 | Richard G. Geldard - 2000 - 180 pages
...protest also against the view that chaos rules and that cosmos is an illusion. As Hamlet protested, What is a man, If his chief good and market of his...capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. (IV. iv, 33-40) It may be argued, of course, that our "large discourse" is an evolutionary development... | |
 | James S. Malek - 2001 - 484 pages
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 | R. A. Foakes - 2000 - 332 pages
...necessary use of a God-given capacity, as the commitment that makes us human: What is a man, If the chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep...not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. (4.4.34-40) He goes on to justify Fortinbras, and take him as an example, with only the twisted... | |
 | Germaine Greer - 2000 - 122 pages
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 | Lawrence Schoen - 2001 - 240 pages
...Wilt please you go, my lord? I'll be with you straight. Go a little before. [Exeunt all except HAMLET] How all occasions do inform against me. And spur my...Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, — A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom 129 vortlbraS 'eH,... | |
 | Haim Gordon - 2001 - 196 pages
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 | Jan H. Blits - 2001 - 420 pages
...man: What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? And he answers: A beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large...capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. (4.4.33-39) To be a man means not only to be alive, but to have "such large discourse" as to be able... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 2001 - 426 pages
...artist. Hamlet certainly regards Fortinbras' actions as possibly true expressions of God's purpose: Sure, He that made us with such large discourse, Looking...capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd . . . (iv. iv. 36) When Hamlet acknowledges that 'indtements of my reason and my blood' impel him to... | |
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How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not... 
