Imagery

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“’Tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart.”

Francisco

Act 1 Scene 1

“Sit down awhile/ And let us once again assail your ears”

Barnardo

Act 1 Scene 1

“This bodes some strange eruption to our state.”

Horatio

Act 1 Scene 1

“O that this too too sullied flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!”

Hamlet

Act 1 Scene 2

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”

Marcellus

Act 1 Scene 4

“The leprous distilment, whose effect / Holds such an enmity with blood of man”

The Ghost

Act 1 Scene 5

“Poisons him i’ th’ garden for ‘s estate.”

Hamlet

Act 3 Scene 2

“Like the owner of a foul disease, / To keep it from divulging, let it feed / Even on the pith of life.”

Claudius

Act 4 Scene 1

“Lay her i’ th’ earth, / And from her fair and unpolluted flesh/ May violets spring!”

Laertes

Act 5 Scene 1