Act 4 Flashcards
(58 cards)
(Gertrude) “Mad as the sea and…
wind, when both contend which is the mightier in his lawless fit” (4.1)
(Claudius) “Threats to all…
to you yourself, to us, to every one” (4.1)
(Claudius) “Foul…
disease” (4.1)
(Claudius) “O, come away, my soul is…
full of discord and dismay” (4.1)
(Polonius’ body) “Compounded it with dust…
whereto ‘tis kin” (4.2)
(Hamlet) “Sponge…
soaks up the king’s countenance, his
rewards, his authorities” (4.2)
(Hamlet) “He keeps them, like an ape…
in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed” (4.2)
(Hamlet) “ A knavish speech sleeps…
in a foolish ear” (4.2)
(Hamlet) “Not where he eats…
but where he is eaten” (4.3)
(Hamlet) “Two dishes…
but to one table: that’s the end” (4.3)
(Hamlet) “Seek him in the…
other place yourself” (4.3)
(To Claudius) “Farewell, dear…
mother” (4.3)
(Claudius) “The death of Hamlet…
Do it, England, for like the hectic in my blood he rages, and thou must cure me” (4.3)
(Hamlet) “Witness this army of such mass and…
charge, led by a delicate and tender prince…Divine ambition” (4.4)
(Hamlet) “I see the imminent…
death of twenty thousand men!” (4.4)
(Hamlet) “For a fantasy and trick of fame…
fo to their graves like beds, fight for a plot whereon the numbers cannot try the cause” (4.4)
(Hamlet) “O, from this time forth, my thoughts be…
bloody, or be nothing worth!” (4.4)
(Horatio) “Dangerous conjectures in…
ill-breeding minds” (4.4)
(Gertrude) “Sweet…
lady” (4.5)
(Ophelia) “I a maid at your window, to be your Valentine…
Let in the maid, that out a maid
never departed more” (4.5)
(Ophelia) “By cock they are to blame. Quoth she…
before you tumbled me, you promised me to wed” (4.5)
(Claudius) “O, this is the poison of deep…
grief, it springs all from her father’s death” (4.5)
(Claudius) “The people muddied…
thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers” (4.5)
(Claudius) “Poor Ophelia, divided from herself and her fair…
judgement, without which we are pictures, or mere beasts” (4.5)
