key quotations Flashcards
Hamlet in an aside about Claudius.
When Claudius and Gertrude are talking to Hamlet after their wedding about his long mourning.
“A little more than kin and less than kind.”
Polonius to Laertes about being himself
” to thine own self be true.”
Marcellus to Horatio
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
Ghost to Hamlet about the murder
“The serpent that did sting they fathers life / Now wears his crown.”
Hamlet, soliloquy. He feels constrained not to complain but is disgusted by their relationship. The
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
Hamlet to Horatio. The supernatural atmosphere increases as Hamlet maintains that science and rationality cannot explain everything in the universe.
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio/Than are dreamt of in your philosophy”
Hamlet soliloquy. Hamlet berates himself, having seen the passion of the players, for not acting on his own passionate desire for revenge.
Oh what a rogue and peasant slave am I
gertrude on Hamlet’s madness
“mad as he sea and wind, where both contend / which is mightier”
ophelia on Laertes hypocrisy
(do not) “show me the steep and thorny way to heaven…whilst himself the primrose path of dalliance treads”
Polonius’s spying
“give every man thy ear, but few thy voice”
Hamlet on first seeing the ghost
“bring with thee airs of heaven, or blasts from hell….i will speak to thee”
polonius on Hamlet’s madness
“though this be madness, yet there is method in’t”
hamlet to ophelia about sin
“why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners”
Ophelia on Hamlet’s madness
“blasted with ecstasy”
Hamlet on Horatio’s dependability
“give me that man that is not passion’s slave, and i will wear him in my hearts core…as i do thee”
