Sunday, November 3, 2013

Oh my offence is rank

In English we have to come up with a speech to memorize out if the book Hamlet. I chose the saliliquy by King Claudius when his is begging for forgiveness for his horrible sin that he has committed. 

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven. It hath the primal eldest curs upon't, A brothers murder. Pray can I not, though inclination be as sharp as will; my stronger guilt deafeats my strong intent, and, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, and both neglect. What if this cursed hand were thicker than itself with brothers blood, is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens to wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy but I confront the visage of offence? And what's in prayer but this twofold force, to be forstalled ere we come to fall, or pardon'd being down? Then I'll look up. My fault is past. But O, what form of prayer can serve my turn? ' Forgive me my foul murder?' That cannot be, since I an still posses'd of those effects for which I did the murder-my crown, my own ambition and my queen. May one be pardon'd and retain the offence? In the corrupt currents of this world offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, and oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself buys out the law. But 'tis not so above: there is no shuffling, there the action lies in his nature, and we ourselves compell'd even to teeth and forehead of our faults to give in evidence. What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not? Yet what can it when one can not repent? O wretched state, O bosom black as death, O lined soul, that struggling to be free atrocities more engaged! Help, angles! Make assay. Bow, stubborn knees,and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All may be well. 

This speech really resonates with me. I don no know exactly why but it mostly likly has to do with my faith and how I sometime I feel like this( well not to that extent anyways). But I do feel like sometimes my sins are so great that sometimes God can't forgive all I have done. In the end though I know he can so even though at the end of this speech King Claudius says it doesn't matter that nothing will change his heart I know tht God will forgive me. So when I proform this in front of the class I think I will be doing this like in actually trying to get my sins taken away. 
This won't just be an act it will be the real thing because it is something I struggle with all the time. 

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