Act 2 Flashcards
(34 cards)
(Polonius and Reynaldo) “Before you visit him…
make inquire of his behaviour” (2.1)
(Polonius) “Put on him what forgeries…
you please; marry, none so rank as may dishonour him…Wanton, wild and usual slips most known to youth and liberty…Drinking, fencing, swearing, quarrelling” (2.1)
(Ophelia) “O, my lord I have been…
so affrightened” (2.1)
(Ophelia) “I was sewing in my closet…
Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced…Stockings foul’d…Pale as his shirt…Comes before me” (2.1)
(Ophelia) “As if he had been loosed…
out of Hell to speak of horrors” (2.1)
(Ophelia) “He took me by the wrist and…
held me hard” (2.1)
(Polonius) “I will go seek…
the King” (2.1)
(Polonius) “This is the very ecstasy of…
love…Violent…Does afflict our natures” (2.1)
(Ophelia) “As you did command, I did repel…
his fetters and denied his access to me” (2.1)
(Gertrude to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern) “Your visitation shall receive…
such thanks as fits a king’s remembrance” (2.2)
(Rosencrantz) “The sovereign…
power you have of us” (2.2)
(Guildenstern) “But we both obey, and here give up ourselves, to…
lay our service freely at your feet, to be commanded” (2.2)
(Gertrude) “Our overhasty…
marriage” (2.2)
(Polonius) “I have a daughter…
-have while she is mine- Who, in her duty and obedience” (2.2)
(Polonius) “I’ll loose…
my daughter to him” (2.2)
(Hamlet to Polonius) “You are a…
fishmonger” (2.2)
(Hamlet) “Have you a daughter?…
let her not walk in the sun: conception is a blessing, but not as your daughter may conceive” (2.2)
(Polonius) “Though, this be madness…
there is method in it” (2.2)
(Hamlet) “You cannot sir take from me anything that I will…
more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life” (2.2)
(Hamlet) “Denmark’s a…
prison…There are many confines,
wards and dungeons” (2.2)
“Which dreams indeed are ambition…
for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream” (2.2)
(Hamlet) “There is a kind of confession in your looks…
which your modesties have not craft enough to colour” (2.2)
(Hamlet) “If you love me…
hold not off” (2.2)
(Hamlet) “There is something in this more than natural…
if philosophy could find it out” (2.2)
