Action and Inaction - Hamlet Flashcards

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Suicidal and contemplative nature - H 1:2

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‘O that this too, too solid flesh would melt’

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Destruction of cognition - H 2:2

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‘I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams’

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Additional case in which the importance of action as opposed to delaying is important - P 2:2

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‘brevity is the soul of wit’

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Decisive but not in the traditional sense - Hamlet 2:2

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‘the play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King’

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Overthinking - Hamlet 2:2

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‘there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so’

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Cowardice - Hamlet 2:2

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‘but I am pigeon livered and lack gall’

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Debate, considering action vs fate - Hamlet 3:1

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‘To be or not to be, that is the question: whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take arms against a sea of troubles’

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Words vs. intent - Claudius 3:3

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‘my words fly up, my thoughts remain below; words without thoughts never to heaven go’

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Problem of overthinking - Hamlet 3:1

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‘conscience makes cowards of us all’

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Words instead of revenge - Hamlet 3:2

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‘I’ll speak daggers to her but use none’

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Fortinbras as a foil - Hamlet 4:4

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‘greatly to find quarrel in a straw’

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Fate and revenge - Hamlet 1:5

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‘the time is out of joint. O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right’

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