Hamlet Quotes Flashcards

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

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A little more than kin and less than kind

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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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Hamlet soliloquy on suicide

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O, that this too too solid flesh would melt

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Hamlet soliloquy, Gertrude because she is weak

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Frailty thy name is woman

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The chain of being is being disturbed-Marcellus

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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

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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
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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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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
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Hamlets internal struggle

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But break my heart for I must hold my tongue

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14
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Hamlet abuses Ophelia verbally

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Get these to a nunnery

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15
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The clowns talk about Ophelia burial

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Is she to be buried in a Christian burial

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16
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Clowns making fun of hamlet

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He that is mad and sent into England

17
Q

Bernado first line

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Who’s there

18
Q

Hamlet tells this to Horatio when dying

A

The rest is silence

19
Q

Hamlet suicide on earth

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The earth seems to me a sterile promontory

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Q

Hamlet betrayal from his mother

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My uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived

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Q

Polonius truth vs lie about Ophelia

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This is the very ecstasy of love

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Q

Gertrude on marriage and death

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His fathers death and our over hasty marriage

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Hamlets self doubt

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Am I a coward

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Q

Hamlet truth about Denmark

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Denmark is a prison

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Hamlet using daggers
I will speak daggers but use none
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The ghosts revenge (OKH)
Revenge his most foul and unnatural murder
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Hamlet Religious need of defence
Angels and ministers of grace defend us
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Ophelia obeying
I shall obey my lord
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Hamlets love for Ophelia
I loved Ophelia
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Gertrude’s description of Ophelia death
Mermaid-like
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