YEAR 12 key quotes - Hamlet Flashcards
‘A little more than…’
‘A little more than kin, and less than kind.’ – Hamlet, 1:2
- Hamlet’s first line, an aside
‘for I must…’
‘for I must hold my tongue’ – Hamlet, 1:2
‘We’ll teach you to…’
‘We’ll teach you to drink deep ere you depart’ – Hamlet, 1:2
‘[drinking] is a custom more…’
‘[drinking] is a custom more/ Honour’d in the breach than the observance.’ – Hamlet 1:4
Denmark is a…’
Denmark is a prison’ – Hamlet, 2:2
‘dissociation from the…’
‘dissociation from the society into which he was born’ – Brown
‘Am i…’
‘Am I a coward?’ – Hamlet, 2:2
‘lack…’
‘lack gall’ – Hamlet, 2:2
‘like a whore…’
‘like a whore, unpack my heart with words’ – Hamlet, 2:2
‘O my offence…’
‘O my offence is rank’ – Claudius, 3:3
‘not rain enough…’
‘not rain enough […] to wash it white as snow’ – Claudius, 3:3
‘my dull…’
‘my dull revenge’ – Hamlet, 4:4
‘three…’
‘three parts coward’ – Hamlet, 4:4
Hamlet’s ‘noisy…’
Hamlet’s ‘noisy soul-wrenching soliloquys’ (Fischer)
‘To put an…’
‘To put an antic disposition on’ – Hamlet, 1:5
‘I am but mad…’
‘I am but mad north-north-west’ – Hamlet, 2:2
‘Hamlet does it not…’
‘Hamlet does it not […] Who does it, then? His madness.’ – Hamlet, 5:2
‘The play’s the thing…’
‘The play’s the thing/ Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King’ – Hamlet, 2:2
‘Revenge his foul…’
Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.’ – Ghost, 1:5
‘He would…’
‘He would drown the stage with tears’ – Hamlet, 2:2
‘Up…’
‘Up, sword’ – Hamlet, 3:3
‘How now!..’
‘How now! a rat?/ Dead, for a ducat, dead! [Kills Polonius…]’ – Hamlet, 3:4
‘the King’s to…’
‘Then, venom…’
‘the King’s to blame [for Getrude’s death].’ – Laertes, 5:2
‘Then, venom, to thy work.’ – Hamlet, 5:2
‘Follow…’
‘Follow my mother. [King dies.]’ – Hamlet, 5:2
Hamlet ‘loses the…’
Hamlet ‘loses the power of action’ – Tenney L. Davis
Dr Johnson argued that ‘there appears…’
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’
‘Your better wisdoms…’
‘Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone/ With this affair along.’ – Claudius, 1:2
‘gentle and…’
‘gentle and unforc’d accord of Hamlet’ – Claudius, 1:2
‘Be you and I…’
‘Be you and I behind an arras then’ – Polonius, 2:2
‘for two special reasons […] The…’
‘for two special reasons […] The Queen [and] the great love the general gender bear him’ – Claudius, 4:7
‘Revenge should…’
‘Revenge should have no bounds’ – Claudius to L., 4:7
‘your father lost…’
‘your father lost a father;/ That father lost his’ – Claudius, 1:2
‘Frailty, thy…’
‘Frailty, thy name is woman!’ – Hamlet, 1:2
‘O, most…’
‘O, most pernicious woman!’ – Hamlet, 1:5
‘almost as bad, good…’
‘almost as bad, good mother,/ As kill a king and marry with his brother’ – H, 3:4
‘blurs the…’
‘blurs the grace and blush of modesty’ – H, 3:4
‘I never…’
‘I never gave you aught.’ – Hamlet, 3:1
‘You should not…’
‘You should not have believ’d me’ – Hamlet to Ophelia, 3:1
‘Get thee…’
‘Get thee to a nunnery.’ – H, 3:1
‘what monsters…’
‘what monsters you make of them’ – H, 3:1
(men by cheating on them)
‘I have heard…’
‘I have heard of your paintings too’ – H, 3:1
‘I lov’d…’
‘I lov’d Ophelia: forty thousand brothers/ Could not […] Make up my sum’ – H, 5:1
in Scene 3:1 when Polonius and Claudius are watching H and O, Hamlet tests Ophelia by….
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’
‘She is so conjunctive…’
‘She is so conjunctive to my life and soul’ – Claudius, 4:7
Claudius’ reaction to Gertrude drinking the poison
‘Gertrude, do not drink.’ – Claudius, 5:2
‘[Aside] It is the poison’d cup’ – Claudius, 5:2
‘I fear’d he did…’
‘I fear’d he did but trifle,/ And meant to wreck thee’ – Polonius, 2:1
‘I’ll loose…’
‘I’ll loose my daughter to him’ – Polonius, 2:2
‘Alas, sweet…’
‘Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song?’ – Gertrude, 4:5
how does Gertrude describe Ophelia’s death?
‘willow’ ‘the brook’ ‘glassy stream’ ‘nettles, daisies, and long purples’ ‘mermaid-like’ – Gertrude, 4:7
‘Her death…’
‘Her death was doubtful […] but that great command o’ersways the order’ – Priest, 5:1
‘I hop’d thou….’
‘I hop’d thou wouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife’ – Gertrude, 5:1
‘I doubt it is no…’
‘I doubt it is no other but […] His father’s death and our o’erhasty marriage.’ – Gertrude, 2:2
‘I do not…’
‘I do not know my lord what I should think’ – Ophelia to P., 1:3
‘this is the…’
‘this is the poison of deep grief’ – Claudius, 4:5
‘seeks her…’
‘unless she drown’d…’
‘seeks her own salvation’ – 1 Clown
‘unless she drown’d herself in her own defence?’ – 1 Clown
Ophelia interrupts Gertrude to say…
‘Pray you mark.’ – 4:5
… claimed that ‘Ophelia’s tragedy is…’
Kitto claimed that ‘Ophelia’s tragedy is that she is innocently obedient to a disastrous father’
Brown argued that Ophelia’s identity is…
Brown argued that Ophelia’s identity is dependent on her father, without him, she goes mad
