This presentation concentrates on lines which use the word "duty" expressly, however, implications of "duty" are included where they are unmistakable.  Subtle implications of duty may exist, and do, but are not included here.

This presentation concentrates on lines which use the word "duty" expressly, however, implications of "duty" are included where they are unmistakable.  Subtle implications of duty may exist, and do, but are not included here.

=====Scene 1=====

====Scene 1====

[[Scene 1#000-SD]]  ''(Francisco and Bernardo enter)'' - the initial entry of the play presents two military sentinels ''on duty.''

[[Scene 1#000-SD]]  ''(Francisco and Bernardo enter)'' - the initial entry of the play presents two military sentinels ''on duty.''

[[Scene 1#184]]  ''As needful in our loves, fitting our duty?'' - the decision to tell Hamlet about the Ghost is explicitly motivated by love and ''duty.''

[[Scene 1#184]]  ''As needful in our loves, fitting our duty?'' - the decision to tell Hamlet about the Ghost is explicitly motivated by love and ''duty.''

=====Scene 2=====

====Scene 2====

[[Scene 2#039]]  ''Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty.'' - an explicit assignment of ''duty'' to Cornelius and Voltemand.

[[Scene 2#039]]  ''Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty.'' - an explicit assignment of ''duty'' to Cornelius and Voltemand.

[[Scene 2#040]]  Cornelius and Voltemand both: ''In that, and all things, will we show our duty.'' - their explicit acknowledgment of ''duty.''

[[Scene 2#040]]  Cornelius and Voltemand both: ''In that, and all things, will we show our duty.'' - their explicit acknowledgment of ''duty.''

=====Scene 3=====

[[Scene 2#054]]  ''To show my duty in your coronation'' - Laertes expressly states ''duty'' as why he was there for the coronation.

=====Scene 4=====

[[Scene 2#055]]  ''Yet now I must confess, that duty done'' - explicit again, that Laertes has done his ''duty.''

=====Scene 5=====

[[Scene 2#090]]  ''To give these mourning duties to your father'' - Claudius casts it as ''duty'' that Hamlet mourns his father's death.

=====Scene 6=====

[[Scene 2#230]]  ''And we did think it writ down in our duty'' - An express statement of ''duty'' as why they're telling Hamlet about the Ghost.

=====Scene 7=====

[[Scene 2#269]]  ''(All): Our duty to your honor.'' - Horatio, Marcellus and Bernardo all express ''duty'' to Hamlet.