quotes Flashcards
ominous foreshadowing
‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.’
‘This bodes some strange eruption to our state.’
P fatherly advice to Laertes
‘This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.’
new and old regimes
‘So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr’
Horatio: ‘I saw him once; he was a goodly king.’
Hamlet: ‘He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.’
‘Hyperion’s curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury’
‘A murderer and a villain’ H to G
Horatio’s skepticism
‘Horatio says ‘tis but our fantasy and will not let belief take hold of him’ - Marcellus
‘’Twill not appear’
‘Before my God, I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes’
descriptions of the ghost
‘This thing’
‘In the same figure as the King that’s dead’ - Bernardo
‘Most like. It harrows me with fear and wonder’ - Horatio
‘It stalks away’
‘Such was the very armour he had on when he the ambitious Norway combated’
incest
‘Our sometime sister, now our queen’
C: ‘But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,–’
‘A little more than kin, and less than kind.’
‘Most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!’ Hamlet
ghost: ‘Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest.’
‘that incestuous, that adulterate beast’
‘Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, Drink off this potion. Is thy union here? Follow my mother [King Claudius dies]’
claudius’s first speech
‘With an auspicious and a dropping eye, With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole’
act i Hamlet’s grief
‘How is it that the clouds still hang on you?’
‘Cast thy nighted colour off’ - he wears an ‘inky cloak’
‘Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust’
‘All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.’
‘I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe’
act i kings response to Hamlet’s grief
‘’Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, To give these mourning duties to your father’
‘Your father lost a father’
‘The survivor bound in filial obligation for some term’
‘’Tis unmanly grief’
act i hamlet’s suicidal ideation
‘That the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter!’
‘How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world!’
act i denmark
‘’Tis an unweeded garden’
misogyny
‘within a month– Let me not think on’t–Frailty, thy name is woman!’
‘he that hath killed the king and whored my mother’
‘lady, shall I lie in your lap?’
‘the rank sweat of thy enseamed bed, stew’d in corruption’
speed of the marriage
‘I came to see your father’s funeral’ ‘I think it was to see my mother’s wedding’ ‘Indeed, my lord, it follow’d hard upon’
‘the funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables’
laertes’s advice to ophelia
‘For Hamlet and the trifling of his favour, Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.’
‘His greatness weigh’d, his will is not his own; For he himself is subject to his birth: He may not, as unvalued persons do, Carve for himself; for on his choice depends The safety and health of this whole state’
‘Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain, If with too credent ear you list his songs, Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open To his unmaster’d importunity’
laertes’s hypocrisy
‘Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whiles, like a puff’d and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede.’
Polonius’s convo w Ophelia
‘Green girl’ ‘think yourself a baby’
‘Springes to catch woodcocks’
‘I shall obey, my lord’
hamlet ‘custom’
‘It is a custom More honour’d in the breach than the observance’
hamartia
‘these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature’s livery, or fortune’s star,– Their virtues else–be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo– Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault’
immortal soul
‘I do not set my life at a pin’s fee; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?’
nature of the ghost
‘Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com’st in such a questionable shape’
Horatio: ‘What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o’er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness?’
revenge quest
‘If thou didst ever thy dear father love […] Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.’
‘The serpent that did sting thy father’s life Now wears his crown’
H: ‘thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain’
‘The time is out of joint: O cursed spite That ever I was born to set it right!’
‘from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!’
‘bloody, bawdy villain! Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain! O, vengeance!’
R&G
‘Your visitation shall receive such thanks As fits a king’s remembrance’
‘You were sent for; and there is a kind of confession in your looks which your modesties have not craft enough to colour: I know the good king and queen have sent for you.’
R: ‘My lord, you once did love me.’
‘do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you cannot play upon me’
