Hamlet’s soliloquy from Act III, Scene i
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- He does confess he feels himself distracted.But from what cause he will by no means speak.
- For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,That he, as ’twere by accident, may here afront Ophelia.
- To be or not to be—that is the question .
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern report Hamlet’s behaviours to the King and Queen and Polonius.
- Get thee to a nunnery.
- Heavenly powers, restore him! .
- They decide to send Ophelia to test the real reason that causes Hamlet to go mad and crazy.
- I have in quick determinationThus set it down: he shall with speed to England .
- But yet do I believeThe origin and commencement of his griefSprung from neglected love.
- Hamlet enters and delivers the most famous speech in literature, beginning, “To be or not to be—that is the question” (3,1,64).
- Let his queen mother all alone entreat himTo show his grief...And I’ll be placed.
- Hamlet sees Ophelia. He questions her honesty then berates Ophelia, telling her off sarcastically and venomously, with the refrain, “Get thee to a nunnery” (3,1,123).
- The King does not believe that Hamlet is mad because of his foiled love for Ophelia, whereas Polonius persists in his belief that Hamlet has gone crazy for her daughter.
- Polonius and the King plan to arrange a private interview between Hamlet and Gertrude. Polonius is hoping to find out the truth for Hamlet’s madness by overhearing their conversation.
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