Hamlet - Scene Quotes Act 2 Flashcards
’ What was I about to say?’
Polonius
S1
His mind is used for advising - another person in court not fulfiling role
Usually used comedically - Icke 2017 portrayed as dementia whereas Branagh 1996 he has a prostitute
‘ Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth’
Polonius
S1
How words and performance can be used to manipulate - potential link to Claudius’ style of rule using diplomacy and politics
’ As if he had been loosed out of hell to speak of horrors ‘
Ophelia
SI
AS hamlet has encountered the ghost he may be desperate for comfort ( Branagh they already have an established sexual relationship and so trusts her)
Performative madness which is guaranteed to get back to Claudius
’ Hamlet’s transformation… Th’ exterior nor the inward man ‘
Claudius
S1
Euphemisms for madness
Discussion of external appearance and internal true intentions
’ Our presence and our practices pleasant and helpful to him ‘
Guildenstern
S1
Plosive alliteration - abrupt and performative
Sycophants &Nepotism
’ His father’s death and our o’erhasty marriage ‘
Gertrude
S2
Ownership of guilt & regret of the speed of their marriage ( Branagh - flashbacks show an affair before hamlets death)
’ In her duty and obedience, mark, hath given me this ‘
Polonius
s2
Ophelia as the archetype of the ideal woman and is stripped of privacy
’ Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t ‘
Polonius
S2
The first to question his madness is his first victim
’ In the secret parts of fortune? O, most true! She is a strumpet’
Hamlet
S2
Personifies an abstract noun in order to use sexual objectification as humour
’ Doomsday…. Prison’
Hamlet
S2
Hamlet is already subconsciously aware of his own damnation
’ For there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so ‘
Hamlet
S2
His own hamartia of indecision and philosophising
’ Obligation of our ever- preserved love ‘
Hamlet
S2
Mirrors old hamlet’s language - emotional manipulation
Hamlet’s soliloquy
‘O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!’
‘Unpregnant of my cause’
‘ plucks off my beard’
‘ bloody, bawdy villain! Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!’
‘ heaven and hell, must like a whore unpack my heart with words’
‘ before mine uncle. I’ll observe his looks’
‘ The plays the thing wherein i’ll catch the conscience of the king’
S2
- intersection, fragmented language to express self deprivation and evolve pity due to his failure to commit
- emasculates himself as he compares his weak yet real resolve to the players strong yet fabricated one
- stripped of his masculinity
- malcontent, antagonises Claudius to victimise himself
- the conflict using religious imagery to represent the conflict between his duty as an avenging son and the Damnation is will cause, emasculation, his preference for thought over action
- trying to prove Claudius guilty by gaining truth out of performance snows his own reliance on false truths
- rhyming couplet made a decision - metatheatre ‘holds a mirror up to nature’
