Hamlet key quotes Flashcards
(23 cards)
setting
“something is rotten in the state of denmark”
existential
“to be or not to be; that is the question”
Gertrude
“the lady doth protest too much methinks”
indecision
“How all occasions do inform against me”
death and life
“Alas, poor yorick. I knew him, Horatio”
love
“I loved Ophelia. Fourty thousand brothers could not with all their quality of love make up my sum”
revenge
“How stand I then that have a father kill’d a mother stain’d and let all sleep?”
end
“the rest is silence”
Claudius
“my crown, my own ambition and my queen”
women and patriachal view
“frailty thy name is woman!”
revenge
“the plays the thing where’in Ill catch the conscience of the king”
women and patriachal view (pt 2)
“get thee to a nunnery”
ghost
“the serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown”
madness feigned
“though this be madness yet there is method in’t”
Horatio and Hamlet
“Goodnight, sweet prince; And the flights of angels sing thee to thy rest”
madness feigned (2)
“Put on an antic disposition”
1st soliloquy/ imagery
“O, that this too too solid flesh would melt”
Hamlet and Claudius
“A little more than kin and less than kind”
Polonius
“fish monger” and “no more than a fool”
lack of trust/societal preoccupation
“neither a borrow nor a lender be”
ghost describes poison (metaphor and similie)
the poisons working, “swift as quicksilver”, “like eager droppings into milk”
imagery repeated of…
hunting “ get the wind off” and “french falconers”
laertes passionate revenge
“to cut his throat i’th the church”
