Hamlet’s Worldview Visual Essay

By: Alex Copp

“How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!” I. ii. 133-134

“She married:— O, most wicked speed, to postwith such dexterity to incestuous sheets!” I. ii. 156-157

“Frailty thy name is woman!” I. ii. 146

“I am thy father's spirit, doom'd for a certain term to walk the night.” I. v. 9-10

“Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, might stop a hole to keep the wind away.” V. i. 207-208

“For who would bear the whips and scorns of time…, when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?” III. i. 71-77

“The undiscover’d country, from whose bourn no traveller returns,—puzzles the will.” III. i. 80-81

“So the whole ear of Denmark is by a forgèd process of my death rankly abused.” I. v. 36-37

“Madness in great ones must not go unwatched.” III. i. 190

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” I. iv. 90

“O proud death, what feast is toward in thine eternal cell, that thou so many princes at a shot so bloodily

hast struck? V. ii. 337-339

Cited Images List (in order) http://samtoman.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/lonely-man.jpg http://www.imdb.com/media/rm557616640/ch0009779 http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/77480580/PhotoAlto-Agency-RF-Collections http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/73217398/The-Bridgeman-Art-Library http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/94985575/The-Image-Bank http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/83976200/Stone http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/93189667/Robert-Harding-World-Imagery http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/86186587/Photographers-Choice http://4and20blackbirds.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/ear.jpg http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/photos/20070504/Citizens.jpg http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/88959383/Flickr http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/91537370/Photographers-Choice http://www.freedomscope.com/Images/nuclear_disaster.jpg

Hamlet Citation Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Ed. Eisenstat, Marilyn.

Harcourt Canada: Toronto, 1988.