Hamlet: Grief Flashcards
Gertrude to Hamlet:
‘tis ________ grief’
‘tis unmanly grief’
A1 S2
‘O, this is the ________ of ______ grief:’
‘O, this is the poison of deep grief:’
(Claudius about Ophelia)
‘thou ____________, murd’rous, _________ Dane’
‘thou incestuous, murd’rous, damned Dane’
A5 S2 (Hamlet before he kills Claudius)
‘_____ thy _________ colour off’
‘cast thy nighted colour off’
A1 S2 (Gertrude)
- Hamlets mourning is excessive and unnatura’
- He should not dwell on his grief
‘Hamlet is as __________ in grief as it is in ______’
‘Hamlet is as drenched in grief as it is in blood’
Meghan O’Rourke (20th)
‘__________ his ____ and most __________ murder’
‘Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder’
‘What’s ________ to him, or he to ________, that he should ______ for her?’
‘What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, that he should weep for her?’
A2 S2
- Amazed at actors ability to show grief/anger for someone he has never met
‘Hamlet’s _____ is real, and not a matter of ___________ and ___________; Laetes’ _____ is all _____ and no ____________.’
‘Hamlet’s grief is real, and not a matter of clothing and appearances; Laetes’ grief is all show and no substance.’
Taylor (20th)
‘Till I have ________ her ______ more in mine _____’
‘Till I have caught her once more in mine arms’
Leaps into the grave
A5 S1 (Laertes)
- Laertes’ performative grief
- Compensating for his previous lack of presence, although it is too late
- Insists to be buried with her
‘_______ is he whose _____ bears such an _________’
‘What is he whose grief bears such an emphasis’
A5 S1 (Hamlet)