Act 3 Flashcards
(scene 1) act starts in middle of conversation about why Hamlet has been ….: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s ….
acting crazy; official report
(scene 1) Cl. calls Hamlet’s insanity
dangerous lunacy
(scene 1) Rosencrantz and Guild don’t have
information
(scene 1) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern inform Claudius and Gertrude that …. came and Hamlet was …., Cl. and G. say for them to keep Hamlet …
actors; happy; happy
(scene 1) Claudius asks Gertrude to leave because now Claudius and Polonius will ….
listen in on Ophelia and Hamlet’s conversation
(scene 1) Cl. contradictory again: “….”, “….”
lawful espials; seeing unseen
(scene 1) in spying, pol. and cl. are testing theory of …
unrequited love
(scene 1) Gertrude agrees to Ophelia and H. spying plan and says that she hopes that …, but she knows better
Ophelia is the problem
(scene 1) Ophelia is participating in the
espionage
(scene 1) Pol. hands Ophelia either a … or … because it will then make sense that she is …→ certain hours of … for …
prayer book; Bible; alone; devotion; prayer
(scene 1) Pol: “We are oft to blame in this ‘Tis too much proved, that with devotion’s visage and pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself” → we are doing something …, but we’re pretending it’’s …
Polonius admits … here
evil; good; guilt
(scene 1) Aside from Claudius (first one, right after Polonius admits guilt): admits what Polonius said is ….
wound to his … → pang of …, by what Polonius says (“smart a lash” → …)
true; conscience; guilt; whip
(scene 1) Cl: “The harlot’s cheek beautied with plast’ring art Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it
Than is my deed to my most painted word”→ makeup a prostitute uses does not cover
how ugly her profession is
(scene 1) Cl: “O heavy burden!” → is this a …?
private confession
(scene 1) Hamlet enters (this is NOT a soliloquy because he is not …)→ “To be or not to be”
alone
(scene 1) to be: to have a …, …, to be … (successful, legacy, something to …)
to be means much more than merely …
purpose; identity; something; someone; existing
(scene 1) not to be: not being any of the
things that you can be
(scene 1) to be …. or not to be …
infinity; infinity
(scene 1) “that is the question” → this is the essential question of ….,
wittenberg students had debates and the sides would say “…”, this is how wittenberg students would …
living; that is the question; graduate
(scene 1) Hamlet is impacting the people
behind the curtain
(scene 1) Hamlet now shows both sides of question:
to be is to … (this is part of all faiths), to be anything is accompanied with … → “… and ….”
suffer; pain; slings; arrows
(scene 1) at any moment you can …., you can incite war against your … and … by simply … the things that cause them
not be; troubles; end thing; not doing
(scene 1) valuable =
difficult
(scene 1) to not be → totally resign yourself to …
nothing
(scene 1) unconsciousness is …. state (e.g. sleep)
death or sleep → our … will be no more, so we end ….
happiest; consciousness; heartache
(scene 1) flesh = heir to …/…, unconsciousness …
pain; sorrow; ends this
(scene 1) “tis a consummation/ devoutly to be wished” → we want … to consume us
unconsciousness
(scene 1) “ay, there’s the rub” → unconsciousness marred through …
dreams
(scene 1) different kind of dream that comes from death → …. - … after “sleep” of death
afterlife; consciousness
(scene 1) the only thing that keeps us being is the fear of
not being
(scene 1) things that suck about being a person: you will grow ... → body will be ... people will ... and ... you people will be .../... in your presence and their success will ... you ... love loving ... people knowing people you love will ... having an annoying ... .... necessary laws .... but you could just as easily not be
old; horrible; wrong; oppose; proud; arrogant; bother; unrequited; more than one; die; boss; patience; restricting
(scene 1) bare bodkin:
unsheathed dagger
(scene 1) “quietus make with a bare bodkin” → you could … and end it all
kill yourself
(scene 1) dread of something after death: death → “undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns” - we don’t know what happens …
but death also refers to death of …
death; dreams;
(scene 1) we are all cowards because we can …. We are stopped from doing things because of: …., the very thing that makes us decide to do things becomes …., consciousness makes us all …, we … goals
think; self-doubt; sick; cowards; procrastinate
(scene 1) …. is what Hamlet is discussing in “to be or not to be” → not …
death in life; suicide
(scene 1) all great things we do is stopped when we
think
(scene 1) hamlet sees Ophelia walking toward him and says he needs to be quiet now
But “….” is not part of the stage directions → Ophelia was …., along with … and ….
Ophelia enters; there the whole time; Claudius; Polonius
(scene 1) For these 3 people to continue hurting Hamlet, after hearing the speech, they have to … into …
cross a line; evil
(scene 1) 1st time Hamlet and Ophelia see each other since …
pants around ankle deal
(scene 1) this is a …, and Ophelia is giving Hamlet his ….
breakup; things back
(scene 1) Hamlet says no and says he never …., not accepting it, but implies that ….
gave those things; another person give it to her
(scene 1) Ophelia says you know right well you deed, and you said … when you gave them, but you became a …
sweet words; jerk
(scene 1) Hamlet laughs: “Are you honest” → honest means …, …
chaste; loyal
(scene 1) “Are you fair?” fair can mean … OR …
light-skinned; beautiful
(scene 1) If you’re both honest and fair then you wouldn’t e
dressing as you are right now
(scene 1) Ophelia is doing all of this, knowingly, in front of
an audience
(scene 1) Ophelia says: isn’t it good that chastity and beauty are in
conversation
(scene 1) H: beauty can change someone into a … faster than chastity can make someone … → used to be a … until you made it true
whore; beautiful; paradox
(scene 1) H: “I did love you once” →
not anymore
(scene 1) Now Hamlet says he didn’t love her: Hamlet told her he was gonna do this in the … “doubt truth to be a liar…”
Ophelia clearly didn’t …
letter; get the message
(scene 1) Hamlet says to Ophelia: “Get thee to a ….”
nunnery
(scene 1) nunnery: …, Elizabethan slang for a …, place you could go as … (…)
convent; brothel; safe-house; convent
(scene 1) Hamlet lists things wrong with him: …, …, …., wants to do ….
proud; revengeful; ambitious; many bad things
(scene 1) Hamlet says “we are arrant knaves all” knaves →
fools
(scene 1) H: “believe none of us” → repeating idea from …, trying to put …
poem; letter in action
(scene 1) Hamlet has one question for Ophelia: “Where’s your …?” Hamlet knows
father
(scene 1) Ophelia lies and says he’s …., Hamlet says let the doors be closed on him so that he can only be a fool in his own home
Ophelia cries out for …
at home; help
(scene 1) dowry: old marriage tradition, having a woman in your house is a …, so you should “sweeten the deal” by …
burden; paying
(scene 1) chaste:
pure
(scene 1) H. says he’ll give her a plague as a dowry: I hope you and your husband don’t have a …, no part of your marriage to …
romantic life; delight in
(scene 1) calumny: smoke that arises when you …., … effect. → Hamlet will have … after breakup
snuff out candle; lingering effect; lingering effect
(scene 1) Hamlet accuses Ophelia for his insanity
Hamlet told her to go to a nunnery about … times, he’s warning her to .., trying to communicate that he’s not actually … or …
3; leave; angry; hateful
(scene 1) Hamlet calls Ophelia
two-faced