hamlet quotes— women, gender & sexuality Flashcards
Polonius to Laertes leaving for France
“This above all, to thine own self be true”
Polonius not willing to allow Ophelia to trust her own judgment and think for herself
“You do not understand yourself so clearly/ As it behoves my daughter and your honour”
Hamlet makes it clear he is disgusted by his mother’s relationship with Claudius
“whored my mother”
Hamlet shares the same disgust and crudeness about his mother with Ophelia
“Lady, shall I lie in your lap?”
Laertes and Polonius believe that the prince merely wants to take her…
“chaste treasure”
Claudius chides Hamlet for his…
“unmanly grief”
Gertrude shows no understanding of Hamlet’s grief
“all that lives must die”
Hamlet begins to view Ophelia as an icon of purity and claims to love her more than…
“forty thousand brothers”
King Hamlet’s death was…
“foul, strange and unnatural”
King Hamlet’s manliness is linked to his physical strength and bravery, so despite dying from poison, he appears clad in…
“the very armour he had on”
misogynistic comment from Hamlet about the remarriage of Gertrude
“Frailty, thy name is woman!”
manipulative rail Polonius has over Ophelia and her relationship and feelings with Hamlet
“You speak like a green girl/ Unsifted in such perilous circumstance”
Ophelia speaking about the rough handling Hamlet had with her in her chamber
“He took me by the wrist and held me hard”
Hamlet telling Ophelia to abstain from sex and to never have a husband or family
“Get thee to a nunnery”
Hamlet making a sexual remark to Ophelia and proceeding to lay in front of her in demonstration
“That’s a fair thought to lie between maids’ legs”
