Mistrust, Paranoia & Spying Flashcards
(5 cards)
Claudius Spying & Betrayal
Surveillance: “bend you to remain here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye, our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son”
Ultimate Betrayal: “Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand Of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatched,”
“That he, as ’twere by accident, may here Affront Ophelia. Her father and myself (lawful espials) Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing unseen, We may of their encounter frankly judge, And gather by him, as he is behaved, If ’t be the affliction of his love or no That thus he suffers for.”
“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”
“Even his mother shall uncharge the practice, and call it accident”
Hamlet’s cynicism in a dishonest world 2.2
‘To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand’
POLONIUS Spying
Send Reynaldo “to make inquiry of his behaviour” and “put on him what forgeries you please”
About Hamlet and Queen meeting: “I’ll be placed, so please you, in the ear Of all their conference.”
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Spying
“to gather, So much as from occasion you may glean, Whether aught, to us unknown, afflicts him thus That, opened, lies within our remedy.”
“You were sent for, and there is a kind of confession in your looks which your modesties have not craft enough to color. I know the good king and queen have sent for you.”
Rosencrantz: “Niggard of question, but of our demands Most free in his reply.”
“a sponge…that soaks up the king’s countenance”…the King “keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw”
Hamlet Spying
Hamlet feels he “must hold my tongue.”
“Observe my uncle:if his occulted guilt do not itself unkennel…it is a damned ghost”
paranoia about ophelia: “are you honest…where’s your father? at home, my lord.”
