Final Hamlet quotes Flashcards
Hamlet faking madness
“To put an antic disposition on” (act 1, scene 5)
Hamlet literally contemplating suicide
“Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them” (act 3, scene 1)
The Ghost instructing revenge
“Revenge my most foul and unnatural murder” (act 1, scene 5)
Hamlet saying Claudius cannot be saved
“There has no relish of salvation in’t” (act 3, scene 3)
Hamlet insulting himself after hearing the player
“O what a rogue and peasant slave am I!”
Hamlet’s “dread” about life and death
“But the dread of something after death”
“The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns”
Withdrawn: Hamlet accepting fate and about to fight Laertes
“If it be now, ‘tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now” (act 5, scene 2)
Hamlet upset about Gertrude’s actions (early)
1.) Women 2.) sheets
“Frailty thy name is woman”
“With such dexterity to incestuous sheets”
Hamlet confronting Gertrude after Mousetrap
“Oh shame, where is thy blush?” (act 3, scene 4)
Hamlet (mad?) confronting Ophelia
“Get thee to a nunnery” (act 3, scene 1)
Hamlet’s anger at Gertrude for Claudius in her closet
“stew’d”
“Rank sweat of an enseamed bed, stew’d in corruption”
Hamlet stating difference between King Hamlet and Claudius
“No more like my father than I to Hercules” (act 1, scene 2)
Claudius wrestling with guilt post murder
“My offence is rank, it smells to heaven”
The Ghost defending Gertrude
“Most seeming virtuous queen” (act 1, scene 5)
Claudius’ reasoning for murder
“Effects for which I did the murder: my crown, mine own ambition, and my queen” (act 3, scene 3)
Gertrude defending Hamlet’s action
“Shows itself pure, he weeps for what is done” (act 4, scene 1)
Gertrude potentially protecting Hamlet
“Oh my dear Hamlet - the drink, the drink - I am poisoned” (act 5, scene 2)
Marcellus about Denmark
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” (act 1, scene 4)
Claudius minimising King Hamlet’s death to Hamlet
“You must know your father lost a father, that father lost, lost his” (act 1, scene 2)
Hamlet sadly comparing Claudius to King Hamlet
“Hyperion”
“So excellent a king, that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr” (act 1, scene 2)
Hamlet explaining why he will kill Claudius when he is not praying
“That has no relish of salvation in ‘t” (act 3, scene 3)
Polonius using Ophelia to catch Hamlet
“I’ll loose my daughter to him” (act 2, scene 2)
Hamlet berating Ophelia
“Get thee to a nunnery!”
Hamlet wondering how the players can express such emotion
“What is Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba that he should weep for her?”
Hamlet scheming to catch Claudius with the play
“The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king”
Hamlet contemplating suicide
“O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew.”
Claudius praying for his many sins
“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
Hamlet disrespecting Ophelia
“God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another…it hath make me mad”
