a need a help

[jerusalem lady]

hii all , ws uP
I need ur assistance, 2 d0 my assignmeNt
what is "quintessence of dust"
,,h0w and where exactly did shakespear use it ?

[Big brotheR]

What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so." --From Hamlet (II, ii, 115-117)

Hamlet's murderous uncle the King has called for the prince's university friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, seeking their opinion on the source of Hamlet's depression and madness. In this scene in which the king, the friends, Hamlet, Polonius and various ambassadors go in and out, Hamlet addresses Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, forcing them to admit that they have not come out of pure friendship and concern, but because they were summoned. He describes his own recent mood in the classical terms of true depression: "I have lost all my mirth….the earth….seems…..sterile". He bounces back and forth between admiration at the nobility and beauty of man and his own disillusionment at how evil man can be. After uttering the words above he calls man "a quintessence of dust", revealing the true depth of his depression and foreshadowing his suicidal feelings.

[Big brotheR]

Shakespeare's Hamlet spoke masterfully and ****phorically when he said of the human being: "What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!" And then, at the climax of his panegyric, framed him in a most exquisite paradox as the "quintessence of dust."[1]

"Quintessence of dust" embraces the most disparate poles of that creature whom Medieval philosophers called "homo duplex" and Genesis described as both made in the image of God and compounded of dust. Man is a mixture of starlight and earthdust. His being is a synthesis of the uncreated and the created. He is eternal like the stars and as ephemeral as dust. He bears within himself a tension that establishes both his drama and his destiny.

[Big brotheR]

the quintessence of something (http://www.iopal.net/) formal a perfect example of something: John is the quintessence of good manners.

[jerusalem lady]

B4 I read
tHx al0t
U surprised me
three P0sts!!!
I feel tht I'll get amaziNg benefits

[jerusalem lady]

tHx again

I've an0ther questi0n

[ @ the eNd 0f the play , Hamket asks his friend t0 tell his st0ry ]

wh0m ? and why , especially that the st0ry is already kn0wn!!


pLz I need the answer