Religion, Honour and Revenge - Hamlet Flashcards
Final religious imagery - Horatio 5:2
‘and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest’
Fate - Hamlet 5:2
‘there’s a divinity that shapes our ends’
Pressure for vengeance - Ghost 1:5
‘if thou hast nature in thee bear in not’
Honour - Hamlet 2:2
‘what a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties’
Predestination - Hamlet 5:2
‘that was heaven ordinant’
Demand for revenge - Ghost 1:5
‘revenge this foul and most unnatural murder’
Protestant view of the Ghost - Hamlet 1:4
‘be thou a spirit of health or a goblin damned’
Psychological act of vengeance - Hamlet 2:2
‘the play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King’
Symbolism of the Ghost - Horatio 1:1
‘this bodes some strange eruption to our state’
Dishonour and prayer - Claudius 3:3
‘my words fly up, my thought remain below; words without thought never to heaven go’
Purgatory and avenging - Ghost 1:5
‘till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purg’d away’
Conflict of religion and revenge - Hamlet 3:3
‘I, his sole son, do the same villain send to heaven’
Fate and revenge - Hamlet 1:5
‘the time is out of joint. O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right’
