Act 1, Scene 4 Flashcards
(34 cards)
Hamlet: “The air bites shrewdly………….
……………….it is very cold.” - Here Shakespeare is setting the scene for Hamlet, Horatio and Marcellus about to see Old Hamlet’s ghost. The use of pathetic fallacy and ‘cold’ atmosphere could perhaps foreshadow later events in the play where things are not as they seem, are cold, dangerous and sinister.
Horatio: “It is a nipping and………..
…………an eager air.” - Here Shakespeare is setting the scene for Hamlet, Horatio and Marcellus about to see Old Hamlet’s ghost. The use of pathetic fallacy and ‘nipping’ atmosphere could perhaps foreshadow later events in the play where things are not as they seem, are cold, dangerous and sinister.
Hamlet: “That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As in their birth - wherein they are not……….
…………..guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin.” - Hamlet talking about the sin of man and stating that he doesn’t think evil has the ability to choose it’s victims; it is just that some people are born evil and some people are not.
Hamlet: “That for some vicious………….
…………..mole of nature in them.”
Hamlet: “Since nature cannot………….
…………choose his origin.” - Personification of nature; makes evil seem like a real person - Claudius?
Hamlet: “Take corruption from…………..
………….that particular fault.” - Some people are just born corrupt and it is a fault they are born with. Some people are born with sin and cannot escape it.
Horatio: “Look, my lord………..
…………it comes!” - Shakespeare using an exclamatory remark to emphasise Horatio’s fear whilst he warns Hamlet that Old Hamlet’s ghost is getting nearer towards them.
Stage Directions: “Enter………..
………….Ghost.”
Hamlet: “Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of………..
…………health or goblin damn’d.” - Reoccurring motif / constant reference as to whether the ghost is good or evil.
Hamlet: “Bring with thee airs from…………
………..heaven or blasts from hell.” - Hamlet pondering over whether the ghost is sent from Heaven or Hell.
Hamlet: “By thy intents wicked or…………
…………charitable?” - Hamlet pondering as to whether the ghost’s intentions are evil and damned or good and charitable.
Hamlet: “Tell why thy canonized bones, hearsed (coffin) in…………….
death, Have burst their cerements.” - Hamlet wonders why his Father has burst from the grave and has been sick.
Hamlet: “Why the sepulchre (tomb) Wherein we saw thee………..
………..quietly inurn’d.” - Hamlet wonders why his Father has burst from the grave and has been sick.
Hamlet: “Hath oped his ponderuous and……….
………….marble jaws, To cast thee up again.” - Hamlet states that it’s as if someone has opened Old Hamlet’s jaws and let him out of his coffin; as if an external force has bought him back to life.
Hamlet: “What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete……………
………….steel Revisit’st thus the glimpses of the moon.” - Hamlet questions why his Father has suddenly turned up in his armour to upset him?
Stage Directions: “The Ghost……….
………….beckons Hamlet.”
Horatio: “It beckons you to go away with it………..
…………..As if some impartment did desire To you alone.” - Horatio telling Hamlet that he thinks the Ghost wants to speak to him privately, without himself and Marcellus.
Marcellus: “But do not go………..
………..with it.” - Marcellus tells Hamlet not to go with / follow the Ghost as he fears it may possess him.
Hamlet: “I will………..
………..follow it.” - Hamlet wants to follow the Ghost of Old Hamlet to see what he’s got to say to him.
Horatio: “Do not………….
………..my lord.” - Horatio doesn’t want Hamlet to go and speak with the Ghost of Old Hamlet alone in case it possesses him.
Hamlet: “Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life……….
……….in a pin’s fee.” - Hamlet questions Horatio and Marcellus as to why they are so worried about him speaking with the Ghost? Hamlet states that he himself is not worried because he doesn’t see his life as having anymore worth than a pin, so why should he fear for his life? He doesn’t value his life on a human level and is not scared of ‘death’ at this stage in the play, as it wouldn’t be him doing it to himself.
Hamlet: “It waves me forth again……..
……….I’ll follow it.” - Here Hamlet is showing traits of being a man of action / someone who is determined to do something, in this case see the Ghost. At this point in the play, he is not a procrastinator - he is a man of action deciding to follow, what he believes to be, his father’s Ghost.
Horatio: “What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the………
……….cliff That beetles o’er his base into the sea.” - Horatio wonders if the Ghost will tempt Hamlet into doing bad and perhaps lead him over the cliff edge into the sea.
Horatio: “And draw you into………..
……….madness?” - Horatio is worried that the Ghost might draw Hamlet into madness / curse him with powers not known to man. He is concerned as to whether the Ghost will bring madness upon Hamlet.
