Hamlet: Action and Inaction Flashcards
‘With the _________ purposes of revenge, he is ________ and ________’
‘With the strongest purposes of revenge, he is irresolute and inactive’
Henry Mackenzie (Romantic)
‘His ruling _______ is to _____, not to ___’
‘His ruling passion is to think, not to act’
William Hazlitt (19th)
‘The ______ the thing wherein I’ll ______ the ____________ of the king’
‘The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king’
A2 S2 (Hamlet)
‘______ for a ______, dead.’
‘Dead for a ducat, dead.’
A3 S4 (Hamlet)
‘__________ purpose’
‘____ my _____ revenge’
‘blunted purpose’
‘spur my dull revenge’
‘hath but ____ part _________ and ever ______ parts ______’
‘hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward’
A4 S4 (Hamlet)
‘___________ and _____ to the ___________ pit!’
‘Conscience and grace to the profoundest pit!’
A4 S5 (Laertes)
‘are you like the ________ of a _______, a face without a ______?’
‘are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?’
A4 S7 (Claudius)
‘is’t not perfect _________ to quit him with this ____?’
‘is’t not perfect conscience to quit him with this arm?’
A5 S2
‘as a __________ to mine own _______’
‘as a woodcock to mine own springe’
A5 S2 (Laertes)
‘To ____ an antic _____________ on’
‘To put an antic disposition on’
‘Thus __________ does make ________ of us all’
‘Thus conscience does make cowards of us all’
A3 S1
‘I am _________ to my ____________’
‘I am constant to mu purposes’
A5 S2 (Hamlet)
‘Led by a _________ and _______ prince’
‘Led by a delicate and tender prince’
A4 S4
‘My stronger _____ defeats my strong ______’
‘My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent’
A3 S3
