Hamlet Quotes, Scenes And Themes

Question 1

Act 1 Scene 1 Theme of uncertainty Bernardo- Whose..

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there’

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Francisco- appearance vs reality- Stand and..

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Unfold yourself- metaphor

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Bernardo- Long live..

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The king

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Bernardo- Tis now..

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Struck twelve

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Horatio-This bodes some strange..

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Eruption to our state

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Act 1 Scene 2- insulting masculinity Claudius ‘tis unmanly..

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Grief

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Suicide- ‘O that this too..

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too solid flesh would melt’

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Women- Frailty..

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Thy name is women’

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Gertrude- Death- ‘All that..

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Lives must die

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Claudius-Ambition, disruption of natural order ‘ Therefore our sometimes..

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sister, now our queen’

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Act 1 Scene 3- Polonius warning to Laertes on bus travels ‘ give every man thine ear..

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but few thy voice’

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Polonius hypocritical- To thine..

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own self be true

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Ophelia-criticism to Laertes ‘ Show me the…

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steep and thorny way to heaven’

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Act 1 scene 4 Marcellus- Something is..

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rotten in the state of Denmark

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Hamlet ‘Angels and ministers..

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of grace defend us

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Hamlet- ‘Let me not..

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Burst in ignorance

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Act 1 Scene 5 Ghost- Revenge his..

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most foul and unnatural murder’

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Hamlet- The serpent that did..

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sting my fathers life now wears his crown’

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Act 2 Scene 1 Polonius advice to Laertes ‘ Drinking, fencing…

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swearing, quarrelling, drabbing’

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Polonius- relationship ‘The very..

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ecstacy of love’

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Polonius- By indirections..

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find directions out’

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Act 2 Scene 2 Hamlet’The plays..

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the thing, wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king

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Act 3 Scene 1-Hamlet- To be or..

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not to be that is the question

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Hamlet’ Thus Conscience…

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does make cowards of us all

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Act 3 Scene 2- The play- Gertrude- ‘The lady doth..

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protest too much methinks’

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Hamlet- ‘The very…

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witching time of night’

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Act 3 Scene 3- Claudius- O, my offence is..

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rank it smells to heaven

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Ghost- ‘ Incestuous..

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bed

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Claudius- My crown, mine own..

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ambition my queen’

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Claudius- My strong guilt…

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defeats my strong intent’

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Act 3 Scene 4- Hamlet kills Polonius ‘ living in the rank..

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sweat of an enseamed bed’

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Hamlet- ‘ throw away..

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the worse part of it’

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Hamlet- killing Polonius ‘bloody..

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deed’

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Act 4 Scene 1- Hamlet sent to England Claudius ‘ liberty is..

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full of threats to all’

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Claudius- ‘ foul…

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disease’

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Claudius-‘ call up their…

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wisest friends’

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Act 4 Scene 2- Hamlet with Polonius’ body-‘ Compounded it..

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with dust’

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Hamlet to describe R and G as sponges- ‘ soak up the..

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kings countenance’

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Hamlet to R and G- ‘The king..

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is not with the body’

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Act 4 Scene 4- Fortinbras’s army- ‘ thoughts be bloody…

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they are nothing worth’

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Hamlet needs to sharpen his ‘ dull..

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revenge’

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Fortinbras’s ‘divine..

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ambition

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Act 4 scene 5- Ophelia madness- Grief is seen as

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‘poison’ in Denmark

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People supporting Laertes- ‘Laertes shall..

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be king’

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Claudius to describe Ophelia- ‘Poison of…

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deep grief’

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Daisies are a symbol of..

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innocence

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Ophelia-‘ We know what we are..

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but know not what we may be’

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Act 4 Scene 6- Pirates- Deus-

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ex machine- a last minute turns of events where the protagonist is rescued from death.

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Act 4 Scene 7- Ophelia death ‘mermaid..

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like’

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Gertrude-‘ Fantastic..

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Garlands’

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Act 5 Scene 1- gravediggers scene ‘Christian..

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burial’

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Skull- Yoricks ‘ a fellow..

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of infinite jest’

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Hamlets love for Ophelia is greater than ‘forty thousand..

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brothers’

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Act 5 Scene 2- The denouement- Hamlet-‘ whored..

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my mother’

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Laertes says the Hamlet that he ‘receives..

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his offered love’

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Laertes- ‘the king..

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is to blame’ then dies

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Hamlet dies goodbye to ‘wretched

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Queen’

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Hamlet-‘ Death is..

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strict in his arrest’

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Horatio-‘ Goodnight..

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sweet prince’

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Fortinbras- ‘so many..

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princes’ dead

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Hamlet- ‘The rest..

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is silence’

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Hamlet- My thoughts be…

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bloody or be nothing worth’

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Hamlet to Claudius-Follow..

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My mother’

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Hamlet- Now I could..

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drink hot blood’

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R+G betrayal- ‘but we..

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both obey’

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Revenge- Hamlet- ‘A villain..

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kills my father’

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Revenge- Hamlet- ‘ so art thou to revenge..

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when thou shalt hear’

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Sex- ‘ do you think..

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I mean country matters’

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Time- ‘ the time..

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is out of joint’

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Memory- ‘ there is a divinity..

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that shapes our ends’