Act 3 continued Flashcards
(scene 3) begins in middle of convesation with Cl. outwardly saying he
does not like H.
(scene 3) Cl. is sending Ros. and Guild. with Hamlet ot …, Ros. and Guild. say this is .. and … because King is sad, the whole country is sad, so they’re sad too and so they show a … to go
England; right; natural; willingness
(scene 3) Polonius tells Cl. that he’s going to go to the room to
spy
(scene 3) King Cl. 1st soliloquy: confesses to the murder → “my offense is …, it smells to heaven”: rank is how Hamlet describes …, that rot is a … not “….”
rank; Denmark; body; properly buried
(scene 3) primal eldest curse → reference to …: Cain and Abel was murder made out of …, is Cl.’s murder one of jealousy?
ghost’s precision in targeting Cl. maybe indicates that it’s …
Can and Abel; jealousy; seeking revenge
(scene 3) Cl. can’t … because of his guilt, he has lost connection with …, a problem because Denmark is …
pray; God; religious
(scene 3) Cl. wishes to … Hamlet → this is a confession of crimes done and crimes he wishes to be done
kill
(scene 3) “What if this cursed hand were thicker than itself with brother’s blood?” we have to temper Cl.’s desire to kill H. as he is
angry
(scene 3) Cl.’s idea on the purpose of prayer: “forestalled ere we come to fall, or pardoned being down?” - a way of … us from sinning and … us from sinning
stopping; forgiving
(scene 3) because Cl. can’t pray, he feels as though he can’t be … or …
forgiven; stopped
(scene 3) Cl. says he can never be … for murder because he still has everything that he committed murder for: …, …, … (for … or …?)
forgiven; crown; queen; ambition; power; H’s murder
(scene 3) Cl. compares justice system of earth vs heave: if you’re powerful enough on earth, you can ….; in heave, this is not possible, there is no surpassing …
shove your sins aside; God
(scene 3) in heaven you are compelled to give evidence for your … Cl. knows that he will be …, he will already experience … (so what does this imply about ghost’s nature)
faults; judged; justice
(scene 3) Cl. “O limed soul, that, struglling to be free, art more engaged!” → the more he thinks of his guilt, the more …
guilty he feels
(scene 3) Cl. tries to …
pray
(scene 3) h. enters and has his … raised to … (reminiscent of … scene)
sword; kill Cl. Pyrrhus and Priam
(scene 3) if you die while professing your faith, you’ll go to .. → … belief,
H. says he must think on killing Cl. now → “That would be scanned” → sending Cl. to heaven would …
heaven; Catholic; ruin his revenge plot
(scene 3) H. remembers that his father died with all his … on his ..; … sword → decides against killing CL. now
ghost would be …, as it just wants ..
sins; head; sheathes; mad; blood
(scene 3) H. says when Cl. is .., .., or in the … pleasure of his …, he’ll kill him→ Cl. needs to be …
drunk; screaming; incestuous; bed; actively sinning
(scene 3) Cl. rises and says he wasn’t … → it didn’t work, H. could’ve killed him
praying
(scene 4) now H. goes to talk to Ger.
there is a stage direction for Hamlet: “…” → are we in H.’s … or is he in a …
within; head; hallway
(scene 4) H. is being vicious with Ger. says he wishes she were not his …
mother
(scene 4) “I set you up a glass where you may see the inmost part of you” → is h. holding G. down right now?
G. is afraid and …
Pol screams and H. … through the …, not even knowing who he was
H. says “…’ although he knows it’s not
screams; kills him; arras; is it the king?
(scene 4) H. just killed someone and his first impulse was to … → sociopath? no …
lie about it; remorse
(scene 4) Freud’s Oedipus complex: based on Greek tragedy with Oedipus receiving prophecy that he will … father, … mother and have … by her
kill; marry; children
(scene 4) Oedipus complex: babies receive affection from mothers and become jealous when mothers how … to fathers, apparently babies want to kill fathers to … them
affection; replace
(scene 4) some people don’t outgrow jealousy of fathers. Oedipus is for … and … is for girls
men; elektra (in reference to fathers)
(scene 4) some believe that Hamlet has Oedipus complex and is … interested in Gertrude.→ His hatred for her after being with Cl. is a reflection of this
sexually
(scene 4) H. had a sword with a .. blade, to kill Pol, he had to have stabbed him …
thin; multiple times
(scene 4) Hamlet accuses Gertrude of killing …, Ger: “As kill a king?” → is she lying or is it shock
King H.
(scene 4) H. pulls pol’s body from behind curtain and insults him → “Take thy fortune. Thou findst to be too busy is some danger” → says Pol. shouldn’t have been
standing there
(scene 4) even though he just killed POlonius, H. still wants to hurt Gertrude. Will … her heart if she still has one, Ger. is thoroughly … and is being … (is she lying?)
wring out; confused; defensive
(scene 4) maybe Gertrude believes that his rage is not
proportional to her actions
(scene 4) Ger. would be wearing two “….” → one for … and one for …; H. somehow obtained both
pictures of little; King H.; King Cl.
(scene 4) H. presents both pics of little to Ger. Decribes King H. in every way as a .. (calls him Hyperion again) and compares him to Cl. (whom he calls a …)
god; mildewed ear
(scene 4) physiognomy → literary device in which … features mirror …
exterior features; internal ones
(scene 4) H. asks what is it inside of her that makes her unable to see the d… between the two men?
difference
(scene 4) Ger. says what H. wanted to hear: “O Hamlet, speak no more! Thou turn’st my eyes into my very soul”
Ger. sees herself, and she is …
asks H. .. times to stop talking, and … apears
rotten; 3; ghost
(scene 4) Ghost said for hamlet to leave Gertrude …
H. asks for help from … when ghost appears. Gertrude calls him … → Hamlet is the only one who can … the ghost in this scene.
Hamlet worries he is taking too long to ..
alone; heaven; mad; see; kill Cl.
(scene 4) ghost is upset H. hasn’t killed Cl. yet, says imagination occurs in the … → worried that Ger.’s imagination is …
weakest of bodies; running wild
(scene 4) H. asks Ger: “How is it with you, lady?” Ger is …, asks Hamlet what’s wrong.
frazzled
(scene 4) If ghost is really there, he is keenly aware of the actions of the …
living
(scene 4) H. tells ghost not to …→ he’s ashamed because he plunged Denmark further into … and he didn’t do the … he had
look at him; chaos; one job
(scene 4) The other and the look:
- Jean-Paul Sart
- being made into who you are through …, you have to take responsibility of …
- results in hinting suspicion that someone can …
eye contact; what you are; read your thoughts
(scene 4) Ger. asks what H. is talking to. H. asks “Do you see nothing there?” Ger. responds: “nothing at all; yet all that is I see.”
- Ger. is deeply …, sees everything but is not in the position to be able to …
aware; say anything
(scene 4) H. describes ghost: in his …→ …, … he wore when he was … (not …)
habit; clothing; clothes; alive; armor
(scene 4) portal:
door
(scene 4) this ghost is much …, dressed differently (more comfortable), more …
different; merciful
(scene 4) Ger. calls H. …, H. says that he is not → put me to the test and I will prove I am not crazy. H. tells Ger. not to comfort herself by claiming he is … Don’t use my craziness as an excuse for ..
crazy; crazy; your behavior
(scene 4) H. tells Ger. to confess her … : there’s so much wrong in the world and we need someone to be a voice of … → Ger. says that he has broken her heart in 2 –> H. tells her to …. the bad 1/2
wrongdoings; conscience; throw away
(scene 4) H. tells Ger. not tell Cl. that he is “…” → …, Ger. agrees to this and promises not to be … with Cl.
mad in craft; pretending to be crazy; intimate
(scene 4) H. somehow knows that he’s going to England; → is he just … Gertrude: he figured England would be the most … place for him to be sent.
H. also knows somehow that Ros. and Guild are taking him there
testing; logical;
(scene 4) H: “Let it work,
For ’tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petard; and ’t shall go hard
But I will delve one yard below their mines
And blow them at the moon.”
“hoist with his own petard” → fall victim to …
mining metaphor: I’m gonna make their own plans …
your own trap; fall on their heads
(scene 4) H. again insults Polonius: “This counselor
Is now most still, most secret, and most grave,
Who was in life a foolish prating knave” → he leaves with the …
dead body
(scene 4) “cruel only to be …”
kind
(scene 4) Hamlet just titled himself Denmark’s …. and …
scourge; minister
(scene 4) scourge and minister: crucial moment in …
scourge: … with … at end
minister ….
means that H. must be Denmark’s … and …
character development; whip; ball; pastor; punishment; salvation
(scene 4) everyone he has wronged, it was all for
the greater good
(scene 4) Hamlet is not seeing his own
reflection
