English Lit Hamlet 27+ Flashcards
Hamlet
Family
Said to Polonius
Phrase is inturpreted to relate to Polonius’ relationship with ophelia
‘Fishmonger’
Hamlet
Madness and melancholia
Responsibility and freedom
Hamlet feels trapped
‘Denmarks a prison’
Hamlet
Said to ophelia
Gender
‘Get thee to a nunnery’
Claudius
Said to hamlet when hamlet is sad about his fathers death
Gender
‘Tis unmanly greif’
Hamlet
Acting and theatre
‘Clowns speak…’
‘Clowns speak no more than is set down for them’
Hamlet
Said when about to kill Claudius
Revenge in relation to honour and justice. Responsibility and freedom
‘Oh, this…’
‘Oh, this is hire and salary, not revenge’
Hamlet
Revenge. About play
‘To show virtue her…’
‘To show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image’
Claudius saying to Gertrude about hamlet when they’re alone
Appearance vs reality
‘Your sons distemper’
Hamlet about the play and Claudius
‘The plays the thing […] …’
‘The plays the thing […] wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King’
Hamlet
Suicide and religion
Madness and melancholia
‘His cannon…’
‘His cannon ‘faints self-slaughter! O God! O God!’
Claudius
Madness and melancholia
Revenge
‘My stronger guilt…’
‘My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent’
Hamlet
Death
In his to be or not to be solique
Madness and melancholia
‘To die to sleep’
Hamlet Death In the to be or not to be solique Madness and melancholia 'For in that sleep of...'
‘For I that sleep of death what dreams may come’
Hamlet
Madness and melancholia
‘I am but mad…’
‘I am but mad north-north west, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw’
Claudius
On hamlet. Wanting him to leave
Madness and melancholia
‘Madness in great ones…’
‘Madness in great ones shall my unwatched go’
Hamlet on ghost intentions
Appearance vs reality
‘A Spirit of…’
‘A Spirit of health or goblin damned’
Hamlet On ophelia and his view of her Gender How women are seen in the patriarchal Society
‘The fair ophelia’
Claudius
On about what he has gained from his murder
Family
‘My crown…’
‘My crown, mine own ambition and my queen’
Hamlet talking about his mother
Family
‘I shall speak daggers…’
‘I shall speak daggers to her, but I will use none’
Hamlet
Madness and melancholia
‘Together with all forms…’
‘Together with all forms, moods,shapes of grief’
Ophelia to her father
Gender
‘I obey…’
‘I obey my lord’
Hamlet questioning himself and motive for his revenge
Responsibility and freedom
‘Am I…’
‘Am I a coward’
Hamlet
Madness and melancholia
Sigh of depression
‘Into my…’
‘Into my grave?’
Leatres said to ophelia
Family
‘Best safety…’
‘Best safety lies in fear’
Hamlet
Revenge etc
Acting and theatre
‘Twere the mirror…’
‘Twere the mirror up to nature’
Hamlet
Madness and melancholia
Said in his first solique
‘Weary, stale …’
‘Weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
Hamlet about Claudius being a lot like family to him
Family
‘ a little more…’
‘A little more kin and less than kind’
Hamlet
Madness
Appearance vs reality
Said to horatio
‘I must be idle’
