Relationships Flashcards
(11 cards)
LOVE- Hamlet
Horatio:
‘I would not hear your enemy say so, nor shall you do my ear that violence’ - to horatio
Love of friends in A1S5, “With all my love I do commend me to you, And what so poor a man as Hamlet is May do, to express his love and friending to you”
hamlet’s love for Horatio: “Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish, her election Hath sealed thee for herself, for thou hast been— As one in suffering all that suffers nothing…Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled…not a pipe for fortune’s finger…not passion’s slave”
Ophelia:
“The fair Ophelia! - Nymph…words of so sweet breath composed As made the things more rich…I did love you once ”
Hamlet seemed to have much affection for Ophelia before, calling her ”the celestial and my soul’s idol” in his letters
“I loved Opelia; forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum”
R&G:
Initially calls R+G “My excellent good friends!” and jokes about “Fortune’s…privates / the secret parts of Fortune” BECAUSE they shared “the consonancy of our youth”
LATER: “my two schoolfellows, whom i will trust as i will adders fang’d”…”tis most sweet when in one line two crafts directly meet”
“the great love the general gender bear him”
Laertes:
Shows love and loyalty towards Laetres, agreeing that “he is the card or calendar of gentry”
Listens to Gerrude’s advice to “use some gentle entertainment to Laertes” = befriend again = by “disclaiming from a purpose evil” Laetres “is satified in nature” and does “recieve [his] offer’d love like love…ill be your foil…yet tis almost ‘gainst my conscince”
LAERTES about HAMLET’S relationship with OPHELIA in Act 1, Scene 3
‘Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,
1.2Laetres believes Hamlet’s love to be “he trifling of his favor…toy in blood…The perfume and suppliance of a minute. No more.”
Sexualisation of innocent love: “ your chaste treasure open To his unmastered importunity.”
Laetres compares sex to “canker galls…contagious blastments”
Hamlet AND R&G 2.2
‘My excellent good friends…the rights of our fllowship, the consonancy of our youth, the obligation of our ever-preserved love’
gertrude 2.2 ‘Two men there is not living to whom he more adheres’
ALL THE WAY TO ‘‘My two schoolfellows whom I will trust as I will adders fanged’ in 3.4
pol & oph
Polonius says “I have a daughter I love passing well”
Hamlet’s last look of Ophelia 2.1
“ Long stayed he so… He raised a sigh so piteous, and profound, as it did seem to shatter all his bulk, and end his being…to the last bender their light on me”
Hamlet & Ophelia relationship insight before ‘nunnery’ 3.1
’the fair Ophelia - Nymph…words of so sweet breath composed as made the things more rich. Their perfumes lost…rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind’
Sense of what has been lost in hamlets madness by Ophelia 3.1
‘Oh what a nobel mind is here o’erthrown! The coutrier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s, eye, tongue, sword…[Hamlet’s] nobel and most sovereign reason’
Laertes Love
When he sees Ophelia: “tears seven times salt, burn out the sense and virtue of mine eyes…dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia…hadst thou thy wits and didst persuade revenge, it could not move thus”
About Ophelia’s love for Polonius: “nature is fine in love and where tis fine it sends some precious instance of itself after the thing it loves”
Claudius and Gertrude
Claudius claims love of her: “she’s so conjunctive to my life and soul, that, as the star moves not but in his sphere, i could not but by her” BUT LATER lies when she is dying “she swounds to see them bleed”
Betrayal of Claudius: A4S1: Only scene with Gertude & Claudius alone and, significantly, they lie to each other (Gertrude says Hamlet is “mad as the sea and wind / lawless fit / brainish apprehension” ‘weeps for what is done’, while Claudius says his ‘love’ for Hamlet was ‘so much’). Claudius also says little regard for Polonius’s death here: ‘It had been so with us, had we been there’
Hamlet comments that there is a lack of loyalty in the land
using a theatrical comparison: “those that would make mouths at him while my father lived give twenty, forty, fifty, a hundred ducats apiece for his picture in little. “
Horatio’s loyalty
Horatio says he shall tell Hamlet of the ghost “as needful in our loves, fitting our duty”
“report me and my cause aright…I am more an antique Roman than a Dane, here’s yet some liquor left…if thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, absent thee from felicity awhile” = cyclical, hamlet emotively appeals for life, as ghost did death
“Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest”
