Act one quotes Flashcards
Quotes surrounding the theme of corruption and disease within Denmark
‘There is something rotten in the state of Denmark’ (Marcellus Scene 4)
‘Time is out of joint’ (Hamlet Scene 5)
‘Tis bitter cold and I am sick at heart’ (Scene One)
‘This bodes some strange erruption to our state’ (Horatio Scene one)
‘A little ere the mightiest Julius fell the graves stood tenant-less.’ (Horatio Scene one)
‘I doubt some foul play’ (Hamlet Scene 2)
Key quotes from Hamlet’s first soliloquy (S2)
‘Frailty thy name is woman’
‘O that this solid flesh would melt… Or that the everlasting had not fixed him canon against self slaughter’
‘tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed things rank and gross in nature.’
‘no more like my father, than I to Hercules’
‘Oh most wicked speed to post such with such dexterity to incestuous sheets’
‘O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourned longer’
How does Hamlet respond to Claudius’ remark of his prolonged mourning in Scene 2?
‘How is it that the clouds still hang on you? (C)
‘Not so my lord, I am too much i’th’sun’ (H)
How does Claudius refer to Gertrude in his speech to the court in Scene 2?
‘Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen. The imperial jointress to this warlike state’
How does Hamlet respond to his mother’s concern for his mourning appearance? (S2)
‘seems madam? Nay it is, I know not seems.’
How does the ghost appear, what is he wearing? Why is this significant? (S2)
‘my father’s spirit, in arms!’
‘wore his beaver up’
How does Laertes view Hamlets love for Ophelia?(S3)
‘The perfume of and suppliance of a minuet (pastime)’
What does Ophelia say in response to her brother’s advice?(S3)
‘while… himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, and recks not his own rede’
What advice does Polonius give to Laertes before he goes back to Wittenburg to study? (S3)
‘to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man’
How is the word ‘tenders’ used back and forth between Polonius and Ophelia in their discussion of Hamlets love for her?(S3)
Ophelia uses this to suggest that Hamlet has made his affections toward her in a true honest way, she uses it to suggest it means caring (‘he has my lord of late, made many tenders of his affection to me’). Polonius then ises her own words against her to suggest that she is naieve and innocent. He is ridiculing and patronising her happiness- something that is in significant contrast to how Laertes treats her. (‘take these tenders for true pay’ + ‘tender yourself more dearly’ + ‘you’ll tender me a fool’)
What type of language does Polonius use throughout his advice given to Ophelia? (S3)
Financial language (in which he refers to Hamlet’s love for her)- ‘sterling’ , ‘true pay’ , ‘set your entreatments at a higher rate’ , ‘investments’
What does Polonius say about Hamlet’s confessions of love to Ophelia?
‘Ay, springes to catch woodcocks’
How does Ophelia describe Hamlet’s advances of love towards her? (S3)
’ In honourable fashion’ + ‘With almost all the holy vows of heaven’
What does the Ghost command Hamlet to do? (S5)
‘Revenge his most foul and unnatural murder.’
How does Shakespeare allude to the fact that Old Hamlet is in purgatory? (S5)
’ I am thy father’s spirit, doomed for a certain term to walk the night’ + ‘till my foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purged away’
How does Shakespeare show that Hamlet is committed to his revenge? (S5)
‘Now to my word, its ‘Adieu, Adieu, remember me’ I have swornt’
What does the ghost say to Hamlet about who tipped poison into his ear? (S5)
‘the serpent that did sting thy father’s life, now wears his crown’
How does the Ghost tell Hamlet to revenge his mother? (S5)
HE DOESNT!!!!!!
‘leave her to heaven, and to those thorns in her bosom ledge to prick and sting her’
What does Hamlet say in his first speech to the ghost? Something that perplexes him? S4
‘Why thy canonised bones, hearsed in death have burst their cements’
How does Hamlet suggest the Ghost is interrupting the night? S4
‘making night hideous, and we fools of nature, so horridly to shake our disposition’ - the ghost challenges everything Hamlet thought he knew about life (as a scholar) thus he makes a mockery of him and them all.
Why is Hamelt critical of the partying going on in Act 1 Scene 4?
- He despises the wedding couple and specifically their choice of partner in each other (incest)
- He tells Horatio and Marcellus that other countries see Denmark as being too drunken and partying too often. He despises them because of this. He is judgmental.
‘The triumph of his pledge’ (why Claudius is celebrating) + ‘makes us traduced and taxed of other nations, the clepe us drunkards’
