Hamlet Quotes WIP Flashcards
Grief - woe
“throw to earth this unprevailing woe”
Struggle - sea
“To take arms against a sea of troubles”
Death - attitudes antithesis
“consummation devoutly to be wish’d” “dread”
Grief - duties
“To give these mourning duties to your father”
Antithesis - cruelty
“I must be cruel only to be kind”
Playing vs reality - blank verse
“The lady shall say her mind freely/Or the blank verse shall halt for it”
Death - sleep
“to die, to sleep, to sleep perchance to dream”
Playing vs reality - guilt
“I have heard that guilty creates sitting at a play… have proclaimed their malefactions”
Uncertainty and Antithesis - ghost
“a spirit of health or goblin damn’d” “airs from heaven or blasts from hell”
Uncertainty - my mystery
“You would pluck out the heart of my mystery”
Antithesis - air
“this most excellent canopy the air” “foul and pestilent congregation of vapours”
Playing vs reality - speech
“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you”
Playing vs reality - face
“God hath given you one face and you make yourself another”
Antithesis - man
“beauty of the world, the paragon of animals” “a quintessence of dust”
Playing vs reality - actions
“For they are actions that a man might play”
Playing vs reality and delay - motive
“What would he do had he the motive and the cue of passion that I have”
Grief - fault
“Fie! ‘tis a fault to heaven,/A fault against the seat, a fault to nature, To reason most absurd”
Playing vs reality - seems
“Seems, madam! nay it is, I know not ‘seems’”
Antithesis - earth
“This goodly frame, the earth” “sterile promontory”
Playing vs reality and delay - Pyrrhus
“And like a neutral to his will and matter,/ Did nothing.”
Grief - black clothes
“cast they nighted colour off”
Revenge - cursed spite
“O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right”
The search for one’s place in the world - Hamlet’s critical nature of himself
“O what a rogue and peasant slave am I”
Grief - ceremony
“What ceremony else? What ceremony else?
Death - flesh
“O that this too too solid flesh would melt,/Thaw and resolve itself into a dew”
The search for one’s place in the world - Hamlet finding his place in the world
“The is I,/Hamlet the Dane”
Playing vs reality - smile
“that one may smile and smile and be a villain”
