Hamlet's view Flashcards
How Gertrude should be acting towards OH’s death
“Like Niobe, all tears”
Betraying and emotionless in their ability to move on quickly
“incestuous sheets”
“wicked speed”
“the funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables”
“’tis brief my lord…” “as woman’s love” Retort to Ophelia
“Mother, you have my father much offended”
WOMAN! - G and O
“Frailty, thy name is Woman”
“O most pernicious woman.”
“Get thee to a nunnery”
Once loved
“i did love you once”
Women turn men into monsters
“Wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them”
Women as deceptive characters
“I have heard of your paintings too,God has given you one face and you paint yourself another”
“you jig, you amble, and you lisp, you nickname God’s creatures”
Must restrain from killing G
“I will speak daggers to her, but i shall use none”
Crudeness in his treatment of Ophelia during the Mousetrap – antic disposition
“did you think i meant country matters?”
Hecuba’s cry
‘The instant burst of clamour that she made… Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven, And passion in the gods.’
- Idea reaction for G to H?
View of himself like a woman
‘like a whore unpack my heart with words’
‘unpregnant of my cause’
‘No more than I to Hercules’
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‘It is but foolery, but it is such a kind of gaingiving as would perhaps trouble a woman.’
Laertes and emotions
‘When these are gone, the women will be out.’
He will cry when on his own
Claudius’ reaction to H’s emotion
‘Tis unmanly grief’
Hamlet to R and G about Fate
Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of her favours?
Hamlet likening himself to Hercules
“no more than I to Hercules
Hamlet likening fortune and fate to a whore.
“In the secret parts of Fortune, O most true she is a strumpet.”
