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Hamlet Quotes Flashcards

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Corruption - Disease and Death Imagery

Heart

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“I am sick at heart”

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Corruption - Disease and Death Imagery

loathsome

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“vile and loathsome crust”

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Corruption - Disease and Death Imagery

Garden

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“tis an unweeded garden which grows to seed things rank and gross in nature”

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Corruption - Disease and Death Imagery

Denmark

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“something is rotten in the state of Denmark”

Characters draw explict connections between the moral legitimacy of a ruler and the health of the nation. Denmark is frequently described as a physical body made ill by the moral corruption of Claudius and Gertrude.

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Corruption - Disease and Death Imagery

Rank

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“Oh my offence is rank, it smells to heaven”

“Rank” is used multiple times throughout the play to enhance the sense of corruption throughout the play.

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Corruption - Disease and Death Imagery

Claudius to Hamlet

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“the hectic in my blood”

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Corruption - Disease and Death Imagery

Hamlet to Claudius

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“canker of our nature”

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Corruption - Disease and Death Imagery

Caesar

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“Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,/might stop a hole, to keep the wind away”

Gravedigger scene places emphasis on death and decay. Hamlet expresses disgust at the physical corruption that follows death

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Claudius - Corruption

Serpent

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“the serpent that did sting thy fathers life now wears his crown”

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Claudius - Corruption

Mythological

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“Hyperion to a satyr”

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Claudius - Corruption - Appearance vs. Reality

Antithesis falseness (3 quotes)

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“defeated joy”

“with one auspicious and one dropping eye”

“mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage”

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Corruption - Claudius - Revenge

Emotional Blackmail (2 quotes)

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“Laertes was your father dear to you?/ Or are like a painting of a sorrow,/ A face without a heart?”

“If thou didst ever thy dear father love… Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder”

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Appearance vs. Reality - Deception - Polonius

Hypocritical (2 quotes)

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“This above all, to thine own self be true”

“Thou canst not then be false to any man”

Polonius farewelling Laertes after setting a spy on him

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Appearance vs. Reality - Deception

Vows

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“Do not believe his vows for they are brokers,/ Not of that dye, which their investments show”

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Appearance vs. Reality - Deception

Ghost

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“Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned”

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Appearance vs. Reality - Deception

Face

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“God hath given you one face and you make yourself another”

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Appearance vs. Reality - Maddness

Ghost

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The ghost “might deprive your sovereignty of reason, and draw you into madness”

Horatio foreshadows Hamlets response to the ghost

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Appearance vs. Reality - Maddness

Disposition

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“to put an antic disposition on”

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Appearance vs. Reality - Maddness

Wind

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“I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly,/ I know a hawk from a handsaw”

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Appearance vs. Reality - Maddness

Watched

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“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go”

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Appearance vs. Reality - Maddness

Ophelia

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“from herself and her fair judgement”

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Appearance vs. Reality - Theatre and Acting

Queen

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“most seeming virtuous queen”

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Appearance vs. Reality - Theatre and Acting

Seems

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“Seems madam? Nay it is, I know not seems”

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Appearance vs. Reality - Theatre and Acting

Smile

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“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain”

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Appearance vs. Reality - Theatre and Acting

Devil

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“With devotion’s visage,/ And pious action, we do sugar o’ver/ The devil himself”

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Appearance vs. Reality - Theatre and Acting

Mirror

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“hold as ‘twere the mirror up to nature”

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Appearance vs. Reality - Surveillance

Bait

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“Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth”

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Appearance vs. Reality - Surveillance

Find

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“I will find/ where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed/ within the centre”

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