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Renaissance Man  The play Hamlet showcases two dimensions of the Renaissance in the 16th and 17th centuries: First, admiration and  wonder at man’s humanity. Second, a recognition of the complexity of humanity and the challenge of understanding  another’s human experience. We’ll call the first dimension Admiration and Wonder and the second dimension  Complexity and Challenge  Underline lines in the following passages that display either Admiration and Wonder or Complexity and Challenge. To  the left of the passages, under “Admiration and Wonder”, explain in your own words what young Hamlet is saying that  seems to express admiration and wonder at man’s humanity. To the right of the passages, under “Complexity and  Challenge”, explain in your own words what Hamlet is saying that seems to express the complexity of the human  experience and the challenge of understanding it.     Admiration and Wonder 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     Complexity and Challenge 

   

HAMLET 

 

 

I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation  prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the king  and queen moult no feather. I have of late‐‐but  wherefore I know not‐‐lost all my mirth, forgone all  custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily  with my disposition that this goodly frame, the  earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most  excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave  o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted  with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to  me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.  What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!  how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how  express and admirable! in action how like an angel!  in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the  world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me,  what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not  me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling  you seem to say so. 

 

 

                     

         

Admiration and Wonder     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From the end of Act II, scene II: HAMLET  Ay, so, God be wi' ye; 

                                                         

Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN  Now I am alone.  O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!  Is it not monstrous that this player here,  But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,  Could force his soul so to his own conceit  That from her working all his visage wann'd,  Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect,  A broken voice, and his whole function suiting  With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing!  For Hecuba!  What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,  That he should weep for her? What would he do,  Had he the motive and the cue for passion  That I have? He would drown the stage with tears  And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,  Make mad the guilty and appal the free,  Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed  The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I,  A dull and muddy‐mettled rascal, peak,  Like John‐a‐dreams, unpregnant of my cause,  And can say nothing; no, not for a king,  Upon whose property and most dear life  A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward?  Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across?  Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face?  Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat,  As deep as to the lungs? who does me this?  Ha!  'Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be  But I am pigeon‐liver'd and lack gall  To make oppression bitter, or ere this  I should have fatted all the region kites  With this slave's offal: bloody, bawdy villain!  Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!  O, vengeance!  Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,  That I, the son of a dear father murder'd,  Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,  Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words,  And fall a‐cursing, like a very drab,  A scullion!  Fie upon't! foh! About, my brain! I have heard  That guilty creatures sitting at a play  Have by the very cunning of the scene  Been struck so to the soul that presently  They have proclaim'd their malefactions;  For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak  With most miraculous organ. I'll have these players  Play something like the murder of my father  Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks;  I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench,  I know my course. The spirit that I have seen  May be the devil: and the devil hath power  To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps  Out of my weakness and my melancholy,  As he is very potent with such spirits,  Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds  More relative than this: the play 's the thing  Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.  Exit 

     Complexity and Challenge 

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