Hamlet Flashcards
(21 cards)
The sonnet began in…
the 13th century
Sonnet
lyric poem with 14 lines
Comedy
A play including humor but has a happy ending
Tragedy
The main character of the play comes to an unhappy ending
Tragic hero
a main character an important person with extraordinary abilities. This person has a tragic flaw that causes his or her downfall
plot
involves a conflict between the hero and a force which may be a person or a force relates events that may lead to a catastrophe or a tragic revolution. Includes a resolution in which the hero faces doom with courage and dignity.
theme
the central idea of the tragedy
comic relief
a moment of humor that lightens scenes of intensity
5 themes of hamlet
- uncertainty 2. revenge 3. death 4. betrayal 5. conflict
Castle which hamlet lived in
elsinore
Hamlet is written in
blank verse/unrhymed— iambic pentameter
Frailty, thy name is woman!
From: Hamlet
Soliloqy
My father’s brother, but no more like my father than I to Hercules.
Hamlet Soliloqy
Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
From: Hamlet
To: Horatio
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend; and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry
From: Polonius
To: Laerties
This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
From: Polonius
To: Laertes
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
From: Polonius
To: Laertes
Revenge is foul and most unnatural murder.
From: ghost
To: Hamlet
Doubt the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
From:hamlet
To: Ophelia
Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t
Polonius’s aside
The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!
From: Hamlet
To: Marcellus and Horatio
