Examples of personification in Hamlet?

Question

I need a few for a group presentation..my friends already took the good ones below:


So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

and

But look, the morn in russet mantle clad/ Walks o’er the dew of yon high eastward hill.

I have a few other ones but they are very short (3-5) words, so i need something that is as long as the ones listed above.

Answer 1

1.
None, my lord, but the world's grown honest.
OR
2.
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

Context:
1.
The question of honesty recurs repeatedly in the play. For example, in the encounter between Hamlet and Polonius:

Hamlet Then I would you were so honest a man.
Polonius Honest, my lord?
Hamlet Ay, sir. To be honest, as this world goes, is to be
one man picked out of ten thousand.
Polonius That's very true, my lord.
(2.2.176-80)

The question of honesty appears again in Hamlet's dialogue with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern:

Hamlet What news?
Rosencrantz None, my lord, but the world's grown honest.
Hamlet Then is doomsday near.
(2.2.236-38)
The lack of honesty that Shakespeare is concerned with is our lack of honesty in accepting reality and, in particular, in facing up to our own mortality.
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Context:
2.
Polonius represents the pseudo-intellect that steadfastly avoids the inevitable by hiding behind a dense wall of intellectual arguments and analyses, none of which addresses the profound issues of life and death. This is evident in the list of precepts he delivers to Laertes:

Polonius: Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar;
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel,
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd courage. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear't that th'opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habits as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy,
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
(1.3.59-77)
Every bit of advice in this list is relevant only for mundane matters and does not even begin to address the real issues of life. The precepts are petty in nature.


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Examples of personification in Hamlet?
I need a few for a group presentation..my friends already took the good ones below:


So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

and

But look, the morn in russet mantle clad/ Walks o’er the dew of yon high eastward hill.

I have a few other ones but...

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