Hamlet
Act 3, Sc. 1, lines 134-153: What sincere emotion drives Hamlet in these speeches? Explain, citing text details.
Hamlet. Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a
breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I
could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother
had not borne me. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious,
with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put
them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them
in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth
and heaven? We arrant knaves all; believe none of us. Go
thy ways to a nunnery. Where's your father?
Ophelia. At home, my lord.
Hamlet. Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play
the fool nowhere but in's own house. Farewell.
Ophelia. O, help him, you sweet heavens!
Hamlet. If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy
dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt
not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, farewell. Or if
thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well
enough what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go;
and quickly too. Farewell.
Ophelia. Heavenly powers, restore him!
Hamlet. I have heard of your paintings well enough. God
hath give you one face and you make yourselves another.
You jig, you amble, and you lisp, you nickname God's
creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to,
I'll no more on't, it hath made me mad. I say we will have
no more marriages. Those that are married already, all but
one, shall live; the rest shall keep as they are. To a nunnery,
go.
[Exit]