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Hamlet Quotations Flashcards

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aside, disrespectful, trying to avoid confrontation, pun = clever, still family but not real son

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‘A little more than kin and less than kind’

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Time is wrong

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‘The time is out of joint; o cursed spite that I was born to set it right’

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Hamlet describing the ghost after first encounter, possible negative

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‘O, villain, villain, smiling damned villain’

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controlling, inconsiderate, command is repeated throughout, authoritative, wants Ophelia to be shunned from society, contrasts previous affections, may want to protect her from Denmark, protected by God

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‘Get thee to a nunnary why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners’

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ironic, self denial = fragmented state of mind, hamlet describe his traits

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‘I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious’

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Better off not being born

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Better my mother had not borne me’

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Annoyed at Ophelia’s deception

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‘I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another’

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Hamlet plan to use nasty words when confronting Gertrude

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‘I will speak daggers to her but use none’

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Hamlet asks R+G if they think he can easily be fooled

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‘Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe’

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What’s the purpose of playing

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‘The purpose of playing’ is ‘twere the mirror up to nature: to show virtue her feature, scorn her own image’

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How willing hamlet is to believe the ghost

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‘I’ll take the ghost’s word for a thousand pound’

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appearance vs reality, Hamlet makes it clear he is obeying Gertrude not Claudius

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‘I shall in all my best obey you madam’

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Asks the ghost if he is a demon

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‘be though a spirit of heaven or goblin damned, bring thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell’

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Horatio asks how the talk with the ghost was and Hamlet says….

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‘oh wonderful’ - it could be mocking, patronising or it could be wonderful that he now has a motive and reason to live

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entrapment and surveillance of Denmark

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‘Denmark’s a prison’

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physical and psychological entrapment

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‘I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space were it not that I have bad dreams’

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but my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived

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Family deceived by his madness. He is mad only some of the time and at other times is sane.

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Hamlet tells Ophelia he doesn’t love her anymore

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‘I did love you once’ but then says ‘I loved you not’

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praises Horatio’s honesty

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‘Fortune’s finger to sound what stop she pease’

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When coming up with the play plan to see is Claudius is guilty Hamlet still says it is a … ghost

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‘damned ghost’

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Hamlet’s sexual mocking of Ophelia

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‘Lady, shall I sleep in your lap’

do you think I meant country matters’ - slang for vagina

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Hamlet’s time comment before the play

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‘my father died within’s two hours’ but Ophelia says ‘nay it’s twice two months’ ( 4 months)

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Hamlet obsesses over the remarriage

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‘you are the queen, your husbands brothers wife’

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Hamlet is instinctive for the first time in killing Polonius

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‘How now a rat? Dead for a ducat, dead’

25
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Dramatic reveal to Gertrude about Claudius

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‘A bloody deed? Almost as bad good mother, as kill a king and marry with his brother’

26
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Graphic imagery, disgusted at Gertrude’s sexuality

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‘In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, stewed in corruption, honeying and making love’

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Hamlet reveals to Gertrude he is not mad

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‘ecstasy?’, ‘bring me to the test’

28
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imagery of disease and plague everywhere, Hamnet died of plague

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‘In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, stewed in corruption, honeying and making love’

29
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does not want Gertrude to sleep with Claudius

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‘Good night - but go not to my uncle’s bed’

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Hamlet is sorry for killing Polonius but believes it was a job sent by heaven

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‘I do repent; but heaven hath pleased it so’

31
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Famous cruel kind quote

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‘I must be cruel only to be kind’

32
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Hamlet tells Gertrude to not let Claudius tempt her to bed

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‘not this by no means that I bid you do let the bloat king tempt you again to bed’

33
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he recognises the skull used to be a body, sanctity of human life, contrasts his earlier reaction to Polonius’ body

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‘The skull had a tongue in it and could sing once’

‘Alas poor Yorick I knew him’

34
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means King, first time he acknowledges his rightful role, accepts his identity, bold, confident

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‘This is I Hamlet the Dane’

35
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believes he loved Ophelia more than anyone

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‘I loved Ophelia’

36
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metaphor about fate, can influence some things but ultimately fate will win

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‘There’s a divinity that shapes our end, rough hew them how we will’

37
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he is no longer overthinking and thinks what he is doing is right, unforgiving towards R + G

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‘They are not near my conscience’

38
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morally it is right that Hamlet kills him, feels he has religious backing in killing Claudius

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‘It’s not perfect conscience to quit him with this arm’

39
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feels guilty and intends to be nice towards Laertes

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‘That to Laertes I forgot myself’

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has suspicions about the fight but agrees to join anyway, brave, is it stoic fatalism, knows that everyone dies at some point, is it serenity in the face of death, Hamlet is ready to die, no one has any automany over their death but he wants some control

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‘Let be’

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Hamlet praises Laertes’ sword skills, dishonesty, false flattery, foils as characters

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‘I’ll be your foil Laertes’

42
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makes Fortinbras king

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‘Oh Fortinbras he has my dying voice’

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Final words

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‘The rest is silence’

44
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Gertrude comments on how Hamlet has changed

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‘My too much changed son’

45
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Polonius believes Ophelia’s rejection has caused Hamlet to become mad

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‘Into madness wherein now he vares’

46
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Hamlet expresses his madness is an act and he only sometimes appears mad

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‘I am but mad north north west. When wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw’

47
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Name for his madness

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. ‘Antic disposition’

. ‘Hamlet’s transformation’

48
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What Hamlet does when he affrighted Ophelia

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had: ‘his doublet all unbraced’, ‘no hat upon his head’, ‘his stockings fouled’, ‘pale as his shirt’, ‘look so piteous in purport as if he had been loosed out of hell’

A Level English Literauture Britain (19 decks)

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