HAMLET QUOTES Flashcards

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HAMLET- First Line 1.2

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“A little more than kin and less than kind”

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Hamlet- about villainy 1.5

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“That one will smile and smile and be a villain”

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Claudius- anxiety of his actions

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“Myth in marriage and death in funeral”

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Description on Gertrude

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“Virtuous Queen”

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Claudius- 1.2 on Gertrude

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“sometime sister now our queen”

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Gertrude- on hamlets grief, unsympathetic- 1.2

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“thy nighted colour”

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Ghost- 3.4

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“revenge this foul and most natural murder”
“eternal blazon”of “flesh and blood”- family
“seeming virtuous queen”

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Polonius -1.3 on hamlet madness

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“what is it Ophelia what has he said to you ?”

“do not believe is vows”

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Polonius 1.3 Derrogative to Ophelia

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“Affection pooh! you speak like a green girl”
“I do not know my lord what I should think”
“I shall obey my lord “

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3.1-HAMLET *****

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“To sleep perchance to dream”
“whips and scorns of time”-hyperbolic/violent imagery
“conscience doth make cowards”
“currents turn awry”

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Gertrude 3.4 - closet scene

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“Hamlet thou hast thy father most offended”
“Thou wilt not murder me” - uncertainty
“O me what hast thou done”

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Hamlet 3.4- closet scene

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"”with a wicked tongue”
“your husbands brothers wife” - incest/corruption

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5.1 about Ophelia

+ 5.1 Hamlets raw visual emotions of disgust towards Yorik

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“Is she to be buried in a christian burial?”
“I loved ophelia 40 thousand brothers”

“Alas poor York, I knew him Horatio”
“Alexander died”
“reterneth to dust” “dead and turned to clay”
“my gorge rises from it”

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5.2 conscience

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“Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all”

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1.4 corruption

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“Something rotten is in the state of Denmark”

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Hamlet on dumb show- shows search for revenge …. scene?

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“The plays the thing where in ill catch the conscience of the king” 2.2

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  1. Gertrude watching Hamlet
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“Hamlet is as mad as eh see and wind”

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Claudius monologue…. what act and scene is it

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3.3 
"O my offence is rank"
"To wash it white as snow"
"May one be pardoned and retain the offence" -- rhetorical inner questioning shift/ guilt
"Help angels" 
"He kneels"
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Claudius Villan

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4.4- “Follow her close, give her good watch”

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Hamlet revenge in blood … scene ?

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4.3- “for like hectic in my blood rages”

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Hamlet feigning madness and anger to Claudius …. scene?

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“ill put an antic disposition on” 1.5
“O villain villain smiling damned villain”
“smile and be a villain”

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KEY SOLILOQUIES - 1.2

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“O that this too too solid flesh would mely”
“self slaughter”
“rank and gross in nature”
“my fathers brother but no more like my father”
“she married o most wicked speed”

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KEY SOLILOQUIES -2.2

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"O what a rogue and peasant slave am I!"
"Am I a coward?"
"I'll observe his looks" --- servalliance 
"The plays the thing..." meta-theatre 
"Guilt creatures sitting at a play"
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KEY SOLILIOQUIE- 3.1

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"To be or not to be that is the question"
"pangs of despised love"
"undiscovered country"
"conscience doth"
"The fair ophelia"
"be all my sins remembered"
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3.1 Hamlet opressing Ophelia + ophelia quotes

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“Get the too a nunnery”

0- “I was more decided”

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KEY SOLILOQUIE- 3.3

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"Now ill do it"
"A villain kills my father"
"Then trip him so his heels may trip at heaven"
"purging of his soul"
"tis heavy with him "
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KEY SOLILOQUIE 4.4

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“How all occasions do inform against me”
“spur my dull revenge”
““father killed a mother stained”
*“My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worse”

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Hamlets final lines 5.2

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“Let be” – all is over direct contrast from 2b or not 2b
“tell my story”
“all the rest is silent”

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Laertes final line– a ending is reached despite Shakespeare’s slow pace of the tragedy- normally fast

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“he is justly served”