Key quotes Hamlet Flashcards
(113 cards)
1
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opening line
A
‘who’s there?’
2
Q
Ghost - horatio says
A
‘tis but our fantasy’
3
Q
Marcellus - ‘thou art
A
a scholar; speak to it Horatio’
4
Q
Horatio and the Ghost - ‘it harrows
A
me with fear and wonder’ - ghost associated with fear even in himself
5
Q
1.1 Fortinbras
A
‘mettle hot and full’
compared to Hamlet 4.4
6
Q
claudius describing gertrude
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‘imperial jointress to this warlike state’
7
Q
1.2 - ‘with
A
mirth in funeral and dirge in marriage’
8
Q
fortinbras always described as ‘young’
A
- family name
- less of a threat - only a youngster
9
Q
hamlet’s first line
A
aside - ‘a little more than kin, and less than kind’
10
Q
Gertrude’s plea in 1.2 to ‘cast
A
thy nighted colour off’
11
Q
hamlet’s grief is ‘a fault
A
to heaven’
‘a fault to nature’
12
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wittenberg - ‘it is
A
most retrograde to our desire’
13
Q
hamlet’s first soliloquy
A
‘o that this too too solid flesh would melt’
14
Q
‘two months
A
dead’
15
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‘frailty thy
A
name is woman’ 1.2 soliloquy
16
Q
‘she married. o most wicked speed..
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to incestuous sheets’
17
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Horatio - ‘he was a
A
goodly king’ 1.2
18
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1.2 - ‘foul deeds
A
will rise’ (hamlet)
19
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laertes says that hamlet’s love is
A
‘perhaps he loves you NOW’ (contrast to polonius)
20
Q
‘these few
A
precepts’
21
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precepts
A
‘give every man thy ear’
‘neither a borrower nor a lender be’
‘thou canst not then be false to any man’
22
Q
‘tis in my
A
memory lock’d, and you yourself shall keep the key of it’
23
Q
‘tis in my memory locked’
‘what is it that he hath said to you’
A
‘something touching the Lord Hamlet’
shows how weak she is
24
Q
‘he has of late made many
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tenders of his affection to me’
25
‘affection! Pooh!
you speak like a green girl’
26
‘i do not know, my
lord, what i should think’
27
‘ophelia, do not
believe his vows’ 1.3
28
‘i shall obey
my lord’
29
hamlet’s response to seeing the ghost
‘angels and ministers of grace defend us!’
30
when the ghost beckons to hamlet to come alone
‘my fate cries out’
31
marcellus’s famous line
‘something is rotten in the state of denmark’ 1.4
32
the ghost’s story would
‘freeze up thy young blood’
33
‘revenge his
foul and most unnatural murder’
34
‘the serpent that
did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown’
35
ghost describing claudius
‘that incestuous, that adulterate beast’
36
soliloquy after hamlet finds out about OKH and the murder
‘o all you host of heaven’
37
‘o villain villain
smiling damned villain’
(o all you host of heaven soliloquy)
38
‘these are but wild
and whirling words my lord’
39
‘o cursed spite
that i was ever born to set it right’
40
polonius spying on laertes’s
‘drinking, fencing, swearing, quarrelling’
41
‘by indirections
find directions out’
wider metaphor for the play
42
ophelia’s fear
‘my lord i have been so affrighted’
hamlet comes into her ‘closet’
43
polonius - ‘this is the very
ecstasy of love’
44
‘as you did command,
I did repel his letters and denied his access to me’
45
gertrude’s idea for the ‘source of your son’s distemper’
‘his father’s death and our o’erhasty marriage’
46
gertrude’s power
‘more matter, with less art’
47
‘i’ll loose
my daughter to him’
48
hamlet to polonius - ‘you are
a fishmonger’
49
who says ‘though this be madness, yet there is method in’t’
polonius
50
hamlet - ‘these tedious
old fools!’
51
rosencrantz - ‘the world’s
grown honest’
52
‘denmark’s
a prison’
53
‘i know the good king
and queen have sent for you’ R+G
54
hamlet to the players
‘you are welcome: but my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived’
55
hamlet’s madness to R+G
‘i am but mad north-north-west’
56
‘o what a rogue
and peasant slave am i’
‘i am pigeon-livered and lack gall’
57
2.2 final line
‘the plays the thing, wherein i’ll catch the conscience of the king’
58
claudius’s attitude to hamlet’s madness
‘dangerous and turbulent lunacy’
59
claudius calls himself a
lawful espial
60
‘the fair ophelia!
nymph’
61
‘get thee
to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners”
62
‘God has given you
one face and you make yourselves another’
63
ophelia’s soliloquy
‘o what a noble mind here is oerthrown’
‘o woe is me, to have seen what i have seen’
64
‘he shall with speed
to england’ Claudius
65
horatio to hamlet 3.2
‘sweet lord’
‘at your service’
66
polonius and acting
‘you played once in the universtiy?’
‘ that did I, and was accounted a good actor’
Julius Caesar - assassinated for becoming too powerful - foreshadowing for 2 scenes time
67
hamlet to ophelia players scene x2
‘shall i lie in your lap’
‘tis brief my lord like a woman’s love’
68
players scene - ‘my father died
within these two hours’
69
player queen
‘a second time i kill my husband dead when second husband kisses me in bed’
70
‘free souls
it touches us not’
71
‘give me some light
away!’
72
hamlet to R+G - ‘my wit’s
diseased’
73
‘will you play upon this pipe?
tis as easy as lying’
74
75
cloud
‘camel’
‘weasel’
‘whale’
3.2
76
‘i will speak
daggers to her but use none’
3.2
77
‘now i could
drink hot blood’
3.2
78
now i might do it pat
now he is praying
79
claudius’s soliloquy x3
o my offence is rank it smells to heaven
i still possess my crown, mine own ambition and my queen
my words fly up my thoughts remain below
80
‘incestuous pleasure
of his bed’
81
‘you are the queen, your husband’s
brother’s wife and - would it were not so! - my mother’
82
‘a rat?
dead for a ducat, dead!’
83
‘o what a rash and
bloody deed is this’ 3.4
84
‘you cannot call it love
at your age’
85
86
‘to live in the rank sweat
of an enseamed bed, stew’d in corruption’
87
‘go not to
my uncle’s bed’
88
sponge
‘that soaks up the king’s countenance, his rewards, his authorities’
89
‘the king is a thing
of nothing’
90
‘two
thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats’
91
which speech is the 4.4 action
‘how all occasions do inform against me’
92
‘my thoughts be
bloody or nothing worth’ 4.4
93
ophelia song
‘before you tumbled me you promised me to wed’
94
claudius’s reasoning for ophelia’s madness
‘o this is the poison of deep grief’
95
herbs ophelia
‘rosemary thats for remembrance’
‘pansies thats for thoughts’
96
‘where the offence is
let the great axe fall’
97
laertes - ‘so have i a
noble father lost’
98
‘to cut his throat
in the church’
99
‘her clothes
spread wide and mermaid-like’
100
‘too much of water
hast thou, poor ophelia’
101
‘se
offendendo’ (meant to be se defendendo)
102
‘why may not that be the
skull of a lawyer’
103
‘yorick’s skull,
the king’s jester’
104
‘a ministering
angel shall my sister be’
105
‘this is I
hamlet the dane’ 5.1
106
‘i loved ophelia,
forty thousand brothers could not with all their love make up my sum’
107
‘providence in the fall of a sparrow.
if it be not now, yet it will come’
108
during the swordfight
‘they are incensed’ (C)
109
how the two address each other whilst fighting in 5.2
‘come on sir’ - hamlet to laertes
‘come my lord’ - laertes to hamlet
110
“i will my lord (drink)
i pray you pardon me”
111
‘goodnight
sweet prince’
112
‘the rest i
s silence’
113
‘go
bid the soldiers shoot’ (Fortinbras)
