Act 3 Scene 2 Flashcards
Give me that man that is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him in my heart’s core, ay, in my heart of heart
Speaker: Hamlet
Context: He is speaking to Horatio before the play/his plan is about to begin. He is confiding in Horatio his plan to catch the conscience of the King.
Importance:
-Horatio is such a good friend. He is the only one who is not trying to gain something from Hamlet.
- reinforces the idea that denmark is a prison in which hamlet cant trust anyone
- This is making Horatio uncomfortable.
- Irony because Hamlet lacks passion.
- Speaks to the fact that men do not cry or show their emotion.
O God, your only jig-maker. What should a man do, but be merry? For, look you, how cheerful my mother looks, and my father died within these two hours.
Speaker: Hamlet
Context: Everyone is now ready for the play, and Hamlet has just sat next to Ophelia while talking crazy, waiting for the dumbshow to begin.
Importance:
- Shows Hamlet’s disgust towards his mom
- Suggests that Hamlet is getting bolder + more reckless + growing impatient because he is calling her out in public.
- also calling out ophelia bc she might be the reason the king knows he’s not actually crazy
Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?
‘Tis brief my lord.
As a woman’s love.
Speaker: Hamlet and Ophelia
Context: Everyone is now ready for the play, and Hamlet has just sat next to Ophelia while talking crazy, waiting for the dumbshow to begin.
Importance:
- Shows that Hamlet is getting impatient for the play to begin in order to see Claudius’ reaction.
- Shows his disgust towards his mom when saying that women’s love is brief referring to Gertrude
- Hamlet is in a manic state/mood
O, confound the rest! Such love must needs be treason in my breast: in second husband let me be accurst! None wed the second, but who kill’d the first.
Speaker: Player Queen
Context: The player Queen says these lines during the play of the “Murder of Gonzago,” which Hamlet, Gertrude, Claudius, Ophelia, and many nobles are watching as part of Hamlet’s plan to catch the conscience of the king.
Importance:
- This is a dig at Gertrude for getting married so soon after Hamlet Sr. died
- Dramatic irony since these lines hint at murder
- Shows his focus is on his mom, not Claudius (Hamlet is distracted from his revenge)
- Hamlet is in a manic state
The instances that second marriage move are based respects of thrift, but none of love. A second time I kill my husband dead when second husband kisses me in bed.
Speaker: Player Queen
Context: The player Queen says these lines during the play of the “Murder of Gonzago,” which Hamlet, Gertrude, Claudius, Ophelia, and many nobles are watching as part of Hamlet’s plan to catch the conscience of the king.
Importance:
- This is a dig at Gertrude for getting married so soon after Hamlet Sr. died
- Dramatic irony since these lines hint at murder
- Shows his focus is on his mom, not Claudius (Hamlet is distracted from his revenge)
- Hamlet is in a manic state
What to ourselves in passion we propose, the passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
Speaker: Player King
Context: The player King says these lines during the play of the “Murder of Gonzago,” which Hamlet, Gertrude, Claudius, Ophelia, and many nobles are watching as part of Hamlet’s plan to catch the conscience of the king. He is saying that with time, passion fades.
Importance:
- This quote refers to Hamlet and is criticizing him for not yet acting on his revenge since he does not have the passion he once had when promising to the ghost to swiftly act on his revenge
Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own; so think thou wilt no second husband wed, but die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead.
Speaker: Player King
Context: The player King says these lines during the play of the “Murder of Gonzago,” which Hamlet, Gertrude, Claudius, Ophelia, and many nobles are watching as part of Hamlet’s plan to catch the conscience of the king. He is saying that no one can control their fate.
Importance:
- Brings up the idea of fate
- Refers to Hamlet being a prisoner of his fate (Denmark is a prison)
- sums up hamlet, says hes gna act and kill king but he never does
Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife, if, once a widow, ever I be a wife!
Speaker: Player Queen
Context: The player Queen says these lines during the play of the “Murder of Gonzago,” which Hamlet, Gertrude, Claudius, Ophelia, and many nobles are watching as part of Hamlet’s plan to catch the conscience of the king. She is basically putting a curse on herself by saying that if she ever gets married again, bad things will happen to her.
Importance:
- Foreshadows that bad things will happen to Gertrude
The lady protests too much, methinks
Speaker: Gertrude
Context: After the first part of the play has been completed, Hamlet asks his mother what she thinks of the play which she responds with this quote stating that the player queen talks too much.
Importance:
- Shows that Gertrude is agitated by the play
- Shes aware of the fact that the player queen is supposed to represent her
The Mouse-trap. Marry how?
Speaker: Hamlet
Context: The first part of the play has just been completed and Hamlet is giving his mother a hard time therefore Claudius steps in and then proceeds to ask the name of the play.
Importance:
- This is significant because the real name of the play is “The Murder of Gonzago” but Hamlet replies “The Mouse-trap.” This is Hamlet’s way of hinting that this play is a trap for Claudius in order to prove his guilt for the murder of Hamlet Sr.
- Calling out king, saying he fell into his mouse trap
Your majesty, and we that have free souls, it touches us not: let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung. **
Speaker: Hamlet
Context: The first part of the play has just been completed and Hamlet is giving his mother a hard time therefore Claudius steps in and starts to talk with Hamlet.
Importance:
- Free soul refers to having no guilt, therefore sinners are not free souls. He is referring to
Gertrude and Claudius as being not free souls.
- Ironic because Hamlet is calling them sinners when he has sinned himself as well by thinking of killing himself and wanting to kill the king (“God’s representative on Earth”).
- Demonstrates how religious Hamlet is.
- Horatio is the only free soul.
Your wisdom should show itself more richer to signify this to his doctor; for, for me to put him to his purgation would perhaps plunge him into more choler.
Speaker: Hamlet
Context: He is talking to Guildenstern after the play has just taken place. Guildenstern has just informed Hamlet that the king is very upset about the play.
Importance:
- Hamlet is saying that if he sees the king it will just make him angrier. However, diction of the word “purgation” suggests that Hamlet is implying that the next time he sees Claudius he will kill him
- Hamlet is manic
Sir, I lack advancement.
How can that be, when you have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark?
Ay, sir, but “While the grass grows,” - the proverb is something musty.
Speakers: Hamlet and Guildenstern
Context: He is talking to Guildenstern after the play has just taken place.Hamlet is saying that he does not have anything and Guildenstern says that Hamlet is heir to the throne therefore he does have everything. Hamlet replies again by saying that he will die before ever becoming king.
Importance:
- Foreshadows Hamlet’s death
- Suggests that he knows he will die soon
‘Sblood, do you think that I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you cannot play upon me.
Speaker: Hamlet
Context: He is talking to Rosencrantz after the play. Hamlet has just asked Guildenstern to play the record, but when he says no, Hamlet is asking why he is playing him instead.
Importance:
- Hamlet is calling out Rosencrantz and Guildenstern for betraying him to Claudius and Gertrude
- Hamlet is in a man state and is acting bold
- Scratching the surface
The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom: let me be cruel, not unnatural: I will speak daggers to her, but use none
Speaker: Hamlet
Context: Polonius has just told Hamlet that his mother wants to speak with him (she is upset about the play). Hamlet accepts to meet with her. This quote is spoken by Hamlet once he is alone after Polonius leaves.
Importance:
- Hamlet is saying that he will not kill his mother, just kill her with words
- Nero = roman emperor that killed his mom and sat by playing the fiddle while Rome burned, and his adoptive father is named Claudius. Refers to Hamlet
- Sets up the mother-son show down about to happen
