HamletBigBoy Flashcards
(25 cards)
Seems, madam? Nay, it is. I know not “seems,”
Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother…
But I have that within which passes show
These but the trappings and the suits of woe
Hamlet
Plot: I don’t seem sad/depressed, I am. Father dead, etc
Character: Hamlet is depressed
Themes: pretending, loss
O that his too too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the everlasting had not fixed his canon against self-slaughter... frailty, thy name is woman
Hamlet
Plot: soliloquy. Sets up why he hates Claudius
Character: Hamlet wants to kill himself, but is afraid of hell
Themes: suicide, revenge
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.
Farewell. My blessing season this in thee!
Polonius
Plot: Laertes is leaving, Polonius is giving him fatherly advice
Character: Polonius wants Laertes to be honest, is a good dad.
Themes: pretending(appearance vs reality)?, manhood
Haste me to know’t that I with wings as swift
as meditation or the thoughts of love
May sweep to my revenge
Hamlet
Plot: talking to the ghost. Says he will avenge his father’s death.
Character: Hamlet wants revenge, will kill for his dad
THemes: revenge, why does he delay, manhood?(decisive)
Sleeping within my orchard,
my custom always of the afternoon…
with juice of cursed hebona in a vial…
O horrible! O horrible! Most Horrible!….
The Ghost
Plot: How he says that Hamlet’s dad died.
Character: could be manipulating Hamlet. IDK if he is the devil or the dad
Themes: revenge, reality, sons avenge their fathers
O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
m tables- meet it is I set it down
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark.
So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word:
It is “adieu, adieu, remember me.”
I have sworn it.
Hamlet
Plot: vows revenge against Claudius
Character: Hamlet will kill for family
Themes: appearance(Claudius seems nice), revenge, sons avenge their fathers
At such time I’ll loose my daughter to him
Be you and I behind an arras then.
Mark the encounter. If he love her not,
And be not from his reason fallen thereon
Let me be no assistant for a state
but keep a farm and carters
Polonius
Plot: think Hamlet is crazy b/c Ophelia rejected him, want his reaction
Character: Polonius is crafty, loves spying
Themes: spying, appearance vs reality(what polonius thinks vs. truth)
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason,
How infinite in faculties, in form and moving how
express and admirable, in action how like an angel,
in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the
world, the paragon of animals: and yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
Hamlet
Plot: RC+GS trying to find out what is bothering Hamlet
Character: Hamlet is suicidalish, depressed, cant appreciate the world.
Themes: suicide, manhood
O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
Is it not monstrous that this player here,
but in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
Could force his soul so to his own conceit
That from her working all his visage waned…
What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her?…
THe play’s the thing
Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.
Hamlet: 2nd Great Soliloquy
Plot: the players just arrived
Character: Hamlet wants to know how the actor can be truly sad for Hecuba, as she doesn’t exist. His own life is much worse, and is real.
Themes: reality vs appearance, revenge
O, tis too true.
How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience
The harlot’s cheek, beautied with plastering art,
Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it than is my deed to my most painted word.
O heavy burden!
King/Claudius
Plot: abou to watch Hamlet and Ophelia.
Character: Claudius admits his guilt, and says it weighs down on him.
Theme: reality vs appearance, guilt
To be or not to be…
Hamlet: 3rd Soliloquy
Plot: being spied on by Polonius, Claudius
Character: wants to kill himself, but is afraid of the consequences
Theme: suicide, mortality, conscience?
O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!
THe courtier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s, eye, tongue, sword,
Th’ expectancy and rose of the fair state…
O, woe is me
T’ have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
Ophelia
Plot: Hamlet just yelled at her
Character: is sad for the loss of Hamlet, then is sorry for herself
Theme: insanity, loss
Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music… Though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Hamlet
Plot: Hamlet after the play, being confronted by RC+GS
Character: Hamlet knows they are trying to manipulate him, get information
Themes: spying, manipulation
Tis now the very witching time of night
When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world. Now I could drink hot blood…
I’ll speak daggers to her, but use none.
My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites…
Hamlet
Plot: About to go talk to his mom, after play. Polonius will spy on them.
Character: Hates what he has to do, but must. dislikes what his mother has done, but won’t hurt her.
Themes: revenge, pretending
Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent.
When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage
Or in th’ incestuous pleasure of his bed…
My mother stays.
This physic but prolongs thy sickly days
Hamlet
Plot: almost killed Claudius while he confessed
Character: Hamlet wants kill Claudius, but wants him to go to hell too, so won’t kill him while he is cleared of guilt
Theme: revenge, conscience/guilt
Do not forget. This visitation
Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.
But look, amazement on thy mother sits.
O, step between her and her fighting soul!
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works
Speak to her, Hamlet.
Ghost
Plot: Wants Hamlet to tell his mom about the murder, so he can get revenge
Character: the ghost wants Hamlet to get revenge for him, regardless of the cost
Themes: revenge(duh), manipulation
And, England, if my love thou hold’st at aught-
as my great power thereof may give thee sense…
Do it England,
For like the hectic in my blood he rages, and thou muse cure me. Till I know ‘tis done,
Howe’er my haps, my joys were ne’er begun.
Claudius/King
Plot: sending away Hamlet to be killed. getting rid of him
CHaracter: has no problem with murder, unlike Hamlet. Hates Hamlet b/c he is ruining everything Claudius has worked for.
Themes: revenge, others?
How all occasions do inform against me
And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,
If his chief good and market of his time
But but to sleep and feed?…godlike reason… eggshell…
O, from this time forth,
My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
Hamlet
Plot: climax of the play, Just saw Fortinbras’s army
Character: turns into Macbeth. Bloody, bold, resolute. DOesn’t care what happens after he dies, just wants revenge
Themes: revenge, conscience, manhood, mortality
How came he dead? I’ll not be juggled with.
To hell allegiance, vows to the blackest devil.
Conscience and grace to the profoundest pit!
I dare damnation. TO this point I stand,
That both the worlds I give to negligence,
Let come what comes, only I’ll be revenged
Most thoroughly for my father
Laertes
Plot: Just came back, wants revenge for Polonius’s death
Character: is rash, impulsive, vengeful
Themes: revenge, manipulation(by claudius), mortality(doesn’t care where he goes)
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred to my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft…
Hamlet
Plot: Just came back from England, in graveyard by Ophelia’s future grave. Sees Yorick’s skull.
Character: What do we leave behind when we die?(memories)
Themes: mortality, curiosity, fate
There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will
Hamlet
Plot: Hamlet + Horatio. Talking about Hamlet’s escape.
Character: Hamlet accepts what will happen, not everything can be changed
Themes: fate
I shall win at the odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all’s here about my heart. But it is no matter.
Hamlet
Plot: about to fence w/ Laertes, the bet
Character: Hamlet accepts that he has to fight Laertes
Theme: fate, appearance vs reality
As th’ art a man,
Give me the cup. Let go. By heaven, I’ll ha’t!
O God, Horatio, what a wounded name,
Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!
If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,
Absent thee from felicity awhile,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,
To tell my story,
Hamlet
Plot: fatally wounded, wants to kill himself
Character: is dying, but wants to make it quicker. Wants Horatio to immortalize him
Themes: suicide, what do we leave behind, mortality
O, I die, Horatio!
The potent poison quite o’ercrows my spirit.
Hamlet
Plot: Hamlet dies after the duel w/ Laertes
Character: Hamlet is calm, accepts that he is dying
Themes: mortality, fate
