Hamlet Flashcards
quotes for death/decay/corruption
is she to buried a christian burial when she wilfully seeks her own salvation
my offence is rank
To be or not to be
something is rotten in the state of Denmark
undiscovered country
critics fordeath/decay/corruption
the theme of hamlet is death
death is the picture, not the frame
death is the subject of Hamlet
Hamlet acknowledges that the next stage in his life is his journey to the grave
Hamlet is a play about death . or rather it is a play about the survival of the individual in the face of death
interpretation of the theme of death
Death the heart of both the main and sub plot
five characters killed and ophelia buried
cyclical structure of play starts with death and ends with death
critics for Ophelia
“she appears only in 5 of the 20 scenes”
Ophelia has no chance to develop an independent conscience of her own, so stifled is she by the authority of the male world”
Kenneth Branagh Version 1995: Ophelia passive L doesn’t allow her to speak
dressed in white and her only words are “watchman to my heart”
Her brain, her soul and her body are all pathetically weak
Ophelia is derived of thought, sexuality and language
Polonius trained his daughter to be obedient and uses as her as bait for spying
her whole education is geared to relying on other peoples judgement
quotes for ophelia
Tis in my heart locked and you shall keep the key
Watchman to my heart
I hop’d thou shouldest been Hamlets wife
I would offer you flowers but they all withered when my father died
Get thee to a nunnery
Chaste treasure
gertrude quotes
Taken to wife
My most seeming virtuous queen
Most pernicious woman
but to live in the sweat of an unseamed bed
Stewed in corruption, honeying making love
Mother, you have my father much offended
You are the queen, your husbands brothers wife…you are my mother
My too much changed son
A second time I kill my husband when second husband kisses me in bed
These words, like daggers, enter mine ears”
gertrude critics
Inferred from the other characters’ impressions from her
Victim of bad press
Gertrude is a character largely judged on events that precede the play
Gertrude has been attacked for the three roles she occupies in the play
“wicked queen
“first thing to say about Gertrude is that she is a bad mother
“disrespect for her deceased husband”
Critical reception shared by the three male relations she has “Claudius, old hamlet, hamlet”
Shakespeare trusts Gertrude with the responsibility of shaping and analysing the plot
- explains ophelia death
shapes Claudius understanding of sons madness
“vital action to the play” - mother of hero, widow of got and wife of King
defiant act of rebellion the she drinks the wine contrary to her husbands explicit command
some deem her act of rebellion as a clear indiction of the punishments that await those who transgress patriarchal boundaries - feminine stupidity she unwittingly poisons herself like ophelia kills her self
gertrude critics
Inferred from the other characters’ impressions from her
Victim of bad press
Gertrude is a character largely judged on events that precede the play
Gertrude has been attacked for the three roles she occupies in the play
“wicked queen
“first thing to say about Gertrude is that she is a bad mother
“disrespect for her deceased husband”
Critical reception shared by the three male relations she has “Claudius, old hamlet, hamlet”
Shakespeare trusts Gertrude with the responsibility of shaping and analysing the plot
- explains ophelia death
shapes Claudius understanding of sons madness
“vital action to the play” - mother of hero, widow of got and wife of King
defiant act of rebellion the she drinks the wine contrary to her husbands explicit command
some deem her act of rebellion as a clear indiction of the punishments that await those who transgress patriarchal boundaries - feminine stupidity she unwittingly poisons herself like ophelia kills her self
Hamlet quotes
to be or not to be contagion to this world Denmarks a prison contagion to this world. Now I could drink hot blood How now? A rat! dead for ducat dead I am pigeon livered and lack gall Am I a coward? I am proud/revengefull ambitious A villain kills my father and for that I sole son do this same villain send/To heaven
