Poison, Corruption and Death - 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 be 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’
Mourning and poison - Claudius 4:5
‘O this is the poison of deep grief’
Death and corruption linking to Polonius - Hamlet 4:3
‘a certain convocation of politic worms are e’en at him’
Polonius’ corrupt character - Hamlet 3:4
‘thou wretched rash, intruding fool’
Foreshadowing - Francisco 1:1
‘sick at heart’
Self awareness and decaying imagery - Claudius 3:3
‘my offence is rank, it smells to heaven’
Imagery of disease in revenge - Hamlet 3:3
‘this physic but prolongs thy sickly days’
Corruption and control of Polonius - Polonius 2:1
‘take it as ‘twere some distant knowledge of him’
Suicide and decay - Hamlet 1:2
‘O that this too, too solid flesh would melt’
Horrible sexual imagery - Hamlet 3:4
‘in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed’
Imagery of decay in humanity - Hamlet 2:2
‘foul and pestilent congregation of vapours’
Death and decay, meaninglessness of status - Hamlet 3:4
‘how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar’
Imagery of weeds and corruption - Hamlet 1:2
'’tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed things rank and gross in nature’
Destruction of humanity in death - Hamlet 5:1
‘Alas, poor Yorick! […] a fellow of infinite jest… Where are your jibes now?’
