What are some examples of motifs found in Act I of Hamlet?

The wheel motif begins in Act I with Hamlet's "whirling words," although Shakespeare doesn't alert the audience to look for a wheel motif until Act 5 when Hamlet says "here's fine revolution, an we had the trick to see't." Thus the audience has to see the play again (many, many times) to acquire the "trick" to see the wheels turning.

http://www.thyorisons.com/#Revolution - Fine Revolution

Hamlet

Why, e'en so: and now my Lady Worm's; chapless, and knocked about the mazzard with a sexton's spade: here's FINE REVOLUTION, an we had the trick to see't.

Within its immediate context this is a rather shallow pun about the turning (revolution) of the fine dirt in a grave, which is also the final revolution of the wheel of fortune. But it becomes more exciting when we take it as a challenge to unearth the subtle motif of wheel puns spun throughout the play.

Hamlet:

here's ne'er a VILLAIN DWELLING in all Denmark

But he's an arrant kNAVE

Horatio:

There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave

To tell us this.

Hamlet:

Why, right, YOU ARE I' TH' RIGHT,

And so without more CIRCUMstance at all

I hold it fit that we shake hands and part,

You as your business and desires shall point you.

For every man has business and desire,

Such as it is - and for MINE OWN POOR PORT,

Look you, I'll go PRAY.

Horatio:

These are but wild and WHIRLING words, my lord.

These are indeed "whirling words." Shakespeare often wrote of madness but he only used the word "whirling" one other time, and then it didn't refer to madness: "To calm this tempest whirling in the court" (Titus Andronicus,IV,2). He used "whirling" here to alert us to the "fine revolution" of Hamlet's words.

In addition to the usual meaning of "bad guy," "VILLAIN" means a person of low birth, as in "I am no VILLAIN; I am the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys." (As You Like It, I,1) A villain would not live in a palace - he would typically dwell in a village or hamlet. Thus a "VILLAIN DWELLING" is a Hamlet. (Ever wonder why Shakespeare never punned on Hamlet/hamlet? Here's the missing pun.) So Hamlet and his father (Hamlet Sr) were kNAVES or naves. One definition of "nave" is the NAVE OF A CHURCH. This definition is implicitly used when Hamlet says "and for mine own poor part, Look you, I'll go PRAY." "Nave" can also be the NAVE (hub) of a WHEEL, as in the speech that Hamlet requested from the First Player:

Out, out, thou STRUMPET FORTUNE! All you gods,

In general synod, take away her power;

Brake all the spokes and fellies from her WHEEL,

And bowl the ROUND NAVE DOWN the hill of heaven,

As low as to the fiends.

Kings are bound by FORTUNE (fate, birth) to determine the fates of their subjects:

Rosencrantz:

The cease of majesty

Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw

What's near it with it. It is a massy WHEEL,

Fixed on the summit of the highest mount,

To whose huge SPOKEs ten thousand lesser things

Are mortic'd and adjoin'd; which when it FALLS,

Each small annexment, petty consequence,

Attends the boist'rous ruin. Never alone

Did the KING sigh, but with a general groan.

Bernardo:

It would be SPOKE to.

[The ghost wants more SPOKES on his NAVE as he rolls down to hell]

Putting all this together, we see Hamlet cryptically likening himself (as a prince and potential king) to the NAVE of a WHEEL. His friends are his spokes, which are perpendicular (IN THE RIGHT) to the nave. Before his wheel of fortune (his fate) turns anymore (without more CIRCUMstance), he wants to break all the spokes from her wheel so that they won't be carried down the hill of heaven with him. (In the original staging, it is likely that Hamlet spun around as he shook hands with Horatio and flung him outward.) He wants to sigh alone (in contrast to Laertes, who brought along a mob when he confronted the king). However, Hamlet is not only the nave of a wheel; he is also the NAVE of a CHURCH (where he'll go PRAY). He cannot escape death, but he will avoid damnation.

There are more instances of the wheel motif, but this margin allotted me by Yahoo Answers is too small to contain it - it will "scarcely fit in this box." Please see the following link:

http://www.thyorisons.com/#Wheel_Becomes - How the Wheel Becomes It

I'll just quote part of it here:

1st Player

Out, out, thou STRUMPET FORTUNE! All you gods,

In general synod, take away her power;

Brake all the spokes and fellies from her WHEELl,

And bowl the ROUND NAVE DOWN the hill of heaven,

As low as to the fiends.

...

Polonius:

This is too long.

Hamlet

It shall to the barber's, with your BEARD.

Ophelia:

They bore him BAREFACED on the bier

Hamlet Motifs

There's a ton of stuff going on there, please be more specific!