Quotes On Blood And Guildenstern In Shakespeare's Play '
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Quotes
Act I
Quotation From the Text
Page #
Response
Player: I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I can't do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory—they're all blood, you see.
13
Blood is a conflict, blood is something happening. Without blood you do not have a story.
Guil: There were always questions. To exchange one set for another is no great matter.
16
The lack of memory makes the person’s reality. Without memory they cannot connect to the past.
Player: We have no control. Tonight we play to the court. Or the night after. Or to the tavern. Or not.
9
This is a personal conflict to maintain a separation …show more content…
Shakespeare may be telling the audience that there is no point in putting on a play without and audience. Guil: We have been left so much to our own devices – after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.
32
Guil needs to be around other people to let others take control for him. He could be lonely or just like others making decisions for him.
Ros: We're overawed, that's our trouble. When it comes to the point we succumb to their personality
37
Ros is not able to be himself when Hamlet approaches him. He seems to be afraid of Hamlet, but why when Hamlet is a friend.
Guil: Autumnal – nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day…Brown is creeping up on us, take my word for it…Russets and tangerine shades of old gold flushing the very outside edge of the senses.
47
The setting is changing in the play. Autumn shows and end of life and we head toward winter. Death is coming closer.
Act
Act I
Quotation From the Text
Page #
Response
Player: I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I can't do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory—they're all blood, you see.
13
Blood is a conflict, blood is something happening. Without blood you do not have a story.
Guil: There were always questions. To exchange one set for another is no great matter.
16
The lack of memory makes the person’s reality. Without memory they cannot connect to the past.
Player: We have no control. Tonight we play to the court. Or the night after. Or to the tavern. Or not.
9
This is a personal conflict to maintain a separation …show more content…
Shakespeare may be telling the audience that there is no point in putting on a play without and audience. Guil: We have been left so much to our own devices – after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.
32
Guil needs to be around other people to let others take control for him. He could be lonely or just like others making decisions for him.
Ros: We're overawed, that's our trouble. When it comes to the point we succumb to their personality
37
Ros is not able to be himself when Hamlet approaches him. He seems to be afraid of Hamlet, but why when Hamlet is a friend.
Guil: Autumnal – nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day…Brown is creeping up on us, take my word for it…Russets and tangerine shades of old gold flushing the very outside edge of the senses.
47
The setting is changing in the play. Autumn shows and end of life and we head toward winter. Death is coming closer.
Act