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"O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! / Or that the Everlasting had not fixed / His canon ’gainst self-slaughter!" (Act 1, Scene 2), Kaitlyn Leonard

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"O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! / Or that the Everlasting had not fixed / His canon ’gainst self-slaughter!" (Act 1, Scene 2), Kaitlyn Leonard

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My quote is "O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! / Or that the Everlasting had not fixed / His canon ’gainst self-slaughter!" which connects to Whistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket. Hamlet uses this line to begin his Act 1 Scene 2 soliloquy, lamenting the church's disapproval of suicide. Hamlet uses this to expand on his earlier dialogue with Gertrude, where he first addresses the source of his misery. In addition to foreshadowing his slow death in the last act, this line alludes to his sanity which diminishes throughout the play. The Falling Rocket reflects his physical and mental state, both of which begin as explosions only to then "resolve" into sporadic seas of sparks, a shell of what they once were. This turns Hamlet into a spectacle for the Court of Elsinore, adding to his paranoia of being watched. Additionally, the striking contrast of the sparks against the dark background mirrors Hamlet's feelings of isolation. These sentiments echo throughout the play as he slowly alienates himself from everyone in his life, but they are especially prominent in this scene as he struggles to cope with the loss of his father, the abandonment of Gertrude through her remarriage, and the pressure of Claudius' chidings to embrace Danish ideals of manhood.

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"There is special providence in

The fall of a sparrow.  If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not

To come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come - the

Readiness is all." This quote is said by Hamlet after King Claudius arranges a fencing match between him and Laertes, and he recognizes that Laertes wants revenge for him killing Polonius, and Claudius also wants him gone. He reflects on fate, saying that if he’s meant to die, there is nothing he can do, and he will submit to whatever fate has in store for him. This displays a belief that we are not arbiters of our own fate, which connects to the symbolism expressed in the painting ‘The Persistence of Memory’ by Salvador Dali. Dali was inspired by and interested in a philosopher who studied time, and some think that the symbolism of the still water and melting clocks was time and how we can’t control it. This is similar to the message conveyed in the Hamlet quote because both reflect how helpless the human condition can truly be, in the fact that we can’t control the passing of time or when death comes. Both Hamlet and Dali are reflecting on the fact that there’s only so much about life that we can control, that a lot is out of our control and out of our hands, and that we eventually must just submit to this and to our fate.

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"What a piece of work is a man!  How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!"

- Hamlet (II.ii.286-288)

I’ve selected starry night by van gogh. Van Gogh was someone who was struggling; he had a lot going on in his life. Van had bipolar disorder and was extremely depressed. He was in a mental hospital when he painted this. Van Gogh uses cyprus trees which are used to symbolize death. Van Gogh was inspired by Guagins belief that you had to paint how you tempered it or how it made you feel. Hamlet was extremely depressed and just trying to process everything that was happening in his life. He is putting death to question and pondering what comes after death and what is life with death. These thoughts of death plague him and cause him to go mad in a sense. Where Van Gogh uses art as therapy Hamlet's art (being a child of the theater) almost pushed him even more so into insanity. Studying the players that came to visit made him question the difference between emotions in plays as in real life. This line of question pushed him farther from sanity instead of supplying him with the means to gain understanding. Both of these men are in serious need of therapy and I feel like they would have really good conversations about death and what comes after death. Starry night has so many layers to it and the more you look at it the more you truly see which is the same for hamlet. When you first look at him you just see him as a sad son when in reality he is someone with this purpose. That purpose may drive him to insanity but it is ultimately what keeps him going. Van Gogh's purpose was art even though he received very little recognition for his work while he was alive.

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The quote from Hamlet “To die, to sleep—/To sleep—perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub!/For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,/When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,/Must give us pause.” is a famous soliloquy in which Hamlet contemplates life, death, and what comes after. I connect this to “The Starry Night”, by Vincent Van Gogh, which depicts his mental state in an almost surreal painting. Van Gogh went through depression and possibly psychosis when creating this painting, which led to an extremely expressive piece, which also includes symbolism. Cyprus trees are seen as a symbol for death, part of Hamlet's speech. Contrasting this is the night sky, which has a more solemn feel, linking to the thought of afterlife, and how it’s unknown. Space can also be connected to a sense of fear, just as Hamlet explains that we only fear death because we don’t know what follows. Hamlet’s soliloquy also encapsulates his indecision of his own life. He questions what the correct move is, knowing the injustices of life, yet also wanting revenge. Van Gogh drew “The Starry Night” during his time at an asylum, where he admitted himself due to mental issues, as well as cutting off his ear. Hamlet and Van Gogh both go through mental challenges, and each produce a different medium in which to express them.

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“Thy commandment all alone shall live within the book and volume of my brain”

Here Hamlet is saying that he will ignore all other commitments and not bother with other trifles until he finishes his task. Which means that he is in control of time. I connect this to The Persistence of Memory by Salvador DalÃ. In the painting, the melting watches are perhaps the most famous and recognizable aspect of The Persistence of Memory. They are often interpreted as a representation of the relativity of time and the distortion of memory. The melting, drooping watches suggest that time is not a fixed or objective concept, but rather a subjective experience that is affected by individual perception. So, Hamlet can manage his own time by completing the task that he wants to finish before he can move on to the next task.

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Persistence of memory

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Rohan Soorya- Act 1, Scene 3: "My lord, he hath importuned me with love In honorable fashion." -Ophelia

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Rohan Soorya- Act 1, Scene 3: "My lord, he hath importuned me with love In honorable fashion." -Ophelia

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In act 1, scene 3 of Hamlet, Ophelia is speaking with her father, Polonius, about Hamlet and his love for her. Polonius and Laertes are skeptical of their partnership and forbid Ophelia from seeing him. In the given quote, Ophelia is explaining how Hamlet has presented his love for her in a noble and honorable way. She uses the word “fashion” which Polonius then uses to describe how it's all an act, and that even when Hamlet vows on god, he is misled and young. This ties into the common motif in Hamlet of theater; Polonius is wary of trusting Hamlet’s intentions due to him being a student of the theater, and allowing his emotions to control his actions, and causing him to dissimulate.

Nothing is as it seems. Both in literature and art, this was commonly explored in the modernist movement. Duchamp represented this when he designed his Fountain. The Dada movement was interested in exploring the unknown, and furthermore, how the human brain interacted with the unknown. Fountain was radical, and forced people to “finish” the art with their mind. The common thought of a writer/reader contract was typical of modern art/literature. Authors and artists wanted to allow the perspective of the viewer to shine through. In Hamlet, Shakespeare doesn’t always give a straightforward answer to a question he sets forth. In the given quote, the reader is forced to decide if they believe Hamlet’s love to be genuine, or if it truly is just of his “fashion” like Polonius claims.

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“I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises:” -Hamlet (II.ii.280-282)

I chose Frida Kahlo’s “The Broken Column” as my painting because in the quote Hamlet is describing how lately he had lost all his cheerfulness or amusement and stopped his physical activities, and Kahlo made her painting to depict the pain she was in following her hospitalization. Both her and Hamlet are in a state of despair and deal with losses in their life that led to this. Hamlet’s father was killed by his uncle, who married Hamlet’s mother, leading to his madness. Kahlo had gone through many tragedies in her life, including getting polio at 6 years old and getting struck by a bus at 18, leading to her hospitalization and a broken spine, pelvis, collarbone, and legs. She expresses her reality through the painting, depicting a symbolic broken column representing her spine, nails embedded in her to show her chronic pain, and a corset needed to hold her together. She is bed-ridden and has very restricted movement. Following such an incident, it makes perfect sense that in the painting Kahlo has a very stern face and one can assume she lost any cheerfulness she had, at least momentarily, although she tries to gain her amusement back through her paintings, whereas Hamlet continues to wallow in his anger towards Claudius.

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Abby Neton — “What is a man if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.” — Hamlet (IV.iv.33-35) 

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Abby Neton — “What is a man if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.” — Hamlet (IV.iv.33-35) 

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I chose Object by Oppenheim to represent this quote. I believe that this quote infers that a man who can only eat and sleep is an animal. Due to this quote referencing both eating and beast, I think the fur covered cup representing the combining of something manmade and beast-like works best to represent this quote. In this quote, Hamlet is fussing over the fact that he’s having such a hard time being able to enact revenge on Claudius in order to avenge his father’s death. Saying that, a man (Hamlet) who can’t do anything other than eat or sleep (putting himself down/shaming himself) is nothing more than a beast. That, although he is of mankind, he can’t even do something that being of mankind gives him the ability to do. In relation to the fur cup, while it is still a cup in nature, it is ultimately unusable (Or I suppose, usable with extreme discomfort). Similarly, if a cup cannot fulfill something a cup is supposed to do, is it really a cup?

In Surrealism, oftentimes two objects or concepts that have no correlation to each other are combined to make something new—and usually uncomfortable, despite our familiarity with both objects on its own. Just like the fur cup, we also are familiar with the concept of ‘man’ and ‘beast’, however we often do not associate human beings or the concept of humanity of being beast-like or animalistic. We think of ourselves as above beast, which is why the thought of considering ourselves to all be animals can be uncomfortable for most. Two concepts that we are familiar with on its own, however when put together, cause a sense of discomfort. That specifically is why I believe that Object by Oppenheim is a great piece to represent this quote.

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For my quote I drew “more matter with less art”.  It is said by Gertrude in act two scene two when Polonius is dragging on about how he thinks Hamlet is going mad.  His jabbering confuses the queen and then Gertrude says this line, “more matter with less art”.  In short it just means get to the point, but what she really means is less decorative fancy speech with no meaning, and more substance that has “matter too it.  She wants more meaning from his words and less fancy talk.

That is why I picked “Orange and Yellow” by Rothko to pair with this quote.  Rothko paintings were more simplistic but still had a type of meaning to their viewers.  This painting is literally only blocks of color, there is no fancy detail and no subject matter.  It has an interesting meaning because Rothko didn’t intend for his paintings to have an exact meaning, he intended them to captivate its viewers, and almost have no meaning.  This intern gave his paintings meaning in a way.  They were only meant to exist and be a deep experience for the viewers.  Rothko also used his painting as a therapy for himself and used it to address life and his struggle.  This also gave his paintings meaning and “more matter” to himself.

“More matter with less art” is detailed in “Orange and Yellow” by Rothko because the painting is simplistic and has “less art”, but still conveys a deeper meaning of interpretation and existence to viewers and Rothko himself.  This painting is exactly what Gertrude was demanding from Polonius, lots of substance and meaning in a simplistic style.

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The Starry Night by Van Gogh - “ O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon ‘gainst self-slaughter!” - Maxden Streit

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The Starry Night by Van Gogh - “ O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon ‘gainst self-slaughter!” - Maxden Streit

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In the art of the starry night by Van Gogh, it represents much more than it seems. The tree in the middle of the painting symbolizes death. The town which was much further away than in the painting is closer to that death and the stars that light up the clear night sky are the only reason it may be considered nice. In my quote, “ O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon ‘gainst self-slaughter!” It really resonates with this painting from the idea of everything going bad but it also shows a similar thinking that Van Gogh had at the time. Van Gogh was a sad and depressed man, he was at a mental institution for some time which is where he drew this painting, it was the view from the window of his hospital. I believe he must have felt anguish at that time, moreover his use of death is really interesting, he places a tree that symbolizes death in the middle of the town as if everyone is to die under the starry night. At the same time as this piece depicts death, it also shows a very nice night sky. As for how this painting is similar to Hamlet, Hamlet was for most of the book, also in deep anguish because of his fathers death. Hamlet often wished for his own death in the beginning of the book but it entirely changed after learning about the killer. However, there is still death that hamlet wants, which is how it may be connected to the tree in the starry night. Hamlet uses his words in the speech to show how horrible he is feeling and the way he expresses that could just be the same as how Van Gogh uses his art to show his thoughts and feelings. Hamlet was an actor who portrayed his thoughts and feelings through acting. In the end, they are both arts that are used by both men to symbolize and show their emotions, in this way they become very similar but in a much different way.

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“How is it that the clouds still hang on you? - Claudius (I.ii.66) This quote is said by Claudius to Hamlet, because Claudius is confused on how Hamlet could still be grieving his father. The painting that I chose to relate this quote to is The Persistence of Memory, by Dali. I believe that these two relate because The Persistence of Memory focuses on the topic of time. It shows how it keeps on moving, and showing that we can't control time. In the painting, there are clocks that look to be melting, and one clock is being consumed by ants. I think that this is showing how time passes no matter what, whether we like it or not. When Claudius says this quote in the book, he is confused that Hamlet is still grieving, when he believes that many other people would have moved on by now. The only way that Hamlet was truly able to heal from the death of his father was later revealed to be revenge, but I believe that he also healed from another thing, and this thing was the passage of time. Sometimes letting time pass from when something bad occurred, is one of the only ways for someone to heal. This why I think that this quote, and this painting overlap together.

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Elena Dallstream- Thus Conscience does make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought -Act 3 scene 1, lines 83-85

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Elena Dallstream- Thus Conscience does make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought -Act 3 scene 1, lines 83-85

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This quote comes later in the To Be or Not To Be monologue, which takes place when King Claudius and Polonius are spying on Hamlet, in his peak state of madness, while he talks to Ophelia, ranting on and on about death and the moral troubles that come with it. In these lines specifically, he addresses consciousness which “makes cowards of us all” basically saying that the very thing that makes us alive and sentient holds us back from the dangers of impulse. In this quote he is in somewhat of a manic episode, so he continues explaining that the “native hue of resolution is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.” So the way all episodes like this end, the way god (for lack of a better word) intended, which ideally would be reflective and make the person relieved that they didn’t do whatever their impulse was telling them to, is damaged by the remaining thought of carrying out whatever action. Whatever risky thing you wanted to do that you’ve now convinced yourself not to, you can’t be relieved because you can’t stop thinking about what would happen IF you did carry out the action. You spend so much time and effort reminiscing of what could have been, you can’t truly reap the benefits of not doing what impulse told you to do. So in a way, you’re not over it and it hasn’t been resolved, and that’s the true nature of resolution. Though it took some thought, I associate this quote with Impression Sunrise by Monet. This painting was displayed at the first exhibition of t(e Impressionists, and unlike academic paintings of the time, it lacked a descriptive title. It tells the viewer what they’re looking at, an artists idea of a sunrise, but that’s it. Otherwise, the audience has to come up with their own ideas about the painting. The borders of the canvas are muddy and unclear, and it gets slightly more detailed towards the center, but the main focus is the contrast between the muggy view of the sea and the bright orange rising sun. Workers and tugboats can be seen below, presumably having worked all night. As the sun illuminates them, it shows the resolution of their hard work and that it is time for them to go home. Their shift is over, but they still feel the achiness and the exhaustion that comes from a day of work, which, in a way, ruins the magic of going home. Their shift is over, but the relief is sicklied by the pale cast of exhaustion.

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“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like is a god!” - Hamlet (Act 2, Scene 2)

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“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like is a god!” - Hamlet (Act 2, Scene 2)

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I’ve selected this painting as not only it connects to the quote literally but in a literary way. For context, Polonius sends Rosencranz and Guildenstern to probe Hamlet into giving them information about his madness. I believe that this quote highly resembles the “Vision After the Sermon” because of the way Gauguin integrated his feelings about religion into the painting along with the way Hamlet played on divinity in this scene. Gauguin, an individual who wondered about the afterlife and religion,  openly studied multiple religions and practices hoping to find an answer as to figure out what was “right.” Even until his later years, he still questioned religion and adopted many styles in his paintings. In contrast to that, Hamlet, who knew about Rosencranz and Guildensterns’ plan to deceive him not only plays along with them in a joking manner while poking at them for such a flawed plan, he quickly deduces what they were up to.  He’s quick and cunning to expose their plan and even mocks them “What a piece of work is a man,” and “How infinite in faculties - in apprehension like a god!” He plays this in a way that even a being as infinite as God made a man who is infinite in understanding and well designed could even try to fool him. In both paintings, they both question God in the sense where Gauguin directly questions God by Jacob (Gauguin) wrestling an angel (God) for the truth by the Tree of Knowledge while Hamlet questions how God could make such a great creation and fail to fool him with lies. Along with this, they both have an underlying theme of questioning the divine about the truth.

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“The rest is silence.” - Hamlet (V.ii.337)

To reflect the meaning behind this quote, I chose to highlight the painting Persistence of Memory by Salvador DalÃ as a work of art that reflects and connects to Hamlet’s statement.

Throughout the entire play, Hamlet is constantly questioning his mortality and is, to a degree, obsessed with death and contemplating everything to do with itâ€”is it worth it to live, is death merely a relief from suffering, etc. In Persistence of Memory, DalÃ is questioning all things time relatedâ€”the merits of not being able to halt time, how it is merely a social construct, etc. Both of these paintings reflect the internal struggle to make sense of something so far out of our reach as humansâ€”time and death, two intrinsically intertwined subjects. Without time, there is no death, and to contemplate time to such a degree you must contemplate death. In my interpretation of Hamlet’s statement, “â€”the rest is silence,” I believe he is reflecting on his thoughts on death. This particular statement is said at the end of the play where Hamlet himself is on the brink of death and is truly faced with the end of time as he will perceive. With this particular statement, it shows how he has almost come to peace with death as he believes it will instill an end to his suffering. After spending the whole book contemplating his mortality, he is essentially contemplating his time left conscious on earth, and I believe this echoes DalÃ’s painting and his own contemplations. In DalÃ’s painting Persistence of Memory, he paints melting clocks, ants eating a pocket watch, and abstract figures which exemplify the haziness of time. Time is something so grand and far beyond our understanding and DalÃ creates this feeling by painting something that truly is subjective. By doing this, he guides his viewer to contemplate time and create their own thoughts and opinions on it, which is what Hamlet did the entire play. Both of them are contemplating the time we have left on this earth and thus reflecting on the merits of mortality.

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Vision After the Sermon-Gauguin

I chose to connect Vision After the Sermon with this quote from Hamlet. I chose this piece because I felt like they shared attributes of religion, from Hamlet trying to reach out to god about how troubled he feels on earth, to the details in the painting like the nuns and an angel fighting against Jacob. These elements make it clear that the painting has a theme of religion. I even imagined the fight between the angel and Jacob as Hamlet's mental battle against “self-slaughter” as he mentions in another quote from the book in act 1 scene 2, “"O, that this too too solid flesh would melt thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter!”. I feel like this painting strongly relates, and gives imagery to Hamlet’s battle of questioning if it’s worth going on in life, specifically at the loss of his father, to his religion and obedience to god. I also connected all the nuns observing the fight that is happening with how Hamlet might feel like all eyes are on him while he's going through this internal battle. I feel like this would only add to Hamlet's feeling of loneliness in feeling like nobody was on his side, or understanding the pain he was having to go through by himself, meanwhile his mom is off getting married to his uncle (dads brother). I think that the two of these also have the ability to connect with many living in modern day, in how sometimes even when we’re surrounded by people, we can feel so alone in our struggle.

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“O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.

- Hamlet

I chose to connect this quote with “The Broken Column” by Frida Kahlo. In the quote, Hamlet is speaking towards his sense of confinement, feeling as though he is bounded within a “nutshell”. However, even with this confinement, Hamlet still believes that he’s able to achieve his goals (a king of infinite space). The only thing stopping him is his “bad dreams”, or his troubled mind.

In “The Broken Column” by Frida Kahlo, she is also depicted as confined, or limited. Due to her accident at a young age, Kahlo was stripped of many of her physical abilities. In the painting, she depicts this, showing the constant pain that she suffers through. Despite this, Kahlo looks confidently into the viewers eyes, displaying her determination and dedication to achieve her goals.

When comparing these two pieces, we can see striking similarities. Both Kahlo and Hamlet have been limited, either mentally or physically. However, both are determined to press forward and achieve their goals. Furthermore, the surrealist feature of a dreamlike landscape connects with the quote. In the quote, Hamlet talks about his potential to be “A king of infinite space”. This can be applied to Kahlo’s painting, since the background is almost limitless. This sense of limitless can be seen as the amount of potential that both Hamlet and Kahlo have.

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My quote by hamlet is “Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.” - hamlet Act 3 scene 2. I connect this with Guernica by Picasso because in this quote, hamlet is telling Guildenstern that he can annoy him but he can’t fool and manipulate him like an instrument. He says this because Guildenstern is sent by Hamlets mother because his play upset her and the court. Guildenstern tries his best to get hamlet to go to his mother but hamlet sees through his mother’s motives and informs Guildenstern he cannot play him like an instrument into a trap like an animal being hunted. This connects to Guernica by Picasso because both are against manipulation and strive to display reality. Hamlet is displaying the reality of his mother and the king and their accomplices trying to trap him but failing to do so, and this painting is displaying what horrible scenes are happening as a result of WW2. Picasso was originally commissioned by Paris to paint a painting for the worlds fair, but instead, after the first civilian bombing of a small town in Spain by the nazis, he decided to paint the scene of the civilian bombing to show the reality of the war to everyone and show the emotions of such a horrifying scene. He used a cubist style to emphasize the sense of dispair and chaos, and the overall message of the painting was anti war. Dispair is shown by the women on the left holding her child. The dismembered arm with a sword emphasizes chaos and defeat. The horse stabbed symbolized the death of innocent bystanders to a destructive war. Picasso uses all of these to spread awareness on the reality of the war and the crimes the nazis have committed and comparatively hamlet uses an instrument to show how he cannot be played and manipulated, and to spread light on the fact that he knows what the court is trying to do (trap him) and that he won’t fall for it.

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There's the respect

That makes calamity of so long life,

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

The oppresser's wrong, the proud man's contumely, (humiliating insults)

The pangs of disprized love, the law's delay....

- Hamlet (III.1.68-72)

The quote is a small part of his famous soliloquy when he is questioning whether he wants to live or die since the news of his father’s death. Much like the quote, Vision After The Sermon by Paul Gauguin, also relates to the idea of life and death. The painting features people being let out of a church service and them having a vision of Jacob wrestling an angel. Both the painting and quote can relate to life and what life is after death such as a forever sleep for Hamlet and the higher power that saves your souls after death in the painting. The composition of the painting also matches the mood of the Hamlet quote. The painting features lots of bold colors such as the red background which can connect to the intense emotions Hamlet feels during his soliloquy.

The words of the quote continue to connect to the painting though matching the feeling of the painting. Hamlet uses words such as “whips” and “scorns.” This can easily be connected to the fight Jacob is having with the angel. The fight seems very violent and brutal so the harsh words match it perfectly.

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Quote:

So full of artless jealousy is guilt,

It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

Gertrude (Act 4, Scene 5 19-20)

Translated w/ meaning:

So full of (awkward, stupid) (unreasonable suspicions) is guilt,

It (destroys) itself in fearing to be (divulged- make known).

Painting: The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí

I chose this painting because it connects to the quote and how it talks about unreasonable suspicions that can lead people to make bad choices in fear of being found guilty. These are things that we don’t truly know just like how in the painting, “The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali” shows many disfigured objects scattered throughout the painting. The way the items are warped sort of connects to the suspicions that are talked about in Hamlet. The suspicions could be true or false but we don’t know, just like how the objects aren’t actually an object. There are also multiple clocks that make me think of the part of the quote where it says, “It (destroys) itself in fearing to be (divulged- made known).” I think this because it is almost like the quote is saying that one destroys themself when they’re running out of time or scared of the truth being revealed. The melting clocks symbolize the questioning of time and our control of it. Which connects to how one would destroy themself out of guilt. When one tries to escape guilt or not fall prey to it they end up becoming truly guilty. This is what we can’t control.  With ants eating the pocket watch, it could represent time running out which could represent someone feeling more guilty (having the guilt eating away at their subconscious) as time passes. The painting as a whole connects to psychological ideas such as the subconscious which relates to the subconsciousness shown in the Hamlet quote.

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Camryn Larsen: Act 1 Scene 5 “Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark”-Marcellus 

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Camryn Larsen: Act 1 Scene 5 “Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark”-Marcellus 

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In Act 1 Scene 5 of Hamlet, Marcellus states that “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” In the context that he, Horacio, and Hamlet were trying to contact the ghost of Old Hamlet. The ghost is what Marcellus believes to be the symptom of the country’s sickness. Then, as the tragedy unfolded we learn that Claudius’s crimes and immoral actions against his brother, Old Hamlet, are what has been “rotten” in Denmark. The moral corruption of leaders in society, or of the society itself, is a very popular theme in art. One of the main motives for artists to create art is to comment on the world around them, critiquing or praising certain parts of the human experience. For example, when looking at Vision After the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling With the Angel) by Gauguin his main focus was conveying how corrupted he believed the current Industrial Age to be. Before beginning his career as an artist, Gauguin was a stockbroker until the market crashed. Then, he went through a bit of morally questionable time himself, until he ended up in a small rural town in the South of France with a community of people who followed an Amish-adjacent lifestyle. He loved this community and developed a stance that the money and power of modern society was corrupting it, and began to have Post-Impressionistic values such as that spirituality, nature, and changing your perspective are the most fundamental elements of a persons’ life. In Vision After the Sermon, Gauguin depicted these beliefs, the foreground showing the religious people of the town in Southern France praying and peacefully watching Jacob wrestle the angel in the middle right of the vast red space. Jacob, who personifies modern society, is wrestling with the angel, who represents morality and spirituality. Gauguin’s commentary on the corruption he’s experienced in his life with this painting can be connected to Marcellus’s comment on the state of Denmark. Both men have realized that the world they live in has been greatly corrupted by crime, immoral leaders, and their power.

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“Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.” Ophelia (IV.v.43)

Painting- Boys in a Pasture, 1874 by Winslow Homer

When reading this quote it deeply put me in a sense of doubting my whole life. Ophelia know’s who she is at the moment, but that does not apply to the future. The future, or what “we may be,” is unknown. It’s impossible to know how events will influence how one’s life plays out.
The painting Boys in a Pasture spoke to me. With just reading the quote I had an idea of what this would look like, and this painting captures it all. Homer's depiction of children at bay, expresses a hope  and or fear for the future. Quite moments like this allows the space for thoughts to take over the mind. The opportunity to share dreams and aspirations, or even just being persistent invokes a sense of wonder.
“Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.” Is vastly a question about what the future may contain and how we all change. From childhood there things we do that build character and make us who we are. But the world has ways to alter that personality and character we develop from our parents and childhood in good and bad ways.

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Claire Thome - Nocturne in Black and Gold: Falling Rocket by Whistler 

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Claire Thome - Nocturne in Black and Gold: Falling Rocket by Whistler 

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“Oh woe is me

T’have seen what I have seen, see what I see.” - Ophelia

This line by Ophelia reveals how she’s been feeling towards Hamlet. This line is powerful for her because she try’s to express how noble Hamlet was, but after what he said and did, she thinks he is lost. Ophelia uses the words, “blasted with ecstasy”, meaning “blighted by madness”. These words and the whole line, show Ophelias reaction to Hamlets state of being. This is especially powerful because Ophelia doesn’t say too much throughout the book. Ophelias line connects to the painting, “Nocturne in Black and Gold: Falling Rocket by Whistler” because it generates the discussion over “what is art?”. Just like the painting, Ophelia asks herself, “what kind of person is Hamlet?”. Whistler was one of the artists that started the transition into abstract work. He was labeled “artist of the future”. Glancing at this painting for the first time, you aren’t really sure what it is. Once you really look and hear the story behind it, you start to see the beach and fireworks appear. At first in the book, Ophelia feels she has found love with Hamlet. But once he shows aggression towards her father, she starts to see the real him. Ophelia is making a “before and after” comparison of Hamlet. Similar to “Nocturne in Black and Gold: Falling Rocket”, you might think differently about it before and after realizing what it truly is.

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Kiara Salas- Act 2 Scene 2 “Words, words, words.” 

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Kiara Salas- Act 2 Scene 2 “Words, words, words.” 

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Painting: Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) - Jackson Pollock

I chose this painting to connect with this quote, because I feel like the painting reflects the nature of Hamlet's words. In this scene, Polonius is trying to have a conversation with Hamlet to discover if his erratic behavior is because of his love for Ophelia. Hamlet seems to be acting in a very irrational way, and many of his replies seem very vague. When Polonius asks him: “What do you read my lord?” Hamlet simply replies, “words, words words.” I think Hamlet's attitude really fits with this painting, and I think it fits with the phrase we used to describe the painting of “controlled chaos.” In Pollock's Autumn Rhythm, it appears as if the whole painting is out of control, and it appears completely disorganized. However when analyzing it further, the viewer discovers a lot of intentional techniques that Pollock uses to bring the painting to life. I think this idea fits with the way Hamlet is acting. Even though it appears as if he’s simply lost his mind, in reality, his way of acting is completely intentional. He is purposefully acting irrationally in order to achieve his goal. I also feel like this painting connects with the quote because at first glance, the painting can also appear “vague,” when in reality it has a purpose. Pollock wanted everyone to be able to experience art, and in this painting, he tried to convey the angst that many felt after World War 2. Similarly , a lot of Hamlet's “vague” words were actually filled with meaning and defiance. Overall, I feel like Hamlet's attitude really ties in with many Modernism traits. Modernists looked to challenge the typical standards of art, and this similarly reflects Hamlets challenging, and defiant attitude.

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Heart of Andes - Frederic Edwin Church

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy”

Hamlet and Horatio have both just seen a ghost. But as they hear the voice of the ghost come up from the ground beneath them, Horatio says that this is strange, as if he cannot believe it. Horatio seems to be sceptical, despite what he and Hamlet have both just witnessed. Hamlet was suggesting to him that after what they had seen, anything could be possible in the world. He was also stating how human imagination is limited and there are many things we dont even know of, things we haven’t even dreamt of. The line expresses wonder, mystery, the feeling of not knowing what’s out there and uncertainity. The romantics captured all of these emotions in their paintings or expressed these ideas. One in particular was Church’s “Heart of Andes”. He had gone to South America and captured several locations he saw there and exposed them to the Western world. When Americans saw it, some would faint because they never knew something so beautiful could exist. The romanticts showed how nature was infinite and humans could never completely fathom everything that is possible. While the painting is beautiful it also makes you ask yourself “What else is out there in the world”. Church’s painting proved Hamlet’s claim that human imagination is limited, because no one could have even believed that a place existed before it was presented to the western world. There will always be uncertainty in the world, but there's a beautiful element to it and humans should not be afraid of that. Instead of fearing uncertainty, humans should embrace it because it can lead to beautiful things. Hamlet is seen to embrace this uncertainty of ghosts, rather than questioning it he just accepts what he has seen. He demonstrates the ideology many romantics wanted to portray through their paintings, showing how humans should embrace the mysterious but beautiful elements of the world. While Hamlet found comfort in the ghost because it was his father and he felt connected to him and sought him out instead of his mother and Claudius. Romanticts found comfort in nature, because it brought a spiritually enhancing ability which they preferred rather than going to man made objects. Both Hamlet and the Romanticts embraced the uncertainty with unconditional love.

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“To be or not beâ€”that is the questionâ€”Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them.” This is the introductory portion of Hamlet’s famous soliloquy. With Hamlet setting an image of suffering as the initial backdrop for his speech, I chose Guernica by Picasso as the painting that best connects to this specific quote. Meant to be a representation of nazi bombings in Spain, Guernica depicts a scene of utter chaos, with dead and/or suffering people and animals strewn about. Picasso made this piece when commissioned to do a piece for the 1937 world's fair. He was horrified when he heard the news of Guernica being bombed due to nazi involvement in the Spanish civil war. Picasso created Guernica as a powerful anti war message that was incredibly shocking to many viewers when it was unveiled, quickly becoming one of his not his most famous paintings. I believe that this painting connects very well with the Hamlet quote as they both demonstrate large amounts of suffering of humanity. With Hamlet’s quote discussing the general suffering and chaos that life presents, along with the debate of whether it is better to fight back against them or not, as well as showcasing rebellion in his quote that is also heavily present in Guernica. Both Hamlet’s quote and Guernica illustrate the chaos and suffering of humanity in very similar ways. Which makes them very solid compliments to each other and prime examples of Hamlet and Modernism connecting.

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“Oh my offense in rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon’t, A brother’s murder.” This quote is said by Claudius, reflecting on his feelings of guilt towards the killing of King Hamlet, his own brother. The painting I selected is Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket by Whistler. I chose this painting because it reflects Claudius’s internal conflict. Claudius is experiencing feelings of guilt for murdering his own brother and taking over the thrown. The painting is dark, foggy, and features bright sparks. These elements of the painting represent a dark state of mind, which is caused by his guilt. The bright exploding sparks represent his raging guilt taking over. The figures in the painting represent his brother, king hamlet haunting his mind, reminding him of what he did. In the quote where he states “Oh my offense in rank, it smells to heaven”, he is describing what he did as an offense to heaven, and something that would smell foul because it’s wrong. This painting emphasizes that, as it is dark and the opposite of what is seen as belonging in heaven. The painting is a visual demonstration of what is going on in his subconscious mind, his feelings of guilt.

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"To die, to sleep -

To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub,

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause."

- Hamlet

This quote is delivered by Hamlet to himself in Act 3 scene 1 of the play. In this quote, Hamlet is thinking out loud about death. He longs for death and with it to be relieved of his sufferings on Earth. He goes on to consider the stipulations that go along with death. He realizes that the uncertainty of life after death and uncertainty as to what it may look like prevents people from taking the bargain of suicide. Paul Gauguin’s painting, Vision After the Sermon, connects to my quote in that it depicts an internal struggle and asks questions about the universe. Vision After the Sermon is a symbolistic painting featuring Jacob wrestling with an angel. The fight is a physical depiction of an internal struggle which is similar to what Hamlet experiences in his quote. Hamlet wrestles with the idea of death, questioning whether it is better to die. Hamlet is a Christian and thus forbidden from self slaughter. Being a Christian, Hamlet shouldn’t even be considering death as an option nor debating what dreams will follow. This aspect relates to Vision After the Sermon as well because in the painting Gauguin seeks to ask questions about the universe and challenge spirituality just as Hamlet does in his quote. I chose Vision After the Sermon because Paul Gauguin’s message in the painting closely correlates to the conflict Hamlet experiences in my given quote.