Corruption Flashcards
First line of the play
‘Who’s there?’ - immediately, paranoia is conveyed through repeated questions = points to wider societal instability and (spiritual) tension of the setting
Act 1, Scene 2 in Hamlet’s 1st Soliloquy
‘Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed, things rank and gross in nature’
Marcellus in Act 1, Scene 4
‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’
Corruption: Claudius in Scene 3, Act 3
‘the corrupted currents of this world’
Act 4, Scene 4, in which Hamlet describes Fortinbras
‘two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats…this is th’impostume of much wealth and peace’
Act 4, Scene 5 - Corruption Spreading through Denmark
‘the people muddied, thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers’
HAMLET showing signs of INSOMNIA on trip to england in Act 5 scene 2
‘There was a kind of fighting that would not let me sleep’
Elizabethan view of this as proof of possession / evil ness in soul - REVENGE AS CORRUPTING SOUL
Hamlet’s view of Denmark as trapping him 2,2
‘Denmark’s a prison’ ‘Then is the world one’ ‘A goodly one in which there are many confines, wards and dungeons; Denmark being one o’th’worst’
Ghost talking about Claudius crime 1.5
By a brother’s hand, of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatched…let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damnèd incest.’
- GHOST sounds like HAMLET later on - fathers life and desire becomes HAMLETS - INTERDEPENDENCE OF KING & STATE
Marcellus 4.4
‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’
Ha,let’s evil speech at end of 3.1
‘Tis now the very witching time of night when…hell itself breathes out contagion to this world. Now could i drink hot blood’
Hamlet as disease in Denmark says Claudius 4,3
‘Disease desperate grown by desperate appliance are relieved or not at all’
Idea of corruption thru wealth 4.4
‘two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats…this is th’impostume of much wealth and peace’
