Key Quotes- Claudius Flashcards
1
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Claudius patronizing white Act 2 scene 2
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“What it should be,more than his fathers death, that this hath put him so much from th’understanding of himself”
2
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Claudius madness quote act 3 scene 1
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“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go”
3
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Act 3 scene 2- guilty quote
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“Give me some light away!”
4
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Empathy quote- Act 4 scene 7
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“How now sweet Queen”
5
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Exaggeration quote Act 5 scene 1
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“Oh he is mad Laertes”
6
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Act 3 scene 3- another Claudius guilt quote
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“O my offence is rank it smells to heaven; it hath the primal eldest curse upon’t, A brothers murder”- Allusion to the Book of Genesis, where Abel kills his older brother Cain- relates to how Claudius murdered King Hamlet.
