Famous Quotes
"This above all: to thine own self be true."
The meaning?
Polonius is giving his son, Laertes wise advice, to be true to himself and to be a gentleman. Despite what seems to be sage words, turns into a certain irony later on in the play as both Polonius and Laertes both perish due to their stubbornness.
"Frailty, thy name is woman"
The meaning?
After Hamlet's mother, Gertrude remarried his uncle, Hamlet's opinion of women deteriorated.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio/Then are dreamt of in your philosophy"
The meaning?
Hamlet says this to Horatio as the supernatural presence of his father becomes more apparent. Hamlet plays with the ideas that science and philosophy cannot explain all the goings-on in the world and indeed, the universe.
"To be or not to be, that is the questions/Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer/ The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune/ Or to take arms against a sea of troubles/ And by opposing. end them"
The meaning?
Hamlet dithers with what he thinks to be better, life or death? At this point of the play, Hamlet feels nothing but pain and suffering.
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