ENG4U1 Analyzing IMPORTANT Quotations from Act II, Scene Ii of Hamlet

ENG4U1 Analyzing IMPORTANT Quotations from Act II, scene ii of Hamlet

After reading and viewing Act II, scene ii of the play, thoughtfully analyze the FIVEmost important quotations/examples of dialogue from this scene (NOT including Hamlet’s “O what a rogue and peasant slave am I” soliloquy), paraphrase each quotation (identify what is being said by the character in your own words), and analyze the deeper meaning and significance of these words to the play overall (consider connections toliterary elements such as character development, plot development, thematic analysis, setting, figurative language, etc.)
Complete the analysis chart below with detailed information pertaining to the key quotations provided.

A Key Quotation from Act II, scene ii / Paraphrase the Quotation
(State what is being said in your own words) / Analyze the Quotation
(Connect to important literary elements and discuss its implications on the play as a whole)
POLONIUS: At such a time I’ll loose my daughter to him./[To the King] Be you and I behind an arras then./Mark the encounter. If he love her not,/And be not from his reason fall’n thereon,/Let me be no assistant for a state,/But keep a farm and carters.
(II. ii. 176-181)
A Key Quotation from Act II, scene ii / Paraphrase the Quotation
(State what is being said in your own words) / Analyze the Quotation
(Connect to important literary elements and discuss its implications on the play as a whole)
POLONIUS: Do you know me, my lord?
HAMLET: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.
AND
POLONIUS: Though this be madness, yet there is/method in ‘t.
(II. ii. 189-191, 223-224)
A Key Quotation from Act II, scene ii / Paraphrase the Quotation
(State what is being said in your own words) / Analyze the Quotation
(Connect to important literary elements and discuss its implications on the play as a whole)
HAMLET: Denmark’s a prison.
AND
HAMLET: …there is/nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it/so.
AND
HAMLET: What is this quintessence of dust?
(II. ii. 262, 268-270, 332)
A Key Quotation from Act II, scene ii / Paraphrase the Quotation
(State what is being said in your own words) / Analyze the Quotation
(Connect to important literary elements and discuss its implications on the play as a whole)
HAMLET: I am but mad north-north west. When the/wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
(II. ii. 402-403)
A Key Quotation from Act II, scene ii / Paraphrase the Quotation
(State what is being said in your own words) / Analyze the Quotation
(Connect to important literary elements and discuss its implications on the play as a whole)
HAMLET: O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure/hadst thou!
POLONIUS: What a treasure had he, my lord?
HAMLET: Why,/One fair daughter, and no more,/ The which he loved passing well.
POLONIUS: [Aside] Still on my daughter.
(II. ii. 427-433)