Quotes from the first soliloquy Flashcards
1
Q
Hamlet has suicidal thoughts and wish that God did not ban suicide
A
O! that this too, too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew; or that the everlasting had not fix’d his canon ‘against self-slaughter
2
Q
Life is so pointless
A
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seems to me all the uses of the world
3
Q
compares claudius to king hamlet
A
So excellent a king, that was to this hyperion to a satyr
4
Q
women are so weak (talking about his mother)
A
Frailty, thy name is woman
5
Q
so quickly that he jumped into bed with gertrude
A
O, most wicked speed to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets