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significant character quotes Flashcards

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how does claudius describe the memory of his brothers death

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the memory be green

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what does claudius say insinuating that they should look happily to the future but still mourn the king

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with one auspicious and one dropping eye

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how does cluadious describe hamlets grieving as stubbornness

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to persevere in obstinate condolement is a course of impious stubborness

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what comparison does hamlet use to compare claudius to his brother

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my fathers brother but no more like my father than i to hercules

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how does hamlet compare claudius kingship to the old king

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so excellent a king that was to this hyperion to a satry

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what quote shows the reveal of how the king died

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a serpent stung me.. the serpent that did sting thy fathers life now wears his crown

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what pair of quotes reveals the ghost was right

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the plays the thing wherein ill catch the conscience of the king

the king rises

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what quote shows cluadius’ feeling of guilt

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this cursed hand were thicker than itself with brother blood, is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens to wash it white as snow

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what quote shows claudius has no intention to repent

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‘forgive me my foul murder’? that cannot be since im still possessed of those effects for which i did the murder

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how does hamlet describe claudius to gertrude trying to get her to see clearly

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here is your husband like a mildewed ear blasting his wholesome brother. have you eyes?

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what quote shows hamlets torn soul

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my soul is full of discord and dismay

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how does gertrude tell hamlet to not mourn so much

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good hamlet cast thy nighted colour off… all that lives must die

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what quote shows gertrudes knowledge of hamlet as she correctly guesses whats wrong (and is then dismissed by the men in the room)

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i doubt it is no other but the main: his fathers death and our o’erhasty marriage

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how is gertrude descrubed by claudius

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sweet gertrude

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what quote shows gertudes role as a woman

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i shall obey you

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what quote shows gertrudes realisation of what shes been a part of

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oh hamlet speak no more. thou turn’st my eyes into my very soul and there i see such black and grained spots

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how is gertrude described in relation to claudius

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shes so conjunctive to my life and soul that as the star moves not but in his sphere i could not but by her

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how does ophelia respond to laertes advice

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do not as some ungracious pastors do show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whiles like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads

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how does hamlet address ophelia

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the fair ophelia. – nymph in thy orisons be all my sins remembered

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what does hamlet say to ophelia telling her either to stop whoring around or to not give herself to anyone if it cannot be him

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get thee to a nunnery (repeated thrice in his speech)

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what does hamlet say insinuating ophelia will not be able to escape misrepresentation and false rumours that will ruin her no matter how good she is

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be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny

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how is ohelias madness described

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poor ophelia divided from herself and her fair judgment

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how does gertrude describe ophelias death

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long it could not be till that her garments, heavy with thier drink, pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay to muddy death

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how do we know ophelias death was suicide

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she drowned herself wittingly

25
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what quote shows ophelias favour despite her death

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shards, flints, and pebbles should be thrown on her. yet here she is allowed her virgin crants

26
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how does laertes pay his respects

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lay her i’th’earth and from her fair and unpolluted flesh may violets spring

27
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what advice is laertes given by his dad

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give every man thy ear but few thy voice; take each mans censure but reserve thy judgment

28
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how is laertes described by claudius

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why now you speak like a good child and a true gentleman

29
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what quote shows laertes is thoughtful and not rash

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but my revenge will come

30
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how does laertes react to ophelias death showing his grief and respect

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too much of water hast thou poor ophelia and therefore i forbid my tears

31
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how does hamlet tell laertes he’ll accentuate his qualities

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ill be your foil laertes. in mine ignorance your skill shall like a star i’th’darkest night stick fiery off indeed

32
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what quote shows laertes has been caught in his own trap

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why as a woodcock to mine own springe i am justly killed with mine own treachery

33
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how does laertes react to the kings death

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he is justly served it is a poison tempered by himself

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what does polonius say to show his belief that falsehoods will encourage others to tell the truth - fishing metaphor

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your bait of falshood takes this carp of truth, and thus do we of wisdom and of reach

35
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how is polonius described by claudius

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as of a man faithful and honourable

36
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what quote from hamlet shows he is in a state of mourning

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my inky cloak
suits of solemn black
windy suspiration of forced breath
the fruitful river in the eye

37
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how does hamlet describe denmark in 4 words

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how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable

38
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how does hamlet describe denmakr with a garden metaphor

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tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed things rank and gross in nature

39
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what does laertes say shwoing hamlet doesnt have alot of control

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his will is not his own for he himself is subject to his birth

40
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what quote shows hamlet is bound by duty to revenge

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speak i am bound to hear
so art thou to revenge when thou shalt hear

41
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what quote shows hamlets devotion to revenge

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from the table of my memory i shall wipe away all trivial and fond records and thy commandment all alon shall live within the book and volume of my brain unmixed with baser matters

42
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what quote shows that hamlets madness (at least started out) as an act

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to put an antic dispositon on

43
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what quote shows hamlets unhappiness at his fate

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the time is out of joint: ih cursed spite
that ever i was born to set it right

44
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what quote shows hamlets state after speaking to the ghost

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and with a look so piteous in purport as if he had been loosed out of hell to speak of horrors

45
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what quotes from polonius shows that hamlets maddnes is merely an act

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though this be madness yet there is method in’t

how pregnant sometimes his replies are

46
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what quote shows hamlet is all bark no bite

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must like a whore unpack my heart with words and fall a-cursing like a very drab

47
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what quote shows hamlets debate over whether he should end it or continue to live but suffer

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whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take up arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them

48
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what quote shows hamlets sense of hope for a better life

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to die to sleep to sleep perchance to dream. ay theres the rub for in that sleep of death what dreams may come

49
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what quote shows that hamlet looks up to those not ruled by passion

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give me that man that is not passions slave and i will wear him in my hearts core

50
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what interaction between hamlet and ophelia is a dig at gertrude

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tis breif my lord
as womans love

51
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what qoute from gertrude shows only hamlet sees the ghost

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alas hes mad..you do bend your eye on vacancy

52
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how does gertrude describe hamlets madness

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mad as the sea and wind, when both contend which is the mightier

53
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what quote from hamlet shows he will only think of revenge

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from this time forth my thought be bloody or be nothing worth

54
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what quote from hamlet shows his question of how life could be important if we all end up the same in death

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dost thou think alexander looked o’ this fashion i’th’earth

imperious caesar dead and turned to clay might stop a hole to keep the wind away

55
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what quote shows hamlets love for ophelia

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i loved ophelia; forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum

56
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what quote from hamlet shows that he believes his madness is his downfall

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his madness is poor hamlets enemy

57
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what quote shows hamlet is respected in death

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bear hamlet like a soldier…for he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royal

58
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What quote shows Claudius asking for hamlet to be spied on

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And to gather so much as from occasion you may glean

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