My absolute favorite quote so far has been, "Oh Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain." This quote probably is not one that most people would choose, but as soon as I heard it, I wrote it down in my notebook because it immediately caught my attention. Although this line seems to be so simple, I feel like it has so much power behind it. The dialect in the play "Hamlet" fascinates me. Although many lines of the play are difficult to understand, in other lines such as this one, the words flow beautifully. Gertrude recited this line when Hamlet confronts her about Claudius. Instead of simply saying, "Hamlet, you broke my heart in two", her fancy assortment of words makes this line even more powerful and meaningful. This was also the first line Gertrude recited after Hamlet spoke "daggers but used none" and it really demonstrates the effect Hamlets words had on Gertrude.
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