Hamlet Quotes Flashcards

1
Q

Hamlet Soliloquy Claudius is his uncle and now his father, but Hamlet doesn’t think highly of him

A

A little more than kin and less than kind

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2
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Hamlet soliloquy on suicide

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O, that this too too solid flesh would melt

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3
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Hamlet soliloquy on suicide

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O, that this too too solid flesh would melt

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4
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Hamlet soliloquy, Gertrude because she is weak

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Frailty thy name is woman

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5
Q

The chain of being is being disturbed-Marcellus

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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

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6
Q

Hamlets plan to stage the play

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The plays the thing, wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king

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7
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Hamlet discussing whether to exist or not

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To be or not to be that is the question

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8
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Ophelia mourns hamlets downfall

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Oh what noble mind is here overthrown

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9
Q

Polonius on hamlets madness

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Though this be madness yet there is method in it

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10
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Gertrude on death

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All that lives must die

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11
Q

Gertrude’s response to the player Queen

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The lady doth protests too much methinks

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12
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Claudius admits to murdering his brother

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Oh my offence is rank, it smells to heaven

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13
Q

Hamlets internal struggle

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But break my heart for I must hold my tongue

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14
Q

Hamlet abuses Ophelia verbally

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Get these to a nunnery

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15
Q

The clowns talk about Ophelia burial

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Is she to be buried in a Christian burial when she will fully seeks her own salvation

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16
Q

Clowns making fun of hamlet

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He that is mad and sent into England

17
Q

Hamlets first line

A

Who’s there

18
Q

Hamlet tells this to Horatio when dying

A

The rest is silence

19
Q

Hamlet suicide on earth

A

The earth seems to me a sterile promontory

20
Q

Hamlet betrayal from his mother

A

My uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived

21
Q

Polonius truth vs lie about Ophelia

A

This is the very ecstasy of love

22
Q

Gertrude on marriage and death

A

His fathers death and our over hasty marriage

23
Q

Hamlets self doubt

A

Am I a coward

24
Q

Hamlet truth about Denmark

A

Denmark is a prison

25
Q

Hamlet using daggers

A

I will speak daggers but use none

26
Q

The ghosts revenge (OKH)

A

Revenge his most foul and unnatural murder

27
Q

Hamlet Religious need of defence

A

Angels and ministers of grace defend us

28
Q

Ophelia obeying

A

I shall obey my lord

29
Q

Hamlets love for Ophelia

A

I loved Ophelia

30
Q

Gertrude’s description of Ophelia death

A

Mermaid-like