The 10 Most Important Quotes in Hamlet

[@DrAidan]

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[@ayesha4879]

chat am i cooked

[@AbdulahiHussein-vo1dx]

I'm cooked I've had a substitute teacher for 4 weeks and I have not learnt anything

[@asignsal]

HELP

[@elizabethmckittrick6958]

I'm currently in my first year of university and am studying science. I've missed studying literature so much. This video was refreshing - so glad I can continue learning without formally studying literature in school.

[@DrAidan]

That's good to hear. I'm very pleased that you enjoyed it. Thanks for letting me know.

[@Amanda-hn5mi]

I'm in my first year too and I miss science... I am doing Literature and I enjoy it a lot. Reading Hamlet for assignments ...did Haider last semester and honestly I thought Shakespeare is difficult

[@arpitdas4263]

Same here, Literature is so much fun

[@glennhall8665]

It’s only recently that I’ve realised what the words “To be or not to be” actually mean.. 🤷‍♂️ They just mean ‘To live or not to live’ - which, in plainer English, just means: “Is it best for me TO STAY ALIVE, or for me TO NOT STAY ALIVE?” 💁‍♂️ (I just turned 60. Never too old to learn something). 😉

[@Robbins-r7i]

Omg thank you so much btw I'm 15 u saved my 15years lmao 😂

[@JoshuaSouthgate]

Saving my ass rn

[@Icha74]

What an amazing analysis of Hamlet’s quotes! Thank you!

[@DrAidan]

Icha74 thank you! I’m pleased it was helpful.

[@Icha74]

@@DrAidan yes it was indeed helpful. I've listened to your five traits of a Shakespearean drama and it helped a lot too. My motive for learning Hamlet is different from others, in that I don't learn it for exam. Instead, a favourite Japanese actor of mine is going to perform as Hamlet next year in Japan, and the play is directed by Simon Godwin from the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Hence I want to learn more of Hamlet to see how faithful the show would be, considering that all lines are most likely to be delivered in Japanese.

[@ElizabethGlasby]

Doing my ATAR English external exam tomorrow . Needed to memorise some quotes . Thanks a lot

[@DrAidan]

No problem. Glad you found it useful. I hope the exam goes well tomorrow.

[@eddielatino9]

I came to the end of my interest in pointless humor hungering scrolling and have fallen in love with literature and history. Thankful for these commentaries! I feel there’s so much to learn that I chose to ignore in primary school and early college. Thanks!!!

[@DrAidan]

Brilliant! Not a problem at all and I'm very glad to hear that you are finding the videos useful.

[@bullz_10]

Very useful for Literature Essays.... Really helped me with my exam 👌🏾

[@DrAidan]

I’m very pleased to hear that. Thank you for letting me know.

[@XyzXyz-mm9vq]

A very in-depth and thorough analysis of the quotes. Thank you so much.

[@seanmacreachtain1742]

Thanks for this video my guy, a lot of points I haven’t seen elsewhere, very useful.

[@DrAidan]

That's kind of you to say: thank you.

[@azyle2104]

Just wanted to say that I'm really grateful for this video , extremely helpful in terms of polishing up for an examination 😌. Keep up the GREAT work !

[@DrAidan]

That's very kind of you to say: thank you.

[@azyle2104]

@@DrAidan welcome 😌

[@Greymatter57]

Nice video. But there are two of my favourite quotes from Hamlet which is not mentioned here : "The body is with the king but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing made of nothing." "This be madness, there is a method in it."

[@karmathadrai6284]

1.)40,000 brothers, could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum. 2.)Time is out of joint O cursed spite. 3.)there are more things in heaven and earth,horatio than are dreamnt in your philosophy

[@Abhi-cn4zu]

Zetsuen no tempest

[@epictetusphilosophy]

You forgot "I loved Ohpelia"

[@iz_echo6363]

Anyone here for last resort for later today?

[@orangejuice8881]

yup

[@danielrooney7964]

God bless bro

[@beyzanr]

it helps a lot, thank you!

[@niconicokneecaps1318]

Thank you for this video! I'm an Irish student and I have my leaving cert examination for English in an hour and a half - this is my last minute study haha

[@DrAidan]

Thank you for watching and I hope that the exam goes very well for you today.

[@radioprobably]

Same here

[@sophieblue6289]

Just watched the play tonight at the local theater. I couldn’t wait to get back home to watch this video afterwards.

[@nedmerrill5705]

Every dog will have his day.

[@hudsonbailey674]

Thank you, Dr Aidan.

[@DrAidan]

My pleasure. Glad you found it useful.

[@hudsonbailey674]

@@DrAidan Who today is the new Richard Burton? No one is irreplaceable? We but vape into the ether of mortality.

[@aloserfromapricotland44]

Can I ask where is the tragic flaw-hamartia in this play I thought indecisiveness but You said its is just a misconception

[@benedictionchinganda2327]

i'm so thankful for your video. It's really helpful

[@DrAidan]

Thank you. I’m pleased that you found it helpful and thank you for letting me know.

[@ammarsiddiqui8625]

U got an incredible accent sir i enjoy ur voice more then ur content

[@diaryofdaksha]

Needed more hamlet videos 😔😔😔

[@DrAidan]

Thank you for your comment. I will be making more Hamlet videos this year.

[@Zahraa__a]

Thx ♥️♥️♥️, dr Aidan what is the moral lesson you got from your reading to Hamlet ?

[@DrAidan]

I’m pleased to hear that you enjoyed the video. I think one of the interesting aspects of Hamlet concerns the morality of leadership. In this play Fortinbras is a model of Machiavelli’s ideal leader: bold and decisive. He is well-suited to the role he finds himself in. In comparison, Hamlet is less well-suited to this type of leadership. He is thoughtful and reflective. He spends all of Act Two trying to prove Claudius killed his father. By the time he becomes decisive - at the beginning of Act Three - he kills polonius by accident and this triggers and series of events that lead to more people dying. Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Laertes, Gertrude and finally Hamlet himself. So at least one of the issues it raises is whether being decisive initially - and taking the morally dubious decision to immediately kill Claudius - might have been “better” than delaying and causing more people to die. So it shines a light on the decisions leaders often have to deal with when in power.

[@karmathadrai6284]

Here u got a new subscriber Keep up the good work....sir

[@DrAidan]

Thank you: I hope you enjoy the videos.

[@VideoLanxer]

Thank you... Pls come up with more quotation

[@DrAidan]

Ram. Thank you for your comment. I'm very happy to do more quotation videos. What are you looking for ideally? More from Hamlet? Quotes from other plays? Or quotes linked thematically?

[@VideoLanxer]

Yes.. From Hamlet,King Lear, Macbeth, some lines from middlemarch by George Eliot... Those lines which generally come in exam.. If possible then please do... Thank you.

[@DrAidan]

Hi Ram. I am just working on a quotation video for Macbeth. I will let you know when I have uploaded it.

[@beckywade2582]

more videos on hamlet??

[@DrAidan]

Thanks for your suggestion. I will put those on the list.

[@DazzlingPotatoes]

Did your ever make the next video?😭

[@Frizzleman]

Great video extremely helpful

[@DrAidan]

Thank you for your kind words and I'm pleased you found it helpful.

[@VideoLanxer]

Thank you sir,, its really helpful... I want quotations from Macbeth, King Lear,... Most important quotations which come in competitive exam... Actually in exam questions are directly asked from quotation from Shakespeare's play. Sir if possible then please do it.

[@DrAidan]

I have now uploaded the 10 Most Important Quotations for Macbeth, here is the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZqQaqGwdtuEeac

[@dsandhumytube]

Thank you for the video. Just a request that please keep pauses when you speak. Read the quote first. It is difficult to read and understand as you speak important things continuously.

[@DrAidan]

Thanks for the feedback. That's very useful to know, I will make a point of pausing when I speak in my future videos.

[@Gomotsegan_gg]

its the night before the exam, am i cooked?

[@Hester-the-Hare]

Amazing

[@loszhor]

4:06 Yorick.... T_T

[@shahbazm.saleem8706]

Best explain hamlet

[@DrAidan]

Thank you. I'm glad you liked it.

[@misskija]

awesome video

[@DrAidan]

Thank you. I’m very pleased you like it.

[@YasminJ22]

Useful recap over quotes and what scenes they are from

[@DrAidan]

Thank you.

[@jbar19]

Thank u

[@DrAidan]

My pleasure. I’m pleased that it was useful. Thanks for letting me know.

[@KopunNgalye]

Anyone here for the QLD English External Exam? Lol

[@lee.rants.about.everything]

Me haha

[@KopunNgalye]

@@lee.rants.about.everything haha what school?

[@lee.rants.about.everything]

@@KopunNgalye Heights College in Rockhampton! And you??

[@curtcoller3632]

Just ten? Brevity is the soul of wit. George Carlin could have told you how to make one of ten commandments.

[@YLprime]

so he can't kill himself but he can kill his uncle.

[@mido3ontheway]

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

[@amitattri5800]

Namaste sir ..I'm from India..M A first year from IGNOU..my question is this that are these quotes asked in the exam?? Can I get good marks? I want to qualify Net exam..are these important??

[@lashaniagovender5050]

Thank you, this helps a lot👍

[@humptydumpty9406]

4:03 - I think you're incorrect.

[@DrAidan]

I've had a look at that section. I see Hamlet realising that Claudius is guilty in 3.2; he then sees Claudius praying in 3.3 and is about to murder him until he realises that by killing a man who might be asking God for forgiveness he will accidentally save him from damnation; then the following scene (3.4) he stabs through the arras saying "Is it the king" - so I would argue that he does try to kill the king immediately but is foiled because it is Polonius who gets stabbed. Is this what you meant? Or have I misunderstood your question? Let me know if you still have a question about this.

[@vietmbui81]

I thought his father just died within a month!

[@DrAidan]

Thanks for your comment.You're right, the death is fairly recent when the play opens. In Act 1 we hear from Hamlet that Old Hamlet has been 'two months dead' (1.2.138). The 'within a month' phrase seems to relate to the date his mother married his uncle after his father's death. He says: 'And yet within a month (Let me not think on't - Frailty, thy name is Woman), A little month, or e'er those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears. Why, she - O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourned longer - married with my uncle,' (1.2.145-149) By Act 3 Scene 2 we hear that he has now been dead 'twice two months' according to Ophelia (3.2.121). This is in response to Hamlet saying he's been dead for 'two hours' - that comment might be a sign of Hamlet's 'madness' (whether it's feigned or real madness is up for debate). The 'two hours' comment might also be interpreted as indicative of his feelings - it might feel as though his father's death is very, very current because of what is happening in the play. Hope that's useful.

[@vietmbui81]

@@DrAidan OMG that actually cleared thing up! Thank you so much for spending the time on the comment.!

[@DrAidan]

@@vietmbui81 No problem. I'm pleased that the comments were useful to you.

[@leontj1496]

My favourite quote from Hamlet is when he said "it's morbin time"

[@ThaNoyz]

2:35

[@jaysmith7613]

Hamlet doesn't say he doesn't commit suicide just because God forbids it. He decides to remain alive because of the fear of "what dreams may come."

[@deez7476]

He says that later bro...

[@jaysmith7613]

@@deez7476 Hamlet does many things that God forbids, such as not honoring his mother, committing murder, exacting revenge, arrogantly playing God, creating an ídol out of his philosophy. But his decision not to kill himself is ultimately determined by his fears, Bro.

[@GettinBack2Good]

@@jaysmith7613 well he was grieving the way he was talking you’re right his religion is just the surface logic but it’s his instinct for self preservation and pride that ultimately triumphs. He wasn’t truly hopeless; he was contemplating the nature of escape through self inflicted means; but truly he was a man who still had the dog in him.

[@justimani4]

​@jaysmith7613 umm no the guy above you is right.

[@jaysmith7613]

@justimani4 "Um," you might consider giving some actual proof to your argument instead of just a cocky negation of mine. The reason I'm right is that I did not exclude his initial argument that Hamlet decides not to commit suicide based on God's prohibition. I averred that it is not based "just" on that proscription. I gave a more inclusive reason, which is his fear "of what dreams may come." He agrees that the divine prohibition is a lesser important reason in his decision to live. But he's wrong in saying that Hamlet's truest motivations are "self-preservation and pride." Self-preservation is the minimal primal motivation that any animal employs; quite missing the point for the world's archetypal dramatic humanist. He is right, though, that pride is a strong motivation in his decision to live; however, he implies that this is the pride of self-confidence rather than Hamlet's real crime of the pride of hubris, which, of course, is also king Oedipus' fatal flaw. Merely choosing sides is not enough in a critical debate; its not so arbitrary as choosing a sports team.

[@jos2698]

I understand nothing 😂

[@roscianyt]

This is so wrong. People just read the play for yourselves.

[@rattlethecages]

How is it wrong? Provide examples.

[@sophieblue6289]

Just watched the play tonight at the local theater. I couldn’t wait to get back home to watch this video afterwards.

[@DrAidan]

I hope you enjoyed the play and the video.