Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

DRAMa > YEAR 12 key quotes - Hamlet > Flashcards

YEAR 12 key quotes - Hamlet Flashcards

1
Q

‘A little more than…’

A

‘A little more than kin, and less than kind.’ – Hamlet, 1:2
- Hamlet’s first line, an aside

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

‘for I must…’

A

‘for I must hold my tongue’ – Hamlet, 1:2

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

‘We’ll teach you to…’

A

‘We’ll teach you to drink deep ere you depart’ – Hamlet, 1:2

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

‘[drinking] is a custom more…’

A

‘[drinking] is a custom more/ Honour’d in the breach than the observance.’ – Hamlet 1:4

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Denmark is a…’

A

Denmark is a prison’ – Hamlet, 2:2

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

‘dissociation from the…’

A

‘dissociation from the society into which he was born’ – Brown

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

‘Am i…’

A

‘Am I a coward?’ – Hamlet, 2:2

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

‘lack…’

A

‘lack gall’ – Hamlet, 2:2

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

‘like a whore…’

A

‘like a whore, unpack my heart with words’ – Hamlet, 2:2

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

‘O my offence…’

A

‘O my offence is rank’ – Claudius, 3:3

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

‘not rain enough…’

A

‘not rain enough […] to wash it white as snow’ – Claudius, 3:3

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

‘my dull…’

A

‘my dull revenge’ – Hamlet, 4:4

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

‘three…’

A

‘three parts coward’ – Hamlet, 4:4

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Hamlet’s ‘noisy…’

A

Hamlet’s ‘noisy soul-wrenching soliloquys’ (Fischer)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

‘To put an…’

A

‘To put an antic disposition on’ – Hamlet, 1:5

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

‘I am but mad…’

A

‘I am but mad north-north-west’ – Hamlet, 2:2

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

‘Hamlet does it not…’

A

‘Hamlet does it not […] Who does it, then? His madness.’ – Hamlet, 5:2

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

‘The play’s the thing…’

A

‘The play’s the thing/ Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King’ – Hamlet, 2:2

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

‘Revenge his foul…’

A

Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.’ – Ghost, 1:5

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

‘He would…’

A

‘He would drown the stage with tears’ – Hamlet, 2:2

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

‘Up…’

A

‘Up, sword’ – Hamlet, 3:3

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

‘How now!..’

A

‘How now! a rat?/ Dead, for a ducat, dead! [Kills Polonius…]’ – Hamlet, 3:4

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

‘the King’s to…’
‘Then, venom…’

A

‘the King’s to blame [for Getrude’s death].’ – Laertes, 5:2
‘Then, venom, to thy work.’ – Hamlet, 5:2

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

‘Follow…’

A

‘Follow my mother. [King dies.]’ – Hamlet, 5:2

25
Q

Hamlet ‘loses the…’

A

Hamlet ‘loses the power of action’ – Tenney L. Davis

26
Q

Dr Johnson argued that ‘there appears…’

A

Dr Johnson argued that ‘there appears no adequate cause’ for Hamlet’s feigned madness since he could have done everything he did ‘with the reputation of sanity’

27
Q

‘Your better wisdoms…’

A

‘Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone/ With this affair along.’ – Claudius, 1:2

28
Q

‘gentle and…’

A

‘gentle and unforc’d accord of Hamlet’ – Claudius, 1:2

29
Q

‘Be you and I…’

A

‘Be you and I behind an arras then’ – Polonius, 2:2

30
Q

‘for two special reasons […] The…’

A

‘for two special reasons […] The Queen [and] the great love the general gender bear him’ – Claudius, 4:7

31
Q

‘Revenge should…’

A

‘Revenge should have no bounds’ – Claudius to L., 4:7

32
Q

‘your father lost…’

A

‘your father lost a father;/ That father lost his’ – Claudius, 1:2

33
Q

‘Frailty, thy…’

A

‘Frailty, thy name is woman!’ – Hamlet, 1:2

34
Q

‘O, most…’

A

‘O, most pernicious woman!’ – Hamlet, 1:5

35
Q

‘almost as bad, good…’

A

‘almost as bad, good mother,/ As kill a king and marry with his brother’ – H, 3:4

36
Q

‘blurs the…’

A

‘blurs the grace and blush of modesty’ – H, 3:4

37
Q

‘I never…’

A

‘I never gave you aught.’ – Hamlet, 3:1

38
Q

‘You should not…’

A

‘You should not have believ’d me’ – Hamlet to Ophelia, 3:1

39
Q

‘Get thee…’

A

‘Get thee to a nunnery.’ – H, 3:1

40
Q

‘what monsters…’

A

‘what monsters you make of them’ – H, 3:1
(men by cheating on them)

41
Q

‘I have heard…’

A

‘I have heard of your paintings too’ – H, 3:1

42
Q

‘I lov’d…’

A

‘I lov’d Ophelia: forty thousand brothers/ Could not […] Make up my sum’ – H, 5:1

43
Q

in Scene 3:1 when Polonius and Claudius are watching H and O, Hamlet tests Ophelia by….

A

in Scene 3:1 when Polonius and Claudius are watching H and O, Hamlet tests Ophelia by asking ‘Where is your father?’, to which she lies and says ‘At home’

44
Q

‘She is so conjunctive…’

A

‘She is so conjunctive to my life and soul’ – Claudius, 4:7

45
Q

Claudius’ reaction to Gertrude drinking the poison

A

‘Gertrude, do not drink.’ – Claudius, 5:2
‘[Aside] It is the poison’d cup’ – Claudius, 5:2

46
Q

‘I fear’d he did…’

A

‘I fear’d he did but trifle,/ And meant to wreck thee’ – Polonius, 2:1

47
Q

‘I’ll loose…’

A

‘I’ll loose my daughter to him’ – Polonius, 2:2

48
Q

‘Alas, sweet…’

A

‘Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song?’ – Gertrude, 4:5

49
Q

how does Gertrude describe Ophelia’s death?

A

‘willow’ ‘the brook’ ‘glassy stream’ ‘nettles, daisies, and long purples’ ‘mermaid-like’ – Gertrude, 4:7

50
Q

‘Her death…’

A

‘Her death was doubtful […] but that great command o’ersways the order’ – Priest, 5:1

51
Q

‘I hop’d thou….’

A

‘I hop’d thou wouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife’ – Gertrude, 5:1

52
Q

‘I doubt it is no…’

A

‘I doubt it is no other but […] His father’s death and our o’erhasty marriage.’ – Gertrude, 2:2

53
Q

‘I do not…’

A

‘I do not know my lord what I should think’ – Ophelia to P., 1:3

54
Q

‘this is the…’

A

‘this is the poison of deep grief’ – Claudius, 4:5

55
Q

‘seeks her…’
‘unless she drown’d…’

A

‘seeks her own salvation’ – 1 Clown
‘unless she drown’d herself in her own defence?’ – 1 Clown

56
Q

Ophelia interrupts Gertrude to say…

A

‘Pray you mark.’ – 4:5

57
Q

… claimed that ‘Ophelia’s tragedy is…’

A

Kitto claimed that ‘Ophelia’s tragedy is that she is innocently obedient to a disastrous father’

58
Q

Brown argued that Ophelia’s identity is…

A

Brown argued that Ophelia’s identity is dependent on her father, without him, she goes mad

DRAMa (3 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions