Key Quotations - Gertrude Flashcards
1
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Gertrude describing Ophelia’s death
A
‘Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread side, and mermaidlike’
2
Q
Gertrude telling Hamlet to stop grieving
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‘Thou know’st ‘tis common, all that lives must die,/ Passing through nature to eternity’
3
Q
Blunt, telling Polonius to talk with…
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‘More matter with less art’
4
Q
Ironically says that the Player Queen is pathetic
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“The lady doth protest too much methinks”
5
Q
Horrified by Hamlet’s murder of Polonius
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‘Oh what a rash and bloody deed is this!”
6
Q
Shocked at the accusation of Claudius killing OKH
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‘As kill a king?’
7
Q
Thinking Hamlet is mad after he sees the ghost
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‘This bodiless creation ecstasy Is very cunning in’
8
Q
Defiant in drinking from the poisoned chalice
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‘I will my lord, I pray you pardon me.’
