. 17. To my ... is, to my soul, ill at ease with itself, as is ever the case when guilt is present to it; cp. above, iii. one. 83, "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. " 18. toy, trifle: amiss, disaster; for the give-and-take used equally a substantive, cp. Sonn. xxxv. seven, "Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss"; and cli. 3. 19. 20. And so full ... spilt, then full of clumsy suspicion is guilt that it betrays itself in the very fearfulness of being discovered; for jealousy, = suspicion, cp. Chiliad. A. 2. two. 49, "At that place shall appear such seeming truth of Hero'southward disloyalty that jealousy shall be chosen assurance." The metaphor is that of a man who, carrying a liquid, is and then excited by his fright of spilling it that the nervous feeling causes his hand to tremble and the liquid to run over. 23, 4. know from, distinguish from. 25, half-dozen. By his ... shoon, by his wearing the habit of a pilgrim; crinkle-shells were worn by pilgrims in their hats equally emblematical of their crossing the sea to visit the Holy Land; sandal shoon, shoes formed of sandals worn nether, and fastened by straps to, the feet; shoon, an archaic plural. 28. Say you lot? what is it you say? 31, 2. At his ... stone, graves of the poorer classes, especially in village churchyards, are by and large covered with grass with a slab of stone at the foot having the date of nativity, death, etc., engraved upon it. 35. shroud, grave-dress, winding-canvas. 37. Larded, thickly covered; cp. Thou. W. four. half-dozen. xiv, "The mirth so larded with my matter"; the discussion in this sense is generally used by Shakespeare in a figurative sense. 38, 9. Which ... showers, the shroud of him who went to his grave bewept with showers of tears by his true-blue lover. 41. 'ild, yield, in the sense of advantage. 41, ii. They say ... girl, an allusion to a story, told past Douce, of Christ paying a visit to a baker'south shop and asking for a slice of bread, when the girl rebuked her female parent for giving Him too big a piece, and every bit a penalty for her niggard behaviour was transformed into an owl. 43. God ... table, be nowadays with you when yous eat. 44. Conceit ... father, her fancy dwells upon her father'due south expiry. 45. let'due south have ... this, allow u.s. take no dispute about this. 47. Saint Valentine's mean solar day, On the feast of St. Valentine, birds, according to an one-time tradition, chose their mates for the year. "From this notion," says Dyer, p. 280, "it has been suggested, arose the one time popular practice of choosing valentines, and also the common belief that the showtime 2 single persons who run across in the morning of St. Valentine's day accept a nifty adventure of becoming married to each other." Douce traces the custom of choosing lovers on this solar day to the Lupercalia of Rome, a festival held about the aforementioned date, and during which a like custom prevailed. 48. All ... betime, at the earliest dawn of day; all, merely intensive. 49. at your window, greeting you at your window. 53. cannot ... weep, cannot help weeping; cannot choose to exercise anything only weep; to think, at the thought that; the infinitive used indefinitely. 57. requite ... lookout man, sentinel her carefully. 6l, 2. they come ... battalions, they do not come similar unmarried spies sent to discover the strength of the enemy, merely in full strength to attack his position. 63, 4. and he ... remove, and he past his violence the cause of his richly-deserved banishment; for remove, = removal, cp. Lear, ii. 4. 4, "This night before there was no purpose in them Of this remove"; muddied, like a stream made dirty by heavy pelting. Delius points out that this word and unwholesome refer primarily to the blood, and so to the mood of the people. 65. Thick ... whispers, their thoughts and their language, and then far as they dare let information technology exist heard, are polluted with unwholesome matter, i.e. dangerous ideas. 66. For, on account of; greenly, without ripe judgement; cp. Oth. ii. ane. 251, "the knave ... hath all those requisites in him that folly and green minds look after"; A. C. i. 5. 74, "My salad days, When I was dark-green in judgement." 67. In underground, in this secret and hasty way; a reduplication similar hotch-potch, hocus-pocus, mingle-mangle. Malone quotes Florio'south Lexicon, "Dinascoso, secretly, hiddenly, in undercover." 68. Divided ... judgement, estranged from her ain sane judgement; out of her senses; cp. v. two. 219. 69. the which, see Abb. § 270: are pictures, are no improve than pictures. 70. and every bit ... these, and a circumstance every bit full of import as all these put together. 72. Feeds on his wonder, broods over the amazement caused by his father'southward death: keeps ... clouds, shuts himself upward in gloomy reserve. 73. wants not, is not without: buzzers, chattering fellows; fellows who go buzzing ahout him like noxious insects. 74. of his father's decease, as to the manner in which his father met his expiry. 75-7. Wherein ... ear, in which suggestions the speaker, driven by necessity to substantiate his story, and having no actual circumstances to bring as proof, will not hesitate to accuse me from one person to another. 78. a murdering-slice, or murderer, was a cannon which discharged case-shot, i.e. shot confined in a case which burst in the discharge and scattered the shot widely; hence the superfluous decease in the side by side line, any one of the missiles existence sufficient to cause death. 80. my Switzers, Swiss mercenaries were frequently employed as personal guards of the king in continental countries and even now course the Pope's babysitter. 82. overpeering of his list, when it raises its head in a higher place the boundary which ordinarily confines it; the idea is that of the great billows raising their crests as they nuance over the shore; list, limit, literally a stripe or border of textile; for the exact followed by of, run into Abb. § 178. 83. Eats not the flats, does not swallow up the level stretches of country; cp. K. J. v. 6. 40, "half my power this dark Passing these flats are taken by the tide." 84. in a riotous head, with an armed force of riotous citizens; for head, cp. i. H. IV. iv. four. 25, "a head Of gallant warriors." 85. call him lord, admit his supremacy. 86. as the world ... begin, as though the earth had simply now to be started on its career. 87. Antiquity ... known, antiquity being treated by them as something that never had whatever beingness, and custom as something which needed no recognition. 88, 9. The ratifiers ... male monarch', they, every bit though it rested with them to ratify or counteract, to support or overturn, every proffer, weep, etc. xc. Caps ... clouds, throwing upward their caps, clapping their hands, and shouting at the top of their voices, they applaud their ain determination to the very skies. 92. How cheerfully ...cry! with what "gallant chiding'" (Yard. N. D. iv. ane. 120) these hounds chase the false scent which they have then eagerly taken up! for cry, cp. T. Due south. Ind. i. 23, "He cried upon information technology at the merest loss," said of a hound. 93. this is counter, to hunt counter was to hunt the incorrect way of the scent, to trace the olfactory property backwards; and here 2 ideas are combined, that of being on the wrong scent, and that of beingness on the right scent, only hunting back in the management from which the game started instead of in the management in which it had gone. 96. give me leave, allow me to enter alone. 98. keep the door, guard the door to prevent whatsoever help being sent to the rex. 102. That thy ... giant-similar? that you have cleaved out into a rebellion which has assumed such terrible proportions? 103. Permit him go, do not effort to hold him back. 104. hedge, protect as with a hedge which cannot be passed or overleaped. 105. 6. That treason ... will, that treason is unable to do more than look over the hedge which separates it from the object of its vengeance, without being able to strike home. 110. Permit him ... fill, let him country his demands in total. 111. How ... expressionless? how came he to die? 113. grace, religious feeling; cp. R. J. ii. 3. 28, "2 such opposed kings encamp them still In man too as herbs, grace and rude will." 114. I dare damnation, in such a crusade equally this I am ready to risk eternal damnation: To this ... stand, here I firmly take my stand; this conclusion I am prepared to abide by. 115-vii. That both ... father, that, come what may, I will give upward all my hopes of happiness hither and futurity, rather than not pursue my vengeance for my father. The Cl. Pr. Edd. compare Macb. iii. 2. 16, "Simply allow the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer." 118. My will ... globe, nothing in the globe just my own free will. 119, 20. And for ... little, and every bit regards the ways at my command, I will make such prudent employ of them that, though small, they shall become far. 122. is't writ in your revenge, is information technology a part of the revenge you take prescribed to yourself? 123, 4. That, ... loser, "are y'all going to vent your rage on both friend and foe; similar a gambler who insists on sweeping the stakes [off the table], whether the betoken is in his favour or not?" (Moberly). 127. life-rendering pelican, from allowing its young to accept fish of its pouch, the pelican was popularly believed to nourish them on its life-blood; cp. R. Ii. 2. i. 126, "That claret already, similar the pelican, Hast g tapp'd out and drunkenly caroused." 128. Repast, feed, attend. Milton, Aeropagitica, p. 18, ed. Hales, uses the word figuratively, "repasting of our minds." 129. good, duteous. 131. And am ... it, and am securely pained by information technology. 132, 3. It shall ... eye, it shall force its way every bit direct to your judgement equally the daylight; It, the nominative repeated owing to the parenthesis of 1. 131. 135. heat, i.e. the heat burning in his head: seven times, i.eastward. many times: cp. the heating of Nebuchadnezzar's furnace. 136. the sense ... eye, that sensibility and belongings by which the middle is enabled to meet; cp. 50. L. L. five. 2. 348, "The virtue of your eye must interruption my oath." 137,8. thy madness ... calibration, I will verbal such retribution as shall be more than acceptable to the deed which has driven you mad; turn the axle, cause the beam of the balance to bow owing to the greater weight in our calibration. 138. of May! i.eastward. in the flower of life's leap-time. 141. mortal, subject area to destruction. 142-4. Nature ... loves, where beloved is concerned, nature shows herself in her tenderest form, and in such cases it sends some precious proof of itself (here Ophelia's soundness of mind) equally a tribute of amore to follow to the grave that which was so dear to it (here her begetter); for instance, come across note on iii. 2. 176. 145. barefaced; with his face uncovered. 140. Hey non ... nonny, "Such unmeaning burdens are common in ballads of most languages" (Nares). 149, 50. Hadst thou ... thus, no words of persuasion that you lot could urge, if you were in your senses, could stir me to revenge every bit these disjointed, incoherent, utterances do. 152. An, if; come across Abb. § 101. 153. the wheel, according to Steevens, the refrain; but the quotation past which he supports his explanation is by and large regarded every bit mythical. Malone is inclined to think that the allusion is to the occupation of the daughter whose vocal Ophelia quotes. Among other passages in some mode begetting out his view he quotes T. N. 2. iv. 45-7, "The spinsters and the knitters in the dominicus ... Practise employ to chant it"; he farther suggests as possible that the allusion may be to an instrument called by Chaucer a rote, which was played upon by the friction of a wheel. 153, iv. It is ... daughter, the carol is on the subject of the false steward who, etc. No such ballad has yet been discovered. 155. This nothing's ... matter, these incoherent words stir my soul more than sensible ones would. 156. rosemary, from Lat. ros marinus, or ros maris, as Ovid calls it, the constitute which delights in the sea spray. It was an emblem of faithful remembrance, and, according to Staunton, is here presented to Laertes, whom Ophelia in her distraction probably confounds with her lover; for, appropriate to, emblematical of. 157. pansies, from F. pensees, thoughts, of which the flower is supposed to be symbolical. 158. document, a writer in the Ed. Rev. for July 1869 shows that the word is here used "in its earlier and etymological, sense of education, lesson, educational activity." 159. fitted, each with its fitting emblem. 160. fennel ... columbines, presented to the king as emblems of cajolery and ingratitude: there'due south rue for y'all, said to the queen. 161. ii. we may ... Sundays, "Ophelia only means, I remember, that the queen may with peculiar propriety on Sundays, when she solicits pardon for the crime which she has and then much occasion to rue and apologize of, call her 'rue' herb of grace "... (Malone). 162. with a difference, co-ordinate to the author in the Ed. Rev. already quoted, one of the properties of rue was that of checking immodest thoughts, — a herb therefore appropriate to the queen. 163. a daisy, information technology does not appear to whom the daisy is given; according to Greene, quoted past Henley, it was a "dissembling" bloom, and was used as a warning to young girls non to trust the fair promises of men: violets, emblematical of fidelity. 164. made a skillful end, died equally a good man should die, at peace with all men and trusting to God's mercy; cp. H. V. two. three. 13, "A' fabricated a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child." 166. Thought, melancholy; cp A. C. 4. vi. 35. "If swift thought break it not (sc. his centre), a swifter mean Shall outstrike thought; but thought will do 't, I feel": passion, suffering: hell itself, the most terrible thoughts. 167. She turns ... prettiness, she lends a grace and attractiveness by the words in which she clothes them. 172. Become ... deathbed, i.e. you demand never hope to meet him again however long y'all may live; corresponding with 1. 177. 175. All flaxen, equally white equally flax; all, intensive. 177. And we ... moan, and nosotros but waste product our moans. 179. And of ... souls, "Many epitaphs closed with such a pious prayer as this" (Cl. Pr. Edd.). For instances of of, used for on, see Abb. §§ 175, 181. 180, 1. I must ... right, y'all exercise me the wrong unless you allow me to commune with you in your grief, i.east. unless you tell me what your wishes are in regard to your male parent'southward death, and permit me to counsel you in the thing. 181. two. Become simply ... will, practice but go aside and choose out from your friends those who are probable to give you lot the all-time advice. 184, 5. If by ... touch'd, if their verdict is that I am implicated in this crime directly or indirectly; observe, used in the technical sense of the finding of a jury; cp. 5. ane. 4. 188. Be you ... us, allow yourself patiently to listen to what I accept to say. 189, xc. And we ... content, and you lot will find that I shall effort as earnestly as yourself to give peace to your heed: labour ... soul, labour with you heart and soid. 191. His ways of death, the style of his death. 192. No trophy, in which there was no memorial erected to him; properly a monument to mark the spot at which the enemy turned and fled: hatchment, "non only the sword, simply the helmet, gauntlets, spurs, and tabard (i.e. a glaze whereon the armorial ensigns were aforetime depicted ...) are hung over the grave of every knight" (Sir J. Hawkins). 193. No noble ... ostentation, no such rites equally his rank demanded, none of the funeral pomp which he might justly merits. 194. 5. Cry, ... question, phone call so loudly, every bit it were with his vocalization from heaven, that I am bound in all filial love to inquire into the circumstances and notice out the meaning of them; cp. J. C. iv. iii. 165, "Now sit we shut virtually this taper here And call in question our necessities." 196. And where ... fall, and let the fullest vengeance fall upon him who deserves it; axe, every bit the implement used in the execution of criminals. ________ How to cite the explanatory notes: How to cite the scene review questions: | Textual Notes The first twenty lines of Human action 4, Scene 5 take been subject to much editing. The First Page (1623) omits the role of the Admirer completely, and gives his lines to Horatio. In Q2 (the 1604 text based on Shakespeare's ain manuscript) Ophelia enters before Gertrude speaks lines 17-20 and in the Folio she enters after. In Q2 line 9 reads "they yawne at information technology" but in the Folio it changes to "ayme (aim) at it." None of Gertrude's lines are spoken in an aside in either edition (which was added by Edward Capell in the 18th century), and virtually significantly, in the Folio, Horatio'south lines 14-15 -- as found in Q2 -- are spoken by Gertrude. In the Great Performances production of the play starring David Tennant (2009), they follow the Folio past omitting the office of the Gentlemen and giving Horatio's lines to Gertrude. In Kenneth Branagh'southward version of Village (1996), they split the Gentleman'southward opening lines betwixt Horatio and a Gentlewoman, and Horatio speaks lines 14-15. Giving the lines to Gertrude certainly colors her with more cunning than she normally is given credit for. If you were producing the play who would you have speak lines 14-15? Scene Questions for Review 1. Does the Gentleman'due south description of Ophelia remind y'all of Ophelia's description of Hamlet in 2.one? two. Is the expiry of Polonius the only reason for Ophelia's insanity, equally Claudius believes? To what extent do you lot think her betrayal of Hamlet weighs on her mind? iii. The fright of Polonius and Laertes has prevented Ophelia from sharing her truthful feelings throughout the play; however, in her insanity, she speaks freely. Exercise Ophelia's explicit songs give u.s. a amend sense of her relationship with Hamlet? (Delight see the notation on Goethe below for more on this topic.) 4. Can you elaborate on the sorrows Claudius lists in lines 61-78? Is there any sincerity in Claudius' speech? 5. Why is Claudius' access that they accept non buried Polonius properly of import later in the scene? (Encounter lines 66-67 and lines 191-195.) vi. Much has been written on Laertes and his role equally a foil to Hamlet. Village is a cautious and noble philosopher, at home in the library of Wittenberg; Laertes is an impulsive and worldly fighter, at home on the streets of Paris. However, Laertes is often credited with being Hamlet's superior in his instant and decisive reaction to his father's death, even though the circumstances of Polonius' expiry were entirely different from those of Hamlet'south begetter. Which lines provide the near hit contrast between Laertes' feverish resolve and Hamlet's inaction? seven. If y'all were producing the play, how would you stage Ophelia giving out her imaginary flowers? For more on this topic please see Ophelia's End - A Document in Madness. 8. Can you lot explicate the dramatic irony in Claudius' line, "And where the offence is, allow the great axe fall" (line 197)? More to Explore Village: The Consummate Play with Explanatory Notes Analysis of Uncle Claudius Claudius and the Condition of Denmark Points to Ponder ... "Should not the poet have furnished Ophelia, the insane maiden, with another sort of songs? Could not ane select out of melancholy ballads? What have double meanings and lascivious insipidities to practise in the oral cavity of this noble maiden? In these singularities, in this credible impropriety, there lies a deep sense. Practice we not know from the very first what the heed of the good child was decorated with? Silently she lived inside herself, scarcely concealing, however, her longing, her wishes. Secretly the tones of want were ringing in her soul, and how ofttimes may she accept endeavored, like an unwise nurse, to sing her senses to slumber with songs which only kept them more broad awake? At concluding, when all command of herself is taken from her, when her heart hovers upon her tongue, her tongue turns traitress, and in the innocence of insanity she solaces herself, before king and queen, with the repeat of dearest, loose songs." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Quoted in Village Ed. Horace Howard Furness. p. 274) Did You Know? ... Patrick Stewart played the role of Rex Claudius in the 1980 BBC production of the play, as part of the famed BBC Shakespeare serial for television. He then reprised the role in the film adaptation for PBS Great Performances. Yous can discover his soliloquy (3.three) for the BBC production here (found at 3:34:22) and for Great Performances here (found at vii:33). |
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