Claudius quotes Flashcards
1.2 - “with mirth in funeral..
and with dirge in marriage”
1.2 - “tis unmanly
grief”
1.2 - Hamlet’s mourning is a “fault to heaven..
a fault against the dead, a fault to nature”
1.5 - OKH says that “the serpent
that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown”
1.5 - OKH calls Claudius “that
adulterate beast […] with traitorous gifts”
1.5 - Hamlet says
“O villain, villain, smiling damned villain!”
2.2 - Claudius says “all your son’s distemper”
- “your” not “our” - not a unified entity
- AO1 - moment when P tells C about Ophelia/Hamlet
2.2 - Hamlet to the Players - “you are welcome but..
my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived”
Hamlet’s 2.2 soliloquy - “Remorseless,
treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!”
2.2 - “The play’s the thing
wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King”
3.2 - The play
“we that have free souls, it touches us not”
3.2 - Claudius’s reaction to the play
“Give me some light. Away!”
R+G towards Claudius in 3.3
“the cess of majesty dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw” “it is a massy wheel”
3.1 prayer
“pray can I not” “what can it when one cannot repent?”
Hamlet planning when to kill Claudius 3.3
in the “incestuous pleasure of his bed”
Claudius in 3.3 (rhyming couplet)
“my words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go”
