Appearance vs. Reality - Hamlet Flashcards
Acted emotion - Hamlet 2:2
‘what’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba that he should weep for her?’
False words and the omniscience of the divine - Claudius 3:3
‘my words fly up, my thoughts remain below; words without thoughts never to heaven go’
Hypocritical teachings - Polonius 1:3 (2)
‘thou canst not be false to any man’ and ‘to thine own self be true’
False projection of grief - Claudius 1:2
‘that it us befitted to bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom to be contracted in one brow of woe’
Reality of his emotion - Hamlet 1:2
‘Seems madam? Nay it is; I know not ‘seems’’
False madness - Hamlet 3:4
‘mad in craft’
False - Claudius 1:2
‘our dear brother’
Polonius says something then proceeds to do the complete opposite - Polonius 2:2
‘brevity is the soul of wit’
Deceptive, unconventional means - Hamlet 2:2
‘the play’s the thing’
Limited way of viewing the world - Hamlet 1:5
‘there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy’
Usure whether to trust the ghost - Hamlet 1:4
‘be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned’
Lying about false emotion - Hamlet 3:1
‘you should not have believed me […] I loved you not’
Confused emotions about Ophelia - Hamlet 5:1
‘I lov’d Ophelia: forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum’
Opinion of R and G - Hamlet 3:4
‘whom I will trust as I will adders fang’d’
Cynical of Hamlet’s appearance of madness - Claudius 3:1
‘it lack’d form a little’
Appearance of changed character - Claudius 3:1
‘puts him thus from fashion of himself’
Buying into the appearance of madness - Ophelia 3:1
‘O, what a noble mind is here o’er-thrown!’
