Quotes Act (III) scene (iv) Flashcards
a bloody deed!
a bloody deed! i almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry his brother.
o hamlet! speak no more
o hamlet! speak no more; thou turn’st mine eyes into my very soul; and there i see such black and grained spots as will not leave their tinct
in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, stew’d in corruption,
stew’d in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty
WHO SAYS THIS you are the queen, your husband’s brother’s wife; and - would it were not so! - you are my mother.
Hamlet to gertrude
EXPLAIN you are the queen, your husband’s brother’s wife; and - would it were not so! - you are my mother.
i wish it wasn’t true you were my mother
hamlet’s fury finally comes out, directed at his mother
holds gertrude in contempt (hates her)
WHO SAYS THIS? a bloody deed! i almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry his brother.
hamlet
EXPLAIN a bloody deed! i almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry his brother.
hamlet accuses gertrude of regicide and feels that she has betrayed her duty as a wife and a queen
WHO SAYS THIS I took thee for thy better
hamlet to polonius
EXPLAIN I took thee for thy better
hamlet wishes that it was claudius that he killed, then his duty would be done
WHO SAYS THIS such an act that blurs the grace and blush of modesty
hamlet
EXPLAIN such an act that blurs the grace and blush of modesty
betrayal by gertrude, moral betrayal (its plain bad) and personal betrayal (king hamlet and prince hamlet)
- you should be ashamed of yourself - if hamlet cannot rely on gertrude he cannot cope with the world
WHO SAYS THIS o hamlet! speak no more; the turn’s mine eyes into my very soul; and there i see such black and grained spots as will not leave their tinct
gertrude
EXPLAIN o hamlet! speak no more; the turn’s mine eyes into my very soul; and there i see such black and grained spots as will not leave their tinct
black spots cannot be cleaned
- he has forced her to look at what she’s done
- already has a heightened awareness of her failure
- doesn’t want to hear it from hamlet
WHO SAYS THIS stew’d in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty
hamlet
EXPLAIN stew’d in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty
she took away the beauty of the world for him
she has ruined love for him
he doesn’t want to think about her relationship with claudius
