Action vs Inaction Flashcards
speak daggers.. (hamlet act 3)
“I’ll speak daggers to her but use none”
pigeon.. (Hamlet act 2)
“I am pigeon-livered and lack gall”
thinking.. (hamlet act 2)
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so”
treachery.. (Laertes act 5)
“I am justly killed with my own treachery”
where is.. (Laertes act 4)
“Where is my father?”
revenged.. (Laertes act 4)
“I’ll be revenged most thoroughly for my father”
very proud.. (Hamlet act 3)
“I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious”
solid flesh would.. (Hamlet soliloquy act 1)
passive verbs and exclamations, hamlet IS suicidal BUT it is a sin to so he wishes to melt instead. he and water do not mix- he is aware of his being.
“O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew”
Go on…. (Hamlet act 1 scene 4)
Hamlet i still unsure on what IT is yet Hamlet is all trusting. Reader could argue this is one of Hamlets only points of action throughout the whole play.
“It waves me still. Go on, I’ll follow thee”