Hamlet - Quotes Flashcards

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Hamlet expresses his extreme grief

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But I have that within which passes show; these but the trappings and the suits of woe

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Hamlet comments on his relationship with Claudius A1S2

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A little more than kin, and less than kind

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Hamlet’s first soliloquy - expresses desire to die

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O! That this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew

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Hamlet comments on marriage of Claudius and Gertrude

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O! Most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not, nor it cannot come to good

The funeral bak’d meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables

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Concerns for Denmark are evident after the ghost’s appearance

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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

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Ghosts message to Hamlet

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Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder

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Hamlet curses his fate to seek revenge

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O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

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Ophelia’s harrowing description of hamlet’s physical appearance

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Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbrac’d; no hat upon his head

And with a look so piteous in purport as if he had been loosed out of hell to speak of horrors

He seemed to find his way without his eyes

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Claudius & Gertrude description of hamlet’s madness

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C: hamlet’s transformation

G: my too much changed son

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Polonius questions Hamlet’s madness

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Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t

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Hamlet reveals his ‘occasional’ madness

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I am mad but north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw

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Hamlet’s plan to kill the King

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The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King

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13
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Hamlet is revealed as an existential thinker

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To be, or not to be: that is the question: whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?

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Hamlet’s hateful comment to Ophelia

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Get thee to a nunnery

Breeder of sinners

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Ophelia mourns her relationship with Hamlet

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O! Woe is me, to have seen what I have seen, see what I see

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The King expresses his fear over what hamlet’s madness could mean for him

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Madness in great ones must not unwatch’d go

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Hamlet commits to taking action now he has proof

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Now l could drink hot blood, and do such bitter business as the day would quake to look on

Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none (about Gertrude)

From this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth

18
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Hamlet to Polonius after he murders him

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Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool

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Hamlet acknowledges his sanity to Gertrude

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That I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft

It is not madness that I have utter’d

20
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Claudius explains his plan to kill Hamlet

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By letters conjuring to that effect, the present death of Hamlet. Do it, England; for like the hectic in my blood he rages, and thou must cure me

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In a soliloquy, Hamlet tries to motivate himself, he doesn’t understand his procrastination as he has ample motive

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How stand I then, that have a father kill’d, a mother stain’d, excitements of my reason and my blood, and let all sleep

O! From this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!

22
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Death of Ophelia

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As one incapable of her own distress

Her death was doubtful (-Priest at funeral)

23
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Hamlet’s statement before killing Claudius

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He that hath kill’d my king and whor’d my mother

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Hamlet acknowledges his madness as the reason for his fatal actions

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Who does it then? His madness

His madness is poor hamlet’s enemy

25
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The opening question

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Who’s there?

  • Bernardo
26
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Hamlet promises to act with haste when carrying out his revenge

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With wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love

27
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Hamlet’s obsessive introspection thwarts his revenge plans

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Thinking too precisely on th’ event

Am I a coward?
(Hamlet asks himself)

28
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Hamlet acknowledges the ghost is not a reliable source

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The spirit that I have seen may be a devil

29
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After the play, Hamlet prepares to act

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From this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth

30
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Hamlet justifies not killing Claudius during the Prayer Scene

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That his soul may be as damn and black as hell whereto it goes

31
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The logical reasons why Hamlet should kill Claudius

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He that hath kill’d my king and whor’d my mother

32
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Hamlet seizes his chance at revenge in the final scene

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Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, drink of this potion

33
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Hamlet admits his selective madness

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I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft
(To Gertrude)

I am but mad north-north-west
(To R&G)

34
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Gertrude is seen as dependent on old hamlet

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She would hang on him as if increase of appetite had grown by what it fed on

35
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Hamlets general criticism of women

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God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another

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Hamlets advice to Ophelia (Nunnery Scene)

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Get thee to a nunnery

Why wouls’t thou be a breeder of sinners?

Marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them

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Laertes at Ophelia’s graveside

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From her fair and unpolluted flesh may violets spring

Rose of May