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Quote #3

giuliagozzani — 2013-12-10 02:03:10 UTC

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.

Quote #1

giuliagozzani — 2013-12-10 02:03:44 UTC

Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Quote #2

giuliagozzani — 2013-12-10 02:05:03 UTC

To die, to sleep -
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...

Quote #4

giuliagozzani — 2013-12-10 02:05:43 UTC

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

To Be Or Not To Be - Hamlet - David Tennant

giuliagozzani — 2013-12-10 02:09:11 UTC

Quote #5

giuliagozzani — 2013-12-16 23:30:23 UTC

A dream itself is but a shadow

Quote #1- Explication

giuliagozzani — 2013-12-17 00:16:29 UTC

What can begin as a dream, becomes your ambition once work or action is set in motion to obtain the dream. The part "...merely a shadow of a dream" could also mean that ambition can cloud your original vision or get in the way of your dream. It turned into an obsession that became something that was only a shadow of the original dream.

Quote #2- Explication

giuliagozzani — 2013-12-17 00:22:52 UTC

Hamlet is reflecting on the possibility of suicide and ways the simplicity of ending it all then comes to the realization that no one knows what happens when we die with the line "to sleep: perchance to dream: Ay, there's the rub; for in that sleep of death what dreams may come." It is at this point Hamlet realizes there is a downside or a catch to suicide.

Quote #3- Explication

giuliagozzani — 2013-12-17 00:23:37 UTC

Hamlet is saying that he is sane, he is happy to do the things that are expected of a young prince of Denmark, he is happy with a normal life. However, he is tortured by "bad dreams". The bad dreams can be interpreted various ways. It could be said that by "bad dreams", Hamlet means bad events - that is, the murder of his father. He could be saying that he would be happy to live a normal life, were it not for the bad things that keep happening to him. Of course, you could say that the bad dreams represent Hamlet's growing madness - he would be happy inside his own head, if he wasn't going mad. Finally, in the passages before this quote, Hamlet says that Denmark is a prison. In saying that the inside of a nutshell is infinite space, he could be emphasizing just how confined he feels in Denmark.

Quote #4- Explication

giuliagozzani — 2013-12-17 00:34:45 UTC

The meaning of this quote is that often when things seem wrong, confusing or unjust that there is more to a system than meets the eye, levels of truth, meaning and complexity not visible to the casual observer. In the specific case, Horatio who was part of the unfolding plot was unable to see the rationale for the ghost's behavior

Quote #5- Explication

giuliagozzani — 2013-12-17 00:37:44 UTC

Hamlet is saying that sometimes it’s hard to determine the difference between what is real and not real. Your dreams are merely a shadow in your mind.

giuliagozzani — 2013-12-17 00:41:23 UTC

Hamlet Dreaming