The Supernatural and Fate Flashcards
What quote introduces the Ghost and the theme of supernatural disturbance?
“This bodes some strange eruption to our state.”
How does Horatio describe the Ghost’s appearance and implication for Denmark?
“It harrows me with fear and wonder.”
What line shows Hamlet questioning whether the Ghost is trustworthy?
“The spirit that I have seen may be the devil.”
What does the Ghost say about its death and purgatory?
“I am thy father’s spirit, doom’d for a certain term to walk the night.”
How does Hamlet wrestle with the idea of divine fate and direction?
“There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.”
What quote links fate to the inevitability of death?
“If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now.”
How does the Ghost instruct Hamlet regarding his mother and revenge?
“Leave her to heaven, and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge.”
What line shows Hamlet surrendering to fate near the end?
“Let be.”
