Appearance Vs Reality Flashcards
Hamlet referring to Claudius , how he pretends to be something in the public eye , while alone true colours prevail.
“O villain, villain, smiling damned villain!
My tables. Meet it is I set it down
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain”
Claudius shows his true colours , allows Gertrude to drink the poison , selfish did what was best for him
“How does the Queen?
She swoons to see them bleed.”
Hamlet informs his friends he will appear to be insane with out a concrete reason as to why. Hypocritical and self destructive.
“As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
To put an antic disposition on.”
Horatio is skeptical that Marcellus and Bernardo are actually seeing a ghost.
“That I can.
At least the whisper goes so: our last king,
Whose image
even but now appear’d to us,
Was as you know by Fortinbras of Norway,”
Hamlet uncovers Ophelia’s hidden motives and lies which she refuses to reveal in loyalty to Polonius.
“I have heard of your paintings well enough. God hath
given you one face and you make yourself another.”
Claudius deciphers Hamlets actions and finally understands true core intention of his madness.
“Love? His affections do not that way tend,
Nor what he spake, though it lack’d form a little,
Was not like madness.”
