Hamlet quotes Flashcards
Act 1, Scene1: Hamlet talking about his dads death
“Revenge his foul and most unnatural death”
Act 1, Scene 2: Hamlet not wanting to be Claudius’ son
(ironic response to Claudius’ question about cloud hanging over him)
“I am too much in the sun”
Act 1, Scene 2: Hamlet talking about Gertrude’s hasty marriage to Claudius
“Frailty thy name is woman!”
Act 3, Scene 4: Hamlet telling Gertrude he is not actually mad but faking his madness
“I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft”
Act 1, Scene 1: Ghost describing Claudius and his marriage to Gertrude
“that incestuous , that adulterate beast”
Act 2, Scene 2: Hamlet beating himself up over his hesitation to kill Claudius
“Vengeance! Why, what an ass am I!”
Act1, Scene 3: Polonius’ parting words to Laertes as he leaves for France (Some of the last words he says to Laertes)
“This above all: to thine own self be true”
Act 1, Scene 4: Marcellus expresses his feeling of worry to Horatio over the royal family and the ghost
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”
Act 3, Scene 1: Hamlet scorns Ophelia in an attempt to repel her and establish his madness
“Get thee to a Nunnery”
Act 3, Scene 1: Hamlets Famous soliloquy over whether it is better to live or die
“To be or not to be; that is the question”
Act 3 Scene 3: Claudius praying in an attempt to repent for his sins, but unable to obtain real absolution as he has not given up the rewards of his actions
“My crown, mine own ambition, and my Queen!”
Act 2, Scene 2: Gertrude talking to Rosencrantz and Gildensturn about Hamlets sudden madness requesting they help him
“my too much changèd son”
Act 5, Scene 1: Hamlet jumps into Ophelia’s grave and says he loved Ophelia more then Laertes
‘forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum. ‘
Act 1, Scene 5: Hamlet explaining his plan to Horatio and Marcellus to fein madness in an attempt to get revenge for his dad
“I perchance hereafter shall think meet
To put an antic disposition on”
Act 2 Scene 2: Hamlets plan to use the play to determine whether Claudius is guilty or not
“The play’s the thing
Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King”
