Hamlet 3:2 Flashcards

Question

'For look you how cheerfully my...'

Answer 1

'For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.' - Hamlet - again the time-warp - player version of his father is about to die

Answer 2

'So long? Nay, then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables. O heavens!' - Hamlet to O - sarcasm about his mourning - that he can leave the dark clothes and wear something more showy

Answer 3

'die two months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year' - Hamlet to O - continue his sarcasm about his father's death - response to Ophelia's correction about the time frame

Answer 4

'The Dumb Show' - SD - silent

Answer 5

- 'King and a Queen, very lovingly' - 'makes show of protestation' - 'seeing him asleep, leaves him' - 'a Fellow, takes off his crown, kisses it, pours poison in the sleeper's ears' - 'The Poisoner woos the Queen' 'she seems harsh awhile, but in the end accepts his love.'

Answer 6

'Ay, or any show that you will show him. Be not asham'd to show, he'll not shame to tell you what it means' - Hamlet to O - 'show' the actor something intimate - again sexualising Ophelia - generalising

Answer 7

'And thou shalt live in this fair world behind,/ Honour'd, belov'd; and haply one as kind/ For husband shalt thou -' - Player king - shows the king (representing H sr.) as happy for her to remarrry

Answer 8

'None wed the second but who kill'd the first.' - Player Queen

Answer 9

'A second time I kill my husband dead,/ When second husband kisses me in bed.' - Player Queen

Answer 10

'The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.' - Player King - lose motivation once emotions calm - will move on from the king

Answer 11

'Whether love lead fortune or else fortune love.' - Player King - love determines destiny or destiny determines love

Answer 12

'So think thou wilt no second husband wed; But die thy thoughts when they first lord is dead.' - Player King - thoughts will change once he dies

Answer 13

'The lady doth protest too much, methinks.' - Queen talking about the player queen - Hamlet focuses on Gertrude's reaction ahead of Claudius' - distrust and misogyny

Answer 14

'The Mouse-trap.'

Answer 15

'Your majesty, and we that have free souls, it touches us not. Let the galled jade wince' - Hamlet - targeting it at Claudius, making him acutely aware of his guilt - it won't bother those with clear consciences

Answer 16

'It would cost you a groaning to take off mine edge.' - Hamlet to Ophelia - innuendos, Ophelia is aware

Answer 17

'Still better, and worse.' - O 'So you mis-take your husbands.' - H - marriage vows - expresses anger

Answer 18

''A poisons him i' th' garden for his estate' - H (referring to the play but also Claudius) - what H thinks the motivation is - '[Pours the poison in his ears.]'

Answer 19

'What, frighted with false fire!' - H - "just a play" - pushing it - indication of guilt - 'Let the galled jade wince'

Answer 20

- wants clarity and hope

Answer 21

'Why, let the stricken deer go weep' - H about C

Answer 22

'Half a share' - Horatio 'A whole one, I.' - Hamlet (certainty)

Answer 23

'for for me to put him to his purgation would perhaps plunge him into far more choler.' - Hamlet - H is not the right person to relieve the King's temper - 'purgation' - absolve of sins

Answer 24

'If it shall please you to make me a wholesome answer, I will do your mother's commandment' - Gil - getting frustrated with Hamlet

Answer 25

'Make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseas'd' - H - antic disposition

Answer 26

'We shall obey, were she ten times our mother.' - Hamlet - royal we (distances him from his former friends, stepping into kingship) - H doesn't think she deserves to be followed

Answer 27

'My lord, you once did love me.' - Ros to H - shows that Hamlet has chafed - R attempts to win Hamlet's confidence again, reminding him of better times and past friendship

Answer 28

'You do surely bar the door upon your own liberty, if you do deny your griefs to your friend.' - Ros - trying to reach Hamlet - referring to the 'Denmark's a prison' line earlier

Answer 29

'Sir, I lack advancement.' - H - he is not able to progress politically or socially (as heir to the throne) - sense of frustration (perhaps hinted to earlier in his talk to Claudius of empty 'promises'

Answer 30

'How can that be, when you have the voice of the King himself for your succession in Denmark?.' - Ros - how can that be when the king has named you successor - means little given Claudius took the throne

Answer 31

'Ay, sir, but 'While the grass grows' - the proverb is something musty.' - Hamlet - refers to 'While the grass grows, the seed starves' - while Claudius prospers, Hamlet cannot - ALLUSION

Answer 32

'why do you go about to recover the wind of me, as if you would drive me into a toil?' - H - holding one of the 'recorders' (idea of being played) - "Why are you maneuvering the conversation, as if you’re trying to take advantage of me, like a hunter moving upwind of his prey to drive it into a net?"

Answer 33

'It is as easy as lying: govern these ventages with your fingers and thumb' - H - how naturally lying comes to those at court - 'govern' implies control

Answer 34

'But these cannot I command to ant utterance of harmony; I have not the skill.' - Guil after H points out he is playing the instrument - this offends Hamlet who expressed anger that Guil claims not to have the skill to play the pipe but presumes to 'play' him

Answer 35

'Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me' - H - can play Hamlet but not the pipe ('I have not the skill') - 'do you think I am easier to be play'd on than a pipe?' - H

Answer 36

'do you think I am easier to be play'd on than a pipe?' - H - Guil saying he doesn't have 'the skill' to play the pipe but (as Hamlet says) attempts to 'play' H

Answer 37

'Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you cannot play upon me.' - Hamlet to Guil - 'fret me' - make him angry/fret the strings

Answer 38

'Then I will come to my mother by and by. [Aside] They fool me to the top of my bent.' - Hamlet - obeys Polonius' request to see his mother - 'top of my bent' - pulled to his extreme/full extent

Answer 39

''Tis now the very witching time of night,/ When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out/ Contagion to this world.' - H (soliloquy) - 'witching time of night' - uses the same phrase in Macbeth before he kills Duncan (the king) - referring to souls of the dead (like the Ghost) - is he one of the contagions - personification of hell - belief that night caused illness

Answer 40

'Now could I drink hot blood,/ And do such bitter business as the day/ Would quake to look on.' - Hamlet (soliloquy) - witches were believed to 'drink hot blood' - Hamlet gets carried away here with increasingly violent imagery, the caesura 'to look on. Soft!' shows him collecting himself and the change of course of the soliloquy - can do things in the night that you could not in the day

Answer 41

'O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever/ The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom.' - Hamlet (soliloquy) - will not behave like the Roman emperor nero (power struggles w/ his mother may have led to him murdering her) - chooses to turn away from the anger - refuses to stoop to Claudius' level

Answer 42

'Let me be cruel, not unnatural:/ I will speak daggers to her, but use none.' - Hamlet (soliloquy) - will be harsh but not violent (the Ghost's request) - Gertrude in 3:4 says 'These words like daggers enter into my ears' to H

Answer 43

'My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites' - Hamlet (soliloquy) - separating the parts of him: tongue represents rational discourse, his soul the emotional side - 'hypocrites' implies these two sides lead him different ways and is not happy about softening his words