CHARACTERS AND QUOTES
Hamlet:
First soliloquy:
'O that this too too sallied flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew'.
Hamlet's pain is intensified by his knowledge of his restless father: first hint of foul play:
Foul deeds will rise,
though all earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
Entrance of the ghost:
Marcellus: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
The ghost appears self centred, jealous and envious as he accuses Claudius of murder, and Gertrude of adultery.
End of Act I, Hamlet cries out against cruel fate:
O cursed spite,
that ever I was born to set it right!…
