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AO1: Hamlet (quotes) Flashcards

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APPEARANCE VS REALITY: How does Hamlet describe Claudius in Act 1, Scene 5?

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“One may smile and smile and be a villain”

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APPEARANCE VS REALITY: How does Claudius lie about murdering OKH? 4.3

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“I am guiltless of your father’s death”

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APPEARANCE VS REALITY: How does the ghost describe Gerturude’s lies?

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“seemingly virtuous queen”

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APPEARANCE VS REALITY: How does Hamlet distinguish himself from Gertrude and Claudius’ pretenses about his dead father? 1.2

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“Seems madam I know not seems”

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APPEARANCE VS REALITY: How does Horatio worry for Hamlet’s safety when approaching the ghost? 1.4

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“assume some other horrible form”

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FATE: How does Hamlet describe the fate of thoughts? 2.2

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“Our devices still are overthrown, our thoughts are ours, there ends none of our own”

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FATE: How does Hamlet feel compelled to talk to the ghost in Act 1 Scene 4?

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“My fate cries out”

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FATE: How does Hamlet make out that their action defy the future whilst coming to terms with his own death in Act 5 Scene 2?

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‘We defy augury. There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.’

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FATE: How does Hamlet reflect on death? 5.1

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Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, might stop a hole to keep the wind away.

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FATE: How does Hamlet weigh up his decision to kill the king due to it changing his fate in act 3.1?

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“To be or not to be”

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MONARCHY: How does the ghost describe Claudius? 1.5

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“The serpent that did sting thy father now wears his crown”

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MONARCHY: How does Hamlet describe Claudius? 3.4

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“A king of shreds and patches”

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MONARCHY: Which quote shows that despite your status, death is inevitable? 5.1

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“Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, might stop a hole to keep the wind away.”

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MONARCHY:How does Hamlet describe Fortinbras determination to avenge Norway 4.4 ?

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“witness this army of such mass and charge/, Led by a delicate and tender prince, / Whose spirit, with divine ambition puffed”

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MONARCHY: How does hamlet describe Claudius as worthless in act 4.2?

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“The King is a thing - … Of nothing”

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LOVE: How does Hamlet describe his love for Ophelia in Act 5, Scene 1?

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” I loved Ophelia, 40,000 brothers could not // make up my sum”

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LOVE: What does Hamlet say in his love letters to Ophelia in Act 2.2?

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“Never doubt I love”

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LOVE: How does Hamlet’s love for Ophelia change? 3.1

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“I did love you once I loved you not”

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LOVE: How does Polonius about losing Ophelia to Hamlet in act 3.1?

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“I’ll lose my daughter to him”

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LOVE: How does Hamlet show, despite his anger, he would never hurt his mum?

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“I shall speak daggers to her, but i will use none”

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MADNESS: What does Hamlet decide to do to catch the king out? 1.5

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“Put an antic disposition on”

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MADNESS: How does Polonius describe Hamlets’ madness? 2.2

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“Though there be madness yet there be method in it”

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MADNESS: How does Hamlet describe his madness as purposeful? 3.4

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“Am not in madness but mad in craft”

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MADNESS: How does Gertrude describe Hamlet’s outburst at Ophelia’s funeral? 5.1

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“This is mere madness”

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MADNESS: In Act 2, scene X how does Polonius hatch a plan to find the catalyst for Hamlet’s madness?

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At such a time I’ll lose my daughter to him.
Be you and I behind an arras then,
Mark the encounter.

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VILLIANY: How does H describe C as a villain in 2.2?

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“Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain”

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VILLIANY: How does Laertes blame Claudius? 5.2

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“The king’s to blame”

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VILLIANY: How does Hamlet describe Clauidus’ villiany in 3.3 and how he will avenge him ?

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A villain kills my father, and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send to heaven.

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VILLIANY: In Act 2, scene X how does Polonius hatch a plan to find the catalyst for Hamlet’s madness?

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At such a time I’ll lose my daughter to him.
Be you and I behind an arras then,
Mark the encounter.

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VILLIANY: How does Claudius attempt to manipulate everyone against Hamlet in Act 4 Scene 7?

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“I will work him to an exploit, now ripe in my device… even his mother shall… call it an accident

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WOMEN: What does Polonius tell Ophelia to do? 1.3

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“Think yourself a baby”

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WOMEN: What does Polonius call Ophelia?

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“Green girl”

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WOMEN: How does Hamlet call Ophelia a s***? 3.1

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“Get thee to a nunnery why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?”

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WOMEN: How does Hamlet call women weak? 1.2

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“Frailty thy name is women”

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WOMEN: How does Ophelia show her subservience? 1.3

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” I shall obey my lord”

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FAMILY: How does the ghost persuade Hamlet to avenge him? 1.5

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“If thou didst ever love thy father, avenge his foul and most unnatural murder”

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FAMILY: How is the incestuous nature of their family described? 2.1

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“Uncle - father and aunt- mother”

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FAMILY: What does Polonius tell Laertes to do when he leaves for university?

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“To thine own self be true”

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FAMILY: How does Hamlet show, despite his anger, he would never hurt his mum?

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“I shall speak daggers to her, but I will use none”

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FAMILY: How does Polonius show his fear of losing his daughter to Hamlet?

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“I’ll lose my daughter to him”

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SETTING: How does Marcellus deserve the corruption in Denmark to Horatio?

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“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”

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SETTING: How is Denmark described in 4.2?

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“Denmark’s A Prison”

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SETTING: In his opening soliloquy, how does Hamlet compares the world to a neglected garden

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“Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed”

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SETTING:

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SETTING:

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SUPERNATURAL: How does Hamlet describe the irrationality of the supernatural nature of his fathers ghost?

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“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio/ Than are dreamt of in your philosophy”

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SUPERNATURAL: How does Horatio worry for Hamlet’s safety when approaching the ghost? 1.4

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“assume some other horrible form”

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SUPERNATURAL:

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SUPERNATURAL:

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SUPERNATURAL:

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RELIGION: How does Hamlet turn to religion when meeting ghost in 1.5?

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“O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple hell?”

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RELIGION: What does Cluadius say in the church in hopes of redeeming his sins/

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“I do repent”

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RELIGION: What does Claudius say to heaven when praying in act x scene x?

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” Help angels bow stubborn knees”

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RELIGION: In Act 4, What does Laertes says he would do to Hamlet that contrasts with what Hamlet does not do to Claudius? Something He thinks not even God would forgive him for his sins even if he is in a church?

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“cut his throat i’the church”

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RELIGION: What is Claudius’ rhyming couplet in 3.3 stating his words have no meaning - he cannot pray?

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“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”

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REVENGE: How does the ghost persuade Hamlet to revenge him 1.5?

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“revenge his foul and most unnatural murder”

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REVENGE: How does Hamlet berate himself, having seen the passion of the players, for not acting on his own passionate desire for revenge?

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“Oh what a rogue and peasant slave am I!”

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REVENGE: What does Hamlet pose to do to catch the King?

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“Plays the thing where I catch the conscience of the king”

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REVENGE: How does Hamlet show his determination towards seeking revenge for his father in 4.4?

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“My thought be bloody or nothing worth”

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REVENGE: How does Hamlet want to seek revenge towards Claudius 3.3?

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A villain kills my father, and for that,
I, his sole son, do this same villain send
To heaven.

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MASCULINITY: How does Hamlet describe Fortinbras determination to avenge Norway? 4.4

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“witness this army of such mass and charge/, Led by a delicate and tender prince, / Whose spirit, with divine ambition puffed”

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MASCULINITY: How does Hamlet assert his masculinity to Ophelia in 3.1?

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“I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious”

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MASCULINITY: How does Gertrude describe Hamlets masculinity in X ?

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“Tis unmanly grief”

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MASCULINITY: How does Hamlet doubt his masculinity in X when he can’t kill C?

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“Am I a coward?”

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MASCULINITY: How is Laertes portrayed with manly characteristics as being a rash and a well-known fighter?

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“To cut his throat i’th’ church”

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CORRUPTION: How does Hamlet describe the corruption in Denmark? 1.5

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“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”

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CORRUPTION: How does HAlet describe G + C’s sex life?

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“In the rank unseamed bed, stewed in corruption haying + making love over the nasty sty”

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CORRUPTION: How does Sh present irony as Polonius is 2 faced with Laertes and spies on him?

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“To thine own self be true”

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CORRUPTION: How does the ghost describe Claudius? 1.5

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“The serpent that did sting thy father no wears his crown”

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CORRUPTION: How does Polonius instructs Reynaldo to spy on his son Laertes and put on….

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“What falsities you will”

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DEATH: How does Hamlet ponders the brevity and futility of the human condition and the inevitability of death in 5.1?

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Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times;

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2) DEATH: How does Hamlet reflect that death is inevitable despite stAsus in 5.1?

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Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, might stop a hole to keep the wind away.

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DEATH: of characters

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LAERTES: “I am justly killed with my own treachery”
HAMLET: “Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage”, “Now cracks a noble heart”
CLAUDIUS: “He is justly served, it is a poison tempered by himself”
QUEEN: “The king, the king’s to blame”
OPHELIA: “is she to be buried in a christian burial when she wilfully seeks her own salvation?”
POLONIUS: “I’ll lug the guts into the neighbour room”

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DEATH: How does Hamlet describe the land

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“stale, flat and unprofitable”

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1) DEATH: How does Hamlet reflect that death is inevitable despite stsus in 5.1?

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“a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar”

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