Women quotes

Question 1

“tis…

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unmanly grief” (1.2)

Question 2

“frailty..

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thy name is woman” (1.2)

Question 3

“O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason..

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would have mourned longer” (1.2)

Question 4

“[Gertrude] would hang

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on him” - parasitic (1.2)

Question 5

“your chaste treasure

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open to his unmastered importunity” (1.3)

Question 6

“best safety lies

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in fear” (1.3)

Question 7

“ ‘tis in my memory

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locked, and you yourself shall keep the key of it” (1.3)

Question 8

“In few Ophelia, Do not believe his vows,

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for they are brokers” (1.3)

Question 9

“O most pernicious

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woman!” (1.5)

Question 10

“As you ddi command, I did

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repel his letters and denied his access to me” (2.1)

Question 11

“I’ll loose

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my daughter to him” (2.2)

Question 12

Hamlet calls Polonius a “fish..

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monger” (2.2) - Renaissance slang for pimp

Question 13

“Let [Ophelia] not walk in the

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sun” (2.2) - sun (pale) and son (Hamlet)

Question 14

“must like a whore unpack my heart with

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words” (2.2)

Question 15

Gertrude: “Ophelia I do wish that your good beauties

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be the cause of Hamlet’s wildness” (3.1)

Question 16

”the fair Ophelia.

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Nymph” (3.1)

Question 17

“Are you honest?

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Are you fair” (3.1) - subtext of virginity

Question 18

“Get thee to a nunnery -

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why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?” (3.1)

Question 19

“God hath given you one face and

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you make yourself another.” (3.1) - makeup/“paintings”

Question 20

“I say we will have no more

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marriages” (3.1)

Question 21

“that’s a fair thought, to lie between

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maid’s legs” (3.2) - Hamlet being sexually graphic

Question 22

“Tis brief my lord.

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As woman’s love” (3.2)

Question 23

Players: “A second time I kill my husband dead

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When second husband kisses me in bed” (3.2)

Question 24

Claudius: “pretty

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Ophelia!” (4.5) - madness

Question 25

Song: “before you tumbled (had sex with) me,

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you promised me to wed”

Question 26

Claudius sympathetic towards O’s madness:

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“Oh this is the poison of deep grief, it springs all from her father’s death” (4.5)

Question 27

Claudius: “poor

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Ophelia”

Question 28

Laertes: “she turns to favour and to

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prettiness” (4.5) - female madness

Question 29

Ophelia’s herbs:

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“rosemary” “fennel” “columbines” “rue” (4.5)

Question 30

Claudius: “how, sweet

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queen!” (4.7)

Question 31

Ophelia’s death - “fantastic garlands

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of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies and long purples”

Question 32

Ophelia’s death: “her weedy

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trophies”

Question 33

Ophelia’s death (4.7) - “her clothes

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spread wide”

Question 34

Ophelia’s death - “mermaid-

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like” (4.7)

Question 35

Laertes: “too much of water

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hast thou, poor Ophelia” (4.7)

Question 36

Ophelia’s suicide - “with desperate hand

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fordo it own life”

Question 37

“a ministering angel shall my

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sister be” (5.1)

Question 38

Gertrude calls Ophelia a “sweet

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maid” (5.1)

Question 39

“I loved Ophelia; forty thousand brothers could not with all their

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quantity of love make up my sum” (5.1)

Question 40

Gertrude: “I will my lord, I pray

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you pardon me” (5.2)

Question 41

“wretched

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queen” (5.2)