Hamlet- Appearance vs Reality Flashcards
these indeed “seem”
For they are actions that a man might play.
to thine own
self be true
that incestous, that
adulterate beast.
HAMLET “The Play’s the
thing where’in I’ll catch the conscience of the king.”
HAMLET “One may smile,
and smile, and be a villain.”
HAMLET “God hath given
you one face and you make yourselves/ another” (women deception thru makeup)
HAMLET “I know
the good King and Queen have sent for you.”
HAMLET “The purpose of playing… / was
and is to hold… the mirror up to Nature.”
OPHELIA “I was
more deceived.”
HAMLET “Seems’, madam-
nay it is, I know not ‘seems’”.
Hamlet “beauty will
sooner transform honesty”
Claudius “Love? His
affections do not that way tend”
CLAUDIUS “Sith (since) nor th’exterior
nor the inward man / Resembles that it was.”