Rachel Igoe
English Honors
G-Period
10 April 2011
Quote Analysis Act 4 Scene 5
“O, this poison of deep grief. It springs / All from her father’s death, and now behold! / O Gertrude, Gertrude, / When sorrows come, they come not single spies, / But in battalions: first, her father slain; / Next, your son gone, and he most violent author / of his own just remove; the people muddied thick, and unwholesome in {their} thoughts and whispers” (IV.V.80-86)
Claudius is overwhelmed with everything that has happened. First his brother, King Hamlet, died and then Polonius was murdered. He says that bad things don’t happen one at a time, which foreshadows that there is more chaos to come. It is ironic that King Claudius says this because he is the reason for the murders and the madness. He was the one who killed King Hamlet, which caused Hamlet to go crazy and kill Polonius accidentally. Claudius’s deceitful deed has caused everything to fall apart. Since Hamlet has not successfully had is revenge on King Claudius the reader can assume that the worst has yet to come.
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