Acts 4 and 5 for EOY Flashcards
(19 cards)
4.1 Gertrude - “Mad as the sea and wind when both contend / Which is the mightier”
Hamlet is “as mad as the waves and the wind when they struggle against each other in a storm.”
4.2 Hamlet - “A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear”
“Mischievous words will never get a response from a fool, because the fool won’t understand them.” Hamlet mocks Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
4.2 Hamlet - “The body is with the King, but the King is not with the body”
“The body’s with the real king, but the current king’s not with the body.”
A4.3 Hamlet - “Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to feed us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.”
“Worms are the kings of all eating. We fatten up all creatures to feed ourselves—and we fatten ourselves to eventually feed the worms.”
In response to Claudius asking where Polonius is, Hamlet says that he is “At supper.”
A4.3 Hamlet - “if indeed you find him not within this month you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.”
“Now, if you don’t find him within the next month, you’ll smell him as you go upstairs into the main hall.”
A4.4 Hamlet - “Sure he that made us with such large discourse/ Looking before and after, gave us not
/ That capability and godlike reason / To fust in us unused.”
“God didn’t give us such a great and godlike ability to think and reason so that those capabilities would grow moldy from disuse.”
Soliloquy
A4.5 Ophelia - “Goodnight, ladies, goodnight. Sweet ladies, goodnight, goodnight.”
Claudius - “Oh, this is the poison of deep grief.”
Ophelia’s descent into madness
A4.5 Claudius - “Her brother[…] wants not buzzers to infect his ear/ With pestilent speeches of his father’s death”
“His questions about his father’s death are answered by vicious gossipers who fill his ears with nasty stories, and who—without knowing what really happened—blame it all on me.”
A4.5 Laertes - “This nothing’s more than matter.”
“This apparent nonsense has more meaning than rational speech.”
In response to Ophelia’s words
A4.7 Claudius - “The Queen his mother / Lives almost by his looks”
“The queen, his mother, loves [Hamlet] and is devoted to him.”
A4.7 Claudius - “I know love is begun by time / And that I see in passages of proof / Time qualifies the spark and fire of it.”
“I know that love exists in a particular time and place—and that the passage of time can weaken the spark and fire of that love.”
Claudius asks Laertes if his grief for his father’s death is real or just an act
A4.7 Gertrude - “Her clothes spread wide / And mermaid-like they awhile they bore her up, / Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds / As one incapable of her own distress”
“Her clothes spread wide in the water, and held her up while she sang bits of old hymns. She acted as if she could not comprehend the danger”
A5.1 Gravedigger - “your water is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body”
“water is the main cause of decay in your son-of-a-bitch body.”
A5.1 Hamlet - “Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.”
“Oh, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio. He was a man of endless humor, a great wit.”
A5.1 Hamlet - “I loved Ophelia—forty thousand brothers / Could not with all their quantity of love / Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?”
“I loved Ophelia. The love of forty thousand brothers, added together, could not match mine. What are you going to do for her?”
To Laertes
A5.2 Hamlet - “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, / Rough-hew them how we will.”
“There’s a higher power that guides our fate, no matter how much we try to shape it ourselves.”
A5.2 Gertrude - “He’s fat and scant of breath.”
“He’s fat and out of breath.”
About Hamlet whilst he fights Laertes
A5.2 Hamlet - “The rest is silence.”
Hamlet’s last words
A5.2 Horatio - “Now cracks a noble heart.”
“Now a noble heart breaks.”
Remorse for Hamlet
