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Claudius describes gertrude as

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Th’imperial jointress to this warlike state

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Gertrude asks hamlet to

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Cast thy nighted colour off and let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark

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Gertrude’s dependency on Old king Hamlet

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Why she would hang on him

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Gertrude asks Hamlet why he is so upset

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Why seems it so particular with thee

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Polonius and Laertes believe Hamlets relationship with Ophelia is

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un meaningful

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Polonious to Ophelia on Hamlet

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You speak like a green girl

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Ophelia as weak minded

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I do not know my lord what i should think

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Hamlet on women

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Frailty thy name is woman !

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Hamlet on Gertrude’s brevity of grieving

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O god a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourned longer

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Hamlet on Gertrude and Claudius Oer hasty marriage

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Most wicked speed - incestuous sheets

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Claudius on Hamlets behaviour

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Dangerous and turbulent lunacy

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Hamlet to Ophelia Nunnery scene

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Get thee to a nunnery

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Hamlet on Ophelias relationship with men

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Wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them

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Ophelia on Hamlets madness

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What a noble mind is here oerthrown
O heavenly powers restore him

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Hamlet on Ophelias makeup

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God hath given you one face and you make yourself another

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Hamlet to Gertrude closet scene

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You go not till i set you up a glass where you may see the inmost part of you

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Gertrude on Hamlets honesty

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Thou turnest mine eyes into my very soul and there i see such black and grained spots

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Gertrude when she thinks Hamlet is going to murder her

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Thou wilt not murder me

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Hamlets description of his fathers murder

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Foul and most unnatural murder
Bloody deed

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Hamlet on Gertrude and Claudius’ love making

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Rank sweat of an en seamed bed stewed in corruption honeying and making love over the nasty sty

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Gertrude promising to keep Hamlets secret

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I have no life to breathe what thou hast said to me

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Gertrude’s broken heart

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Thou hast cleft my heart in twain

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Laertes wishes violets would spring from Ophelias

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Fair and unpolluted flesh

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Gertrude on Ophelia and Hamlet

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I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlets wife

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Gertrude on Ophelias funeral flowers
Bride bed to have decked sweet maid and not have strewed thy grave
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Hamlet on his love for ophelia
I loved Ophelia. 40 thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum
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Polonius on the lasting of Ophelia and Gertrude’s relationship
Forward not permanent sweet not lasting
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Laertes on Hamlets birth
His will is not his own for he himself is subject to his birth
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Gertrude to Ophelia on Hamlets madness
I do wish that your good beauties be the happy cause of Hamlets wildness
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Hamlet on Claudius
Smiling damned villain
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Hamlet on Denmarks corruption
An unweeded garden
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Hamlet on Claudius
This canker of our nature
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The ghost on Gertrude
Most seeming virtuous queen
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Hamlet on his sadness
I know not seems… Trappings and suits of woe
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Polonius advice to laertes
Give every man thine ear but few thy voice
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Hamlet on Claudius
Incestuous adulterate beast
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Claudius to Laertes on his grieving
Are you like the painting of a sorrow a face without a heart
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Hamlet after slaying polonius
Thou wretched rash intruding fool
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Hamlet on polonius
“Tedious old fools” “Foolish praving knave”
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Ghosts second visit to hamlet
This visitation is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose
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Hamlet on the corruption of the danish court
Rank corruption… infects unseen
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Claudius speaking to England
Do it England for like the hectic in my blood he rages and thou must cure me
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Hamlet on his overthinking
Or some craven scruple of thinking too precisely on th event
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Hamlet after seeing Fortinbras
How stand I then that have a father killed a mother stained, excitements of my reason and my blood and let all sleep
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Hamlet on his revenge after seeing fortinbras
Oh from this time forth my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth
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Gertrude’s guilt
So full of artless jealousy is guilt it spills itself in fearing to be spilt
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Claudius on Ophelia’s madness
Poor Ophelia divided from herself and her fair judgment
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Laertes on his fathers death
That drop of blood that’s calm proclaims me bastard I’ll be revenged most thoroughly for my father
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Claudius to Laertes on polonius death
I am guiltless of your fathers death
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Claudius on Hamlets popularity
The great love the general gender bare him He is loved of the distracted multitude
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Hamlet on R&G
They are not near my conscience I know the good king and queen have sent for you
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Claudius guilt
O my offence is rank it smells to heaven
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Claudius on madness in great ones
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go
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Claudius conscience after polonius speech
How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience O heavy burden
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Claudius in the prayer scene
Since I am still possessed of the effects for which I did the murder My crown mine own ambition and my queen
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Ghost to hamlet on King Hamlets death
The serpent that did sting thy fathers life now wears his crown
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Hamlet on Claudius deeds- new found motivation
He that hath killed my king and whored my mother Popped in between the election and my hopes Thrown out his angle for my proper life And with such cozenage
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Laertes conscience
And yet it is almost against my conscience Exchange forgiveness with me noble hamlet Mine and my fathers death come not upon thee nor thine on me
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Hamlet kills Claudius
Here thou incestuous murderous damned Dane drink off this potion
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Hamlet on conscience
Thus conscience makes cowards of us all
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Hamlet after witnesses Claudius confession
Now could I drink hot blood
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Hamlet to Gertrude on his madness
I essentially am not in madness but mad in craft
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Gertrude on Hamlets madness
Mad as the sea and wind when both contend

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