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English Lit Hamlet 27+ Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
1
Q

Hamlet
Family
Said to Polonius
Phrase is inturpreted to relate to Polonius’ relationship with ophelia

A

‘Fishmonger’

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Hamlet
Madness and melancholia
Responsibility and freedom
Hamlet feels trapped

A

‘Denmarks a prison’

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Hamlet
Said to ophelia
Gender

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‘Get thee to a nunnery’

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Claudius
Said to hamlet when hamlet is sad about his fathers death
Gender

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‘Tis unmanly greif’

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Hamlet
Acting and theatre
‘Clowns speak…’

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‘Clowns speak no more than is set down for them’

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Hamlet
Said when about to kill Claudius
Revenge in relation to honour and justice. Responsibility and freedom
‘Oh, this…’

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‘Oh, this is hire and salary, not revenge’

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Hamlet
Revenge. About play
‘To show virtue her…’

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‘To show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image’

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Claudius saying to Gertrude about hamlet when they’re alone

Appearance vs reality

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‘Your sons distemper’

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Hamlet about the play and Claudius

‘The plays the thing […] …’

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‘The plays the thing […] wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King’

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Hamlet
Suicide and religion
Madness and melancholia
‘His cannon…’

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‘His cannon ‘faints self-slaughter! O God! O God!’

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Claudius
Madness and melancholia
Revenge
‘My stronger guilt…’

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‘My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent’

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Hamlet
Death
In his to be or not to be solique
Madness and melancholia

A

‘To die to sleep’

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Hamlet 
Death 
In the to be or not to be solique 
Madness and melancholia 
'For in that sleep of...'
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‘For I that sleep of death what dreams may come’

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Hamlet
Madness and melancholia
‘I am but mad…’

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‘I am but mad north-north west, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw’

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Claudius
On hamlet. Wanting him to leave
Madness and melancholia
‘Madness in great ones…’

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‘Madness in great ones shall my unwatched go’

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Hamlet on ghost intentions
Appearance vs reality
‘A Spirit of…’

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‘A Spirit of health or goblin damned’

17
Q 
Hamlet 
On ophelia and his view of her
Gender 
How women are seen in the patriarchal 
Society
A

‘The fair ophelia’

18
Q

Claudius
On about what he has gained from his murder
Family
‘My crown…’

A

‘My crown, mine own ambition and my queen’

19
Q

Hamlet talking about his mother
Family
‘I shall speak daggers…’

A

‘I shall speak daggers to her, but I will use none’

20
Q

Hamlet
Madness and melancholia
‘Together with all forms…’

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‘Together with all forms, moods,shapes of grief’

21
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Ophelia to her father
Gender
‘I obey…’

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‘I obey my lord’

22
Q

Hamlet questioning himself and motive for his revenge
Responsibility and freedom
‘Am I…’

A

‘Am I a coward’

23
Q

Hamlet
Madness and melancholia
Sigh of depression
‘Into my…’

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‘Into my grave?’

24
Q

Leatres said to ophelia
Family
‘Best safety…’

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‘Best safety lies in fear’

25
Q

Hamlet
Revenge etc
Acting and theatre
‘Twere the mirror…’

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‘Twere the mirror up to nature’

26
Q

Hamlet
Madness and melancholia
Said in his first solique
‘Weary, stale …’

A

‘Weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,

27
Q

Hamlet about Claudius being a lot like family to him
Family
‘ a little more…’

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‘A little more kin and less than kind’

28
Q

Hamlet
Madness
Appearance vs reality
Said to horatio

A

‘I must be idle’

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