Gertrude Quotations Flashcards
Lies to R+G about Hamlet talking about them
‘good gentlemen’, ‘he hath talked much about you’
Cuts off Polonius
‘more matter with less art’
Tells Hamlet death is natural
‘tis common all lives must die’
Gertrude admits her marriage was too quick
‘His father’s death, and our o’erhasty marriage’
Gertrude is uncomfortable about the player talking about remarriage
‘The lady doth protests too much methinks’
Change in register when she addresses Hamlet not Polonius, refers to Claudius as his ‘father’
‘Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended’
Hamlet then says ‘you have my father much offended’ referring Old Hamlet as his father
Scared for her life due to Hamlet
‘Thou wilt not murder me? Help, help, ho!’
speaking with her emotions, demonstrates Hamlet’s impulsivity and the consequences
‘Oh what a rash and bloody deed is this’
Hamlet promised to speak daggers
‘These words like daggers enter my ears’
she thinks Hamlet is mad
‘Alas he’s mad’
Gertrude realises her remarriage is wrong
‘O Hamlet speak no more’
Gertrude calls Hamlet made in 3.4
‘This bodiless creation ecstasy’
Tells Claudius Hamlet is mad which could be loyalty or she may believe Hamlet is mad
‘Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend’
she physically protects Claudius, Claudius says
‘let him [Laertes] go’
not wanting to be ordered by Claudius
‘I will my [drink] lord, I pray you pardon me’
Gertrude romanticises Ophelia’s death as she is surrounded by flowers, innocence
. ‘Fantastic garlands’
. ‘Crow flowers, nettles, daisies’
nature is sad Ophelia is dead
‘Fell into a weeping brook’
Celebration of Ophelia’s beauty in both life and death- idealised and romantic image, pre-Raphaelite lens of the beauty of women taints the view of death as something ethereal and romantic, even though death was more normal in Shakespeare’s time, it was often graphic and visceral- this is a conflicting view., ‘mermaid-like’ is both beautiful and supernaturally scary- conflicting views encompassed in the simile
‘And mermaid like awhile they bore her up’
‘And mermaid like awhile they bore her up’
Celebration of Ophelia’s beauty in both life and death- idealised and romantic image, pre-Raphaelite lens of the beauty of women taints the view of death as something ethereal and romantic, even though death was more normal in Shakespeare’s time, it was often graphic and visceral- this is a conflicting view., ‘mermaid-like’ is both beautiful and supernaturally scary- conflicting views encompassed in the simile
so overwhelmed Ophelia couldn’t fight the drowning or she didnt want to
‘As one incapable of her own distress’
