Act 1 Quotes Flashcards
Act 1 Scene 1
Horatio on Denmark and ghost’s appearance
This bodes some strange eruption to our state
Act 1 Scene 1
Horatio explaining the duel between Old Hamlet and Old Norway ended in Old Norway’s death and seceding some land to Denmark that Young Fortinbras is trying to reclaim
Skirts of Norway…Sharked up a list of lawless resolutes…to recover of us, by strong hand
Act 1 Scene 1
Horatio after seeing the ghost that bears likeness to Old Hamlet
The graves stood tenantless
Dews of blood
Act 1 Scene 2
King Claudius is holding court – talks about new marriage plus death of brother
Defeated joy
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage
Act 1 Scene 2
King Claudius is holding court – talks about new marriage plus death of brother (effect on Denmark)
Our state to be disjoint and out of frame
Act 1 Scene 2
King Claudius is holding court – regarding Young Fortinbras’ attempts to reclaim Norways land
He hath not failed to pester us with message
Act 1 Scene 2
Claudius on Hamlet’s grief
Obsequious sorrow
Tis unmanly grief
Tis a fault to heaven, a fault against the dead
Act 1 Scene 2
Hamlet in his first soliloquy – soul is in tumult
O that this too too sullied flesh would melt thaw and resolve itself into a dew
Act 1 Scene 2
Hamlet in his first soliloquy - perceives that bad is overtaking good in the world
Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed
Things rank and gross in nature
Act 1 Scene 2
Hamlet in his first soliloquy – compares his father and Claudius (they are vastly different)
Hyperion to a satyr
Act 1 Scene 2
Hamlet in his first soliloquy – blames his mother for being weak and not being loyal to his father, criticizes her short mourning period and hasty remarriage
Frailty, thy name is women
Like Niobe, all tears
O, most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
Act 1 Scene 2
Horatio to Hamlet on father’s death at having returned to Elsinore from Wittenberg
He was a goodly king
Act 1 Scene 2
Hamlet on the prospect of what he might discover from his father’s spirit/ghost
Foul deeds will rise though all the earth overwhelm them to mens eyes
Act 1 Scene 3
Before departing for Paris, Laertes gives Ophelia some advice regarding her relationship with Hamlet
The trifling of his favour, hold it in fashion and a toy in blood a violet in the youth of primy nature
Act 1 Scene 3
Before departing for Paris, Laertes telling Ophelia of Hamlet’s duties to his kingdom
On his choice depends the safety and health of this whole state
Act 1 Scene 3
Before departing for Paris, Laertes warning Ophelia away from Hamlet
If with too credent ear you list his songs…your chaste treasure open
Virtue itself escapes not calumnious strokes The canker galls the infants of spring
Act 1 Scene 3
Polonius has been surveilling Ophelia and accuses her of entertaining Hamlet
Your audience been most free and bounteous
Act 1 Scene 3
When Ophelia tells her father of Hamlets love for her, Polonius responds:
You speak like a green girl, unsifted in such perilous circumstance
Act 1 Scene 3
When Ophelia reiterates that Hamlet loves her, Polonius responds:
Springes to catch woodcocks
Act 1 Scene 3
Polonius telling Ophelia that, as a woman, she can’t afford to be promiscuous/ do as she like
And with a larger tether may he walk than may be given you
Act 1 Scene 4
When Hamlet sees the ghost for the first time and wonders why he is not buried
Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, have burst their cerements
Act 1 Scene 4
Seeing the ghost for the first time Hamlet decides to follow it, telling Horatio:
I do not set my life in a pin’s fee
Act 1 Scene 4
When Hamlet decides to follow the ghost, Horatio tries to warn him against it
Might deprive your sovereignty of reason
Act 1 Scene 4
In response to Horatio and Marcellus’ warnings not to follow the ghost, Hamlet says it is fate/ destiny
My fate cries out and makes each petty artery in this body as hardy as the Nemean lions nerve
Act 1 Scene 4
After Hamlet follows the ghost, Marcellus comments on the bad omen that is the ghosts appearance and the corruption that is rife in Denmark
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
Act 1 Scene 5
Hamlets first sighting of the ghost, comments on his filial duty to listen to its tale
Speak, I am bound to hear
Act 1 Scene 5
The ghost commanding Hamlet to revenge him and his murder
Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder
Act 1 Scene 5
The ghost telling Hamlet the tale of his murder by Claudius
The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown
Act 1 Scene 5
While telling the story of his murder to Hamlet, the ghost implies Gertrude’s promiscuity
Seeming virtuous queen
Act 1 Scene 5
The ghost tells Hamlet not to harm Gertrude and instead let her own guilt catch up with her
To prick and sting her
Act 1 Scene 5
After hearing the story of his father’s murder, in his second soliloquy, Hamlet swears that nothing shall occupy his thoughts save revenge (his father’s task)
Thy commandment alone shall live…unmixed with baser matter
Act 1 Scene 5
After hearing the story of his father’s murder, in Hamlet’s second soliloquy, he comments on the deceit prevalent in Denmark
That one may smile and smile and be a villain
Act 1 Scene 5
After hearing the story of his father’s murder, Hamlet tells Horatio his plan to pretend to be mad
To put an antic disposition on
Act 1 Scene 5
After seeing the ghost and being tasked with revenging his father’s murder, Hamlet says:
The time is out of joint. O cursed spite
