Women quotes Flashcards
“tis…
unmanly grief” (1.2)
“frailty..
thy name is woman” (1.2)
“O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason..
would have mourned longer” (1.2)
“[Gertrude] would hang
on him” - parasitic (1.2)
“your chaste treasure
open to his unmastered importunity” (1.3)
“best safety lies
in fear” (1.3)
“ ‘tis in my memory
locked, and you yourself shall keep the key of it” (1.3)
“In few Ophelia, Do not believe his vows,
for they are brokers” (1.3)
“O most pernicious
woman!” (1.5)
“As you ddi command, I did
repel his letters and denied his access to me” (2.1)
“I’ll loose
my daughter to him” (2.2)
Hamlet calls Polonius a “fish..
monger” (2.2) - Renaissance slang for pimp
“Let [Ophelia] not walk in the
sun” (2.2) - sun (pale) and son (Hamlet)
“must like a whore unpack my heart with
words” (2.2)
Gertrude: “Ophelia I do wish that your good beauties
be the cause of Hamlet’s wildness” (3.1)
”the fair Ophelia.
Nymph” (3.1)
“Are you honest?
Are you fair” (3.1) - subtext of virginity
“Get thee to a nunnery -
why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?” (3.1)
“God hath given you one face and
you make yourself another.” (3.1) - makeup/“paintings”
“I say we will have no more
marriages” (3.1)
“that’s a fair thought, to lie between
maid’s legs” (3.2) - Hamlet being sexually graphic
“Tis brief my lord.
As woman’s love” (3.2)
Players: “A second time I kill my husband dead
When second husband kisses me in bed” (3.2)
Claudius: “pretty
Ophelia!” (4.5) - madness
Song: “before you tumbled (had sex with) me,
you promised me to wed”
Claudius sympathetic towards O’s madness:
“Oh this is the poison of deep grief, it springs all from her father’s death” (4.5)
Claudius: “poor
Ophelia”
Laertes: “she turns to favour and to
prettiness” (4.5) - female madness
Ophelia’s herbs:
“rosemary” “fennel” “columbines” “rue” (4.5)
Claudius: “how, sweet
queen!” (4.7)
Kozinstev
1962 Ophelia dances “puppet-like”
Ophelia’s death: “her weedy
trophies”
Ophelia’s death (4.7) - “her clothes
spread wide”
Ophelia’s death - “mermaid-
like” (4.7)
Laertes: “too much of water
hast thou, poor Ophelia” (4.7)
Ophelia’s suicide - “with desperate hand
fordo it own life”
“a ministering angel shall my
sister be” (5.1)
Gertrude calls Ophelia a “sweet
maid” (5.1)
“I loved Ophelia; forty thousand brothers could not with all their
quantity of love make up my sum” (5.1)
Gertrude: “I will my lord, I pray
you pardon me” (5.2)
“wretched
queen” (5.2)
