Key Quotes-Hamlet Flashcards
Act 1 scene 2 first soliloquy
“O that this too too sold flesh should melt”- suicide-nihilism
Act 1 scene 5- deception
“To our an antic disposition on”- framed madness
Act 1 scene 5- misogyny
“O most pernicious women!”
Act 2 scene 2- isolation
“Denmark’s a prison”
“I know not, lost all my mirth”
Act 2 scene 2- play
“The plays the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king”- half rhyme
Act 3 scene 1- suicide soliloquy
“Whether ‘‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles”
Act 3 scene 4- polonius death quote
“Thou wretched,rash,intruding fool”
Act 4 scene 4- evil hammy soliloquy
“My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth”
Act 3 scene 2- ready to take action
“Now could I drink hot blood”
Act 5 scene 2- inevitable death quote
“If it be now, ‘it’s not to come. If it be not come, it will be now”.
Based on a quote from the Bible- how humans need to trust God
Act 5 scene 2- hamlets final lines
“The rest is silence”
Idea that there is no afterlife?
