Hamlet Motifs (and Relevant Quotations from Acts One and Two)

honesty and dishonesty:2.2.192-193, 2.2.220, 2.2.255, 2.2.287, 2.2.450,

appearance and truth: 1.2.79, 1.2.87-89, 1.5.114, 2.2.627-632, 1.3.84-86

corruption and virtue: 1.2. 133+, 1.4.90, 1.5.210, 1.5.49+

madness and normalcy: 1.4.81-82, 1.5.90-91, 2.1.94, 2.2.104, 2.2.159, 2.2.202, 2.2.217, 2.2.385-386

playing and acting:1.2.87, 1.2.2772.2.445-446 (etc.), 2.2.458+, 2.2.563-564, 2.2.548+, 2.2.578+, 2.2.633-634

words (speaking, writing, books, etc.): 1.3.143, 1.5.106-110, 1.5.148, 2.1.119, 2.2.117, 2.2.210+, 2.2.614

women--virtue (chastity) and vice (sexuality) [mothers, daughters, lovers, strumpets]: 1.2.150, 1.5.93-95, 1.5.112

men and manliness--fathers, uncles, friends, rivals: 1.2.67, 1.2.98, 1.2.105-11116, 1.2.143-144, 1.2.156-157, 1.2.191, 1.2.265, 1.3.50-55, 1.3.64+, 1.3.132, 1.5.46-47, 2.1.19-26

action and inaction: 2.2.593-607, 2.2.611-616

water and other fluids: 1.2.133-134, 1.4.11, 1.4.21, 1.5.69-77

responses to authority--opposing, mocking, obeying, flattering: 2.2.120-121, 1.3.145, 2.2.30b

fertility and sterility: 2.2.197-203, 2.2. 250-252, 2.2.322 & 332

youth and age: 1.3.8, 1.3.45-48, 1.5.45-47, 2.1.25, 2.2.12, 2.2.207, 2.2.306-311

life and death and the afterlife: 1.2.133-136, 1.4.73, 1.5.15-128

ghosts and spirits: 1.1 (nearly all), 1.1.173-179, 1.4 (nearly all), 1.5 (nearly all), 2.2.627-632

sleep and dreams: 1.5.42 & 66 & 81, 1.5.188, 2.2.275-279, 2.2.525-526

flora and fauna: 1.2.139-140, 1.5.39-40

fortune and fate: 2.2.247-254,

I and eye (self and seeing): 1.2.191-193, 1.2.280

food and appetites : 1.2.148, 1.2.187-188,

mirrors and likenesses: 1.1.48-51, 1.1.69-75, 1.1.120-124...for the many references to likenesses that are unrelated to the ghost's appearance scan the text for the word "like". This word is everywhere!

remembering and forgetting: 1.2.2, 1.2.7, 1.2.147