Instability - Hamlet Quotes Flashcards
Unusual ceremonies - Hamlet 1:2
‘the funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables’
Unsuccessful prayer - Claudius 3:3
‘My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go’
Unnatural incest - Hamlet 1:2
‘such dexterity to incestuous sheets’
Perversion of the Royal Family - Ghost 1:5
‘Let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned incest’
Claudius’ impact on the family - Hamlet 5:2
‘he that hath killed my King and whored my mother’
Foreshadowing ghost (volcano) - Horatio 1:1
‘this bodes some strange eruption to our state’
Foreshadowing ghost - Horatio 1:1
‘the live precurse of fear’d events’
Corruption and decay - Marcellus 1:4
‘something is rotten in the state of Denmark’
Revenge request - Ghost 1:5
‘revenge this foul and most unnatural murder’
Subversion of natural order 1:5
‘the serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown’
Reason for suicide - Gertrude 4:7
‘as one incapable of her own distress’
Ophelia’s madness - Laertes 4:5
’ a document in madness’
Link between death and madness - Laertes 4:5
‘is’t possible a young maid’s wits should bee as mortal as an old man’s life?’
Revenge but not the main one - Laertes 4:5
‘I’ll be revenged most thoroughly for my father’
Renouncing loyalty - Laertes 4:5
‘to hell allegiance’
