Hamlet Quotes Flashcards
Claudius thinks that Hamlet would have killed him (not polonius) if he had been there -
“It had been so with us, had we been there”
Gertrude says that Hamlet is “Mad as…
…the sea and wind when both contend”
Claudius wants Hamlet imprisoned -
“His liberty is full of threats to us all”
Claudius is worried that they will be blamed for Hamlet’s actions (killing polonius)
“It will be laid to us”
Hamlet is liked by the masses
“He is loved by the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgement, but in their eyes”
Fortinbras is prepared to surrender
“Two thousand should and twenty thousand ducats” for “and eggshell”
Fortinbras is concerned about his name
“We go to gain a little patch of ground, that hath no profit but in the name”
(Declared by captain)
Hamlet can’t act, unlike his players
“What’s Hecuba to him, Or he to Hecuba?”
Hamlet resolves after seeing Fortinbras that he will revenge
“Oh from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth”
At first hamlet wonders if his father’s ghost is
The “devil” in a “pleasing shape”
The ghost makes it clear that learning the truth makes hamlet bound to avenge it
“So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear”
Hamlet says he only exists to revenge
“Ever I was born to set it right”
Hamlet believes in fate
“There’s a divinity that shapes our ends”
Fortinbras is goal orientated and has…
…“divine ambition”
Hamlet only acts on impulse, killing Claudius, once he is dying and has nothing to lose
“I am dead”
Hamlet wishes he could commit suicide
“o that this too too solid flesh would melt”
Hamlet cannot commit suicide
“Or that the everlasting had not fix’d his cannon ‘gainst self slaughter”
Fortinbras is hot headed and driven
“Of unimproved mettle hot and full”
Claudius wants to create kingdom solidarity
“Our whole kingdom to be contracted in one brow of woe”
Gertrude describes hamlets grief as
“Unmanly”
The kings ghost is caught in purgatory
“Doomed for a certain term to walk the night”
The king’s ghost begs to remain in Hamlet’s memory
“Adieu, adieu! Hamlet, remember me! Remember me”
Claudius regrets his actions and refers to Cain and Abel
“O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven / it hath the primal eldest curse upon’t / a brother’s murder”
Hamlet discusses the transience of life with the skull in his hand
“That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once”