Please help me with Act 4 quotes!

"Mad as the sea and wind when both contend/which is the mightier."

"his poisoned shot, may miss our home and hit the woundless air".

"It is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you/shall be dry again."

"the body is with the king, but the king is not/ with the body. The king is a thing___"

" A man may fish with the worm that hath eat/ of a king and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm"

"he will stay till you come"

"Do it, England,"

"My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth"

I need help with these quotes they are all found in act 4

anyone?

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Originally Posted by LilBoom

"Mad as the sea and wind when both contend/which is the mightier."

"his poisoned shot, may miss our home and hit the woundless air".

"It is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you/shall be dry again."

"the body is with the king, but the king is not/ with the body. The king is a thing___"

" A man may fish with the worm that hath eat/ of a king and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm"

"he will stay till you come"

"Do it, England,"

"My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth"

I need help with these quotes they are all found in act 4

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1. Proverbial. This metaphor works on two levels. One: Hamlet's madness is described as a tumultuous storm at sea. Two: the wind and sea competing with each other symbolizes Hamlet's fragmented personality - his consciousness is being pulled in various directions.

2. My version has "may miss our name". By being sent to England, Hamlet, his madness, and his murder of Claudius, will miss hurting the reputation of Denmark and Claudius.

3. Hamlet's answer to Rosencrantz's "Take you me for a sponge, my lord?" Claudius has used Rosencrantz and Guildenstern like a sponge to discern and clean up Hamlet's madness. After "squeezing" the two for information, the King, by implication of the lines, renege on his promised conveniences to the two, and they shall be dry and useless again.

4. A riddle. Ultimately it is taken as an insult against the King by calling him an object. Note that "thing", in Elizabethan theatre was often taken to mean "penis".

5. "Hamlet is playing on the saying that even an emperor is food for worms." - Arden.

6. "A will stay till you come." Since Claudius is dead, his body certainly isn't going to be going anywhere - thus there is no need to hurry and find it.

7. "Do it, England" - take care of Hamlet for me by executing him.

8. Hamlet is fed up with his constant procrastination to revenge his father and kill Claudius. Essentially he is saying that he will waste no more time and get to the revenge. No more wasting time thinking instead of acting. It is ironic that he says this mere moments before he is exiled.

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Originally Posted by mayneverhave

1. Proverbial. This metaphor works on two levels. One: Hamlet's madness is described as a tumultuous storm at sea. Two: the wind and sea competing with each other symbolizes Hamlet's fragmented personality - his consciousness is being pulled in various directions.

2. My version has "may miss our name". By being sent to England, Hamlet, his madness, and his murder of Claudius, will miss hurting the reputation of Denmark and Claudius.

3. Hamlet's answer to Rosencrantz's "Take you me for a sponge, my lord?" Claudius has used Rosencrantz and Guildenstern like a sponge to discern and clean up Hamlet's madness. After "squeezing" the two for information, the King, by implication of the lines, renege on his promised conveniences to the two, and they shall be dry and useless again.

4. A riddle. Ultimately it is taken as an insult against the King by calling him an object. Note that "thing", in Elizabethan theatre was often taken to mean "penis".

5. "Hamlet is playing on the saying that even an emperor is food for worms." - Arden.

6. "A will stay till you come." Since Claudius is dead, his body certainly isn't going to be going anywhere - thus there is no need to hurry and find it.

7. "Do it, England" - take care of Hamlet for me by executing him.

8. Hamlet is fed up with his constant procrastination to revenge his father and kill Claudius. Essentially he is saying that he will waste no more time and get to the revenge. No more wasting time thinking instead of acting. It is ironic that he says this mere moments before he is exiled.

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thank you very much!