Act (III) Flashcards
Claudius, Dramatic irony, happy to hear that he is focusing on something, vulnerable but doesn’t know it as he has been conned
Give him further edge and drive his purpose on to these delights
Gertrude, rare occasion of her interacting with Ophelia, maternal role, concern for her son, wants to bring about the end of her son’s suffering, but also needs to shift her guilt
And for your part, Ophelia, I do wish that your beauties be the happy cause of Hamlet’s madness
Claudius is haunted by guilt, he has a conscience, human nature
How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience! O, Heavy burden!
Hamlet’s tirade towards Ophelia, verbally abusive, irrational and unjust, taking out anger from his mother
Get thee to a nunnery, why would’st thou be a breeder of sinners?
Claudius pretends to be benevolent, sending hamlet to england to collect the danegeld, before the mousetrap, doesn’t plan to kill him yet, not an instinctive killer (only when he feels threatened)
He shall with speed to England for the demand of our neglected tribute
Hamlet, intimacy between hum and horatio, insight into his self-identity and what he wishes he were, values him and gives him balance
Give me that man that is not passion’s slave and I will wear him in my heart’s core
Claudius admits to the regicide and feels guilty as he still possesses the fruits of the crime
I am still possessed of those effects for which I did the murder, my crown, mine own ambition and my queen
Claudius, Hamlet’s madness is a threat to the state and Claudius
The terms of our estate may not endure hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow out of his lunacies
Rozencrantz, the actions of the king affect the people of the nation
Never alone did the King sigh, but with a general groan
Claudius is guilty and knows that his crime was the worst that he have possibly been able to commit, and God knows it
My offence is rank, it smells to heaven; it hath the primal eldest curse upon’t; A brother’s murder
Hamlet’s tirade to his mother, accuses her of infidelity and regicide
A bloody deed! almost as bad, good mother, as kill a King and marry with his brother
When Hamlet kills Polonius but wishes it was Claudius so then his duty would be done
I took thee for thy better
Gertrude, after Hamlet has pointed out what she has done and she feels guilty
O Hamlet! Speak no more; thou turn’st mine eyes into into my very soul; And there I see such black and grained spots as will not leave their tinct
Imagery of Gertrude and Claudius in love, but it is not right
Stew’d in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty
