Hamlet - Quotes Flashcards
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Madness - Appearance Vs Reality
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- “I must be cruel, only to be kind.”
- “That I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft.”
- “To define true madness, what is’t but to be nothing else but mad?”
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Madness - Disease
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- Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.”
- Denmark’s a prison
- There is something rotten in the state of Denmark
- There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow
- The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that was ever born to make it right
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Revenge - Family Honour
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- Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder
- Haste me to know’t, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge
- A villain kills my father; and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven
- “My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth.”
4
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Revenge - Morality
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- “Give me that man that is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him in my heart’s core, ay, in my heart of heart.”
- “Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.”
- “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
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Disease - of the Mind
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- Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.”
- To define true madness, what is’t but to be nothing else but mad?
- “That I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft.”
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Disease - of the State
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- Denmark’s a prison
- There is something rotten in the state of Denmark
- There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow
- The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that was ever born to make it right
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Family Honour - Revenge
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- Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder
- Haste me to know’t, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge
- A villain kills my father; and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven
- “My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth.”
8
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Family Honour - Misogyny
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- Then weigh what loss your honor may sustain
- Tender yourself more dearly,
- Let me wring your heart
- Good night—but go not to mine uncle’s bed. Assume a virtue, if you have it not
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Devine right of King - Revenge
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- A villain kills my father; and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven
- Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder
- “And am I then revenged, to take him in the purging of his soul, when he is fit and seasoned for his passage?”
10
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Devine right of King - Disease
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- To define true madness, what is’t but to be nothing else but mad?
- Denmark’s a prison
- There is something rotten in the state of Denmark
- There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow
- The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that was ever born to make it right
11
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Appearance Vs Reality - Hamlets feigned madness
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-“Seems, madam? Nay, it is. I know not ‘seems’.”
- “One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”
- “I must be cruel, only to be kind.”
- “That I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft.”
- Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.”
12
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Appearance Vs Reality - Play within a play
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- The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.
- The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
- Your majesty, and we that have free souls, it touches us not
12
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Gender Roles - Misogyny
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- Of impious stubbornness; ‘tis unmanly grief
- Frailty, thy name is Woman
- God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another
- Tender yourself more dearly,
- Let me wring your heart
- Good night—but go not to mine uncle’s bed. Assume a virtue, if you have it not
12
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Gender Roles - Elizabethan Values
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- “Give me that man that is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him in my heart’s core, ay, in my heart of heart.”
- “A little more than kin, and less than kind.”
- “What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty!”
- Incestuous sheets
13
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Tragic Hero - Vacillation
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- To be, or not to be: that is the question.”
- “And am I then revenged, to take him in the purging of his soul, when he is fit and seasoned for his passage?”
- A thought which, quarter’d, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say ‘This thing’s to do;’ Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do’t.
