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Motif List 

Madness & abnormality

• “That hath made him mad.I am sorry that with better heed and judgement I had not coted him.”(2.1.123~125)
• “But if’t be he I mean, he’s very wild”(2.1.20)
• “Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced, no hat upon his head, his stockings fouled,…loosed out of hell”(2.1.87~93)
• “Madam, I swear I use no art at all. That he;s mad,’tis true”(2.2.104~105)

Death

• “Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death the memory be green, and that it us befitted”(1.2.1~2)
• “That we with wisest sorrow think on him together with remembrance of ourselves.”(1.2.6~7)
• “But two months dead–nay, not so much, not two. So excellent a king, that was… Heaven and earth”(1.2.142~146)

Mistrust

• “You shall do marvelous wisely, good Reynaldo, before you visit him, to make inquire of his behavior”(2.1.3~5)
• “And there put on him what forgeries you please–marry, none so rank”(2.1.21~23)
• “Some little time, so by your compan…lies within our remedy”(2.2.13~18)
• “I will find where the truth is hid, though it were hid, indeed, within the center.(2.2.170~171)

Incapability & confinement

• “Denmark’s prison”(2.2.262)
• “What fortune that she sends you to prison hither?”(2.2.260)
• “…nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. To me, it is prison.”(2.2.269~270)
• “O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell… merely the shadow of a dream.”(2.2.273~275)