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Hamlet 1:2 Flashcards

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‘He remains silent… Echoing… but his state…’

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‘[Hamlet] remains silent on stage, unacknowledged until line 64. Echoing the Ghost in the scene before, he is a figure of mystery, but his state of mourning is signalled by his black clothing’ - SD

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‘The memory be…’

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‘the memory be green’ - Claudius/King
- the death of Hamlet sr. is fresh

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key nature of the King’s soliloquy 1:2

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  • a lot of justifying surrounding the incest stuff
  • overly formal, performative
  • forced agreeing (‘Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone with this affair along. For all, our thanks’)
  • dismissive (‘so much for him’)
  • comes across more scheming, less bold, manipulative (talks in statements, see “forced agreeing)
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‘our sometime…’

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‘our sometime sister, now our queen’ - King
- daring people to comment on the incest
- shocks audience

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‘with mirth in…’

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‘with mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage’ - King
- assonance (‘mirth’ ‘dirge’)
- opposing double

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‘Your better…’

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‘Your better wisdoms which have freely gone with this affair along. For all, our thanks’ - king
- statements, forced to agree, challenging them

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how does the King talk about Fortinbras/F’s views of Denmark

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  • ‘weak supposal of our worth’
  • ‘our state to be disjoint and out of frame’
  • ‘hath not fail’d to pester us with message/importing the surrender of those lands’
  • thinks they’re not strong cos of king’s death
  • body politic, head vs body
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stage directions for Hamlet in 1:2

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‘He remains silent on stage, unacknowledged until line 64. Echoing the Ghost in the scene before, he is a figure of mystery, but his state of mourning is signalled by his black clothing’ - SD
- even though period of mourning is over he still wears black

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body politic

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the people of a nation, state, or society considered collectively as an organized group of citizens

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How is the king of Norway described?

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  • Fortinbras’ Uncle
  • ‘impotent and bed-rid’
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Laertes asks to return to france

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‘Your leave and favour to return to France’ ‘Your gracious leave and pardon’

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‘But now, my cousin…’

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‘But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son’ - King
- only been a couple of months

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Hamlet’s first line

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  • is an aside (doesn’t want to be part of the court)
  • is a dig at the King calling him ‘my cousin’ and ‘my son’
  • ‘A little more than kin, and less than kind’ - Hamlet
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‘cast thy…’

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‘cast thy nighted colour off’ - Queen
- telling Hamlet to stop mourning and take off the black clothes

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hamlet’s request of the King

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‘For your intent In going back to school in Wittenburg’ - King
- just like Laertes wants yet C won’t let him

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‘seems, Madam…’

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‘Seems, Madam! Nay, it is; I know not seems.’ - Hamlet
- offended by the suggestion that his mourning is put on in some way

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‘I have that within…’

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‘I have that within that passes show’ - Hamlet
- not just how he dresses and acts
- is in mourning, (queen isn’t?)

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'’Tis sweet and… To give… your father…’

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'’Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, To give these mourning duties to your father; But you must know your father lost a father; that father lost his’ - King to Hamlet
- patronising
- suggests the grief and mourning is unnecessary
- “get over it this is nothing knew”

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how does the King describe Hamlet’s grief?

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'’tis unmanly grief’

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‘and think of us…’

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‘and think of us As of a father’ - King to Hamlet
- royal ‘We’
- attempting to replace Hamlet Sr already

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‘you are the most…’

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‘you are the most immediate to our throne’ - King to Hamlet
- why didn’t Hamlet become king after his dad’s death
- did claudius steal the crown or was Hamlet too young/inexperienced to take it?

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‘And with no less…’

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‘And with no less nobility of love Than that which dearest father bears his son Do I impart toward you’ - King to hamlet
- again, attempting to replace Hamlet’s father (‘and think of us as of a father’)

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‘It is most…’

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‘It is most retrograde to our desire’ - King to Hamlet at request to return to school in Germany

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‘Our chiefest…’

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‘Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son’ - King to Hamlet

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'Let not thy...'
'Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet' - Queen to Hamlet - private vs public (her role as queen conflicts with her role as a mother) - this is a display of the private (Hamlet responds in a public persona however)
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'I shall in all...'
'I shall in all my best obey you, madam' - H to queen - deference - remains in a public form ('madam') despite the Queen's use of private 'mother'
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'This gentle and...'
'This gentle and unforc'd accord of Hamlet' - King - heavy suggestion again
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'O, that this...'
'O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve into a dew!' - Hamlet - emotional - the substantial become insubstantial - something impossible
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Hamlet's mental state in his first soliloquy
- in deep pain, lowest point (a walking disaster not recognisable as the prince) - both about his father's death and his mother's marriage - his language shows his distress - existential angst
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'Or that the Everlasting...'
'Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd his canon 'gainst self-slaughter!' - H - "if only God wasn't against suicide" - would have shocked the elizabethan audience (society very against suicide due to strong religion)
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''tis an unweeded...'
''tis an unweeded garden' - H - order and disorder - Elizabethan gardens context - talking about the current situation/events
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'canon'
divine law
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Elizabethan gardens context
- ''tis an unweeded garden' - H - symmetrical, full of mathematical shapes - planned and controlled - 'unweeded garden' therefore implies chaos and disorder to the elizabethan audience
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Hamlet's fixation on time in his first soliloquy
'But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two' 'within a month' 'a little month' 'within a month' for a second time - distressed by how quick his mother married
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how does Hamlet present his mother and father's relationship?
- a marriage of love - 'Hyperion' - divinity, God of heavenly light - 'so loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.' - H Sr is glorified and eulogised, hyperbole
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how does Hamlet present his mother and uncle's relationship?
- a marriage of sex - 'a satyr' vs H sr's 'Hyperion' - 'satyr' is claudius (sexual) - 'incestuous sheets'
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religious context (Hamlet's soliloquy)
- Hamlet is historical fiction, so a commentary on Elizabethan context - Hamlet is effectively a humanist in a medieval setting - Catholic culture in the time of Hamlet - 'the Everlasting had not fix'd his canon 'gainst self-slaughter!' - 'O God! God!' - 'Heaven and Earth'
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'Frailty, thy...'
'Frailty, thy name is woman!' - Hamlet - misogynistic - not just Getrude/Queen (his mother) but all women - Ophelia
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reasons G might have married Claudius
- motherly love (ensure Hamlet's fate) - power/safety - stability for the state
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'A little month or...'
'A little month or ere those shoes were old with which she followed my poor father's body [...] married with my uncle' - Hamlet about his mother - "before the shoes she wore to his father's funeral were old she was married" - another comment on the timeframe of funeral to wedding
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'a beast that...'
'a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourn'd longer' - Hamlet in his soliloquy - "a beast without rational thought would have mourned longer than she did"
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'Within a month, ere yet...'
'Within a month, ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears had left the flushing in her galled eyes, she married' - Hamlet - "within a month, before her tears over her husband had dried, she was married"
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'O, most wicked...'
'O, most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets!' - Hamlet - 'incestuous sheets' - transferred epithet
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transferred epithet
when the epithet (quality or characteristic: 'incestuous') is moved from the real subject (the Queen) to another associated one (the 'sheets')
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'But break...'
'But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.'
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social relationship between Horatio and Hamlet
- Hamlet is Horatio's social superior despite the seemingly close relationship and bond of trust - Hamlet calls Horatio 'my good friend' whilst Horatio calls him 'my lord'
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'We'll teach you to...'
'We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart' - Hamlet to Horatio - a comment that the Danes drink too much (not impressed with the social state in court)
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'Indeed...'
'Indeed, my lord, it followed hard upon.' - Horatio to Hamlet about the wedding - its not just Hamlet who think it was fast
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how does Horatio break the news of his father's ghost to Hamlet?
- 'My lord, I think I saw him yester-night' - 'each word made true and good' (the watchmen weren't lying)
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'My lord, I think...'
'My lord, I think I saw him yester-night' - Horatio to Hamlet
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'A figure like...'
'A figure like your father, armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe' - Horatio to Hamlet - fully armed, from head to toe ('cap-a-pe')
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'Stand dumb...'
'Stand dumb and speak not to him' - Horatio to Hamlet - the guards didn't speak to the ghost
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'This to me in...'
'This to me in dreadful secrecy impart they did; And I with them the third night kept the watch [...] each word made true and good' - Horatio to Hamlet - confirming the sighting of his father was real
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'The apparition...'
'The apparition comes. I knew your father; these hands are not more like' - Horatio to Hamlet - reliable - the ghost was definitely his father
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'But answer...'
'But answer made it none' - Horatio - the ghost did not speak - important to set the scene when it does reply to Hamlet later
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'Let it be tenable...'
'Let it be tenable in your silence still' - Hamlet to guards and Horatio - do not speak of the ghost
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'All is...'
'All is not well.' - Hamlet at the end of 1:2 after finding out about the ghost of his father

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