Quotes Act (III) Scene (i) Flashcards

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Claudius suddenly becomes a little more human and a lot guiltier

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How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience! O heavy burden !

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Hamlet ponders the nature of existence

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The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune… A sea of troubles

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Hamlet recognises the essential fear at the core of our existence

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But that dread of something after death the undiscovered country

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Hamlet’s dismissal of ophelia reflects his disillusionment with the world

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Get thee to a nunnery

Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?

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Hamlets painful self-awareness

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Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all

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Claudius is now sure hamlet is great threat to him

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There’s something in his soul, o’er which his melancholy sits on brood and I do doubt the hatch and the disclose will be some danger

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Claudius will get rid of Hamlet

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He shall with speed to England for the demand of our neglected tribute

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