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24 Quotes Flashcards

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1
Q

Hamlet
Family
To Gertrude
‘I shall…

A

‘I shall I’m my best obey you madam’

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Hamlet
Spying
‘Let the doors…’

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‘Let the doors shut upon him, that he may play the fool nowhere but in’s own house farewell’

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Hamlet
Spying
Too Polonius
‘Thou wretched, …’

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‘Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell’

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Hamlet
Sexuality
To Gertrude
‘Go not…’

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‘Go not to mine uncles bed’

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Hamlet
Sexuality
To ophelia

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‘do you think I meant country manners?’

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6
Q

Marcellus
Relationships individuals
‘Something is…’

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‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’

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Polonius
Acting and theatre
‘The best actors in the…’

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‘The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy,history ‘

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Polonius
Relationship and individuals
Advice to leatres
‘To thine own self…’

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‘To thine own self be true […] thou canst not then be false to any man’

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Hamlet
Gender
To ophelia
‘Wise men…’

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‘Wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them’

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Claudius
Sin and salvation
‘Oh my offence…’

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‘Oh my offence is rank, it smells to heaven’

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Claudius
Sin and salvation
‘What form of prayer…’

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‘What form of prayer can serve my turn? ‘Forgive me my foul murder’ ? ‘

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Hamlet said to horatio
Existence and morality
‘There are more things in…’

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‘There are more things in heaven and earth, horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy’

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Claudius
Sin and salvation
Responsibility and freedom
‘O limed soul…’

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‘O limed soul that, struggling to be free’

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Ghost
Responsibility and freedom
Said to hamlet
‘This visitation is but…’

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‘This visitation is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose’

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Polonius
Madness and melancholia
Said to hamlet
‘Though this be…’

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‘Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t’

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Hamlet
Gender
Said about Gertrude in his first solique
‘Frailty…’

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‘Frailty thy name is woman’

17
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Ghost 
Said to hamlet 
Revenge 
Existence and morality 
'Revenge his...'
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‘Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder’

18
Q

Gertrude
Acting and theatre
Talking to hamlet about the play
‘The lady…’

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‘The lady doth protest too much me thinks’

19
Q

Ghost
Said to hamlet
Responsibility and freedom
Does not mean himself he means what he had told hamlet

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‘Remember me’

20
Q

Polonius
Said to leatres
Relationship and individuals
‘Listen to…’

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‘Listen to many speak to a few’

21
Q

Bernardo
Said near the very beginning of scene 1
Shows significance of the person
Relationship and individuals

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‘Long live the king’

22
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Hamlet 
Said to horatio 
Before the play starts 
Confinement and survailance 
'Observe...'
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‘Observe mine uncle’

23
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Hamlet
Said about Claudius
Relationship and individuals
‘Smiling…’

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‘Smiling damned villain’

24
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Hamlet
Said about Polonius ish spying
Confinement and survailance
‘(Draws)…’

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‘(Draws) how now, a rat?’

25
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Polonius
Spying
‘I’ll convey…

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‘I’ll convey myself to hear the process’

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