Religion, Honour and Revenge - Hamlet Flashcards
(30 cards)
Final religious imagery - Horatio 5:2
‘and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest’
Fate - Hamlet 5:2
‘there’s a divinity that shapes our ends’
Pressure for vengeance - Ghost 1:5
‘if thou hast nature in thee bear in not’
Honour - Hamlet 2:2
‘what a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties’
Predestination - Hamlet 5:2
‘that was heaven ordinant’
Demand for revenge - Ghost 1:5
‘revenge this foul and most unnatural murder’
Protestant view of the Ghost - Hamlet 1:4
‘be thou a spirit of health or a goblin damned’
Psychological act of vengeance - Hamlet 2:2
‘the play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King’
Symbolism of the Ghost - Horatio 1:1
‘this bodes some strange eruption to our state’
Dishonour and prayer - Claudius 3:3
‘my words fly up, my thought remain below; words without thought never to heaven go’
Purgatory and avenging - Ghost 1:5
‘till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purg’d away’
Conflict of religion and revenge - Hamlet 3:3
‘I, his sole son, do the same villain send to heaven’
Fate and revenge - Hamlet 1:5
‘the time is out of joint. O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right’
Dramatic irony, reference to the burden of revenge - Claudius 3:1
‘this something-settled matter in his heart’
Religious beliefs around suicide prevent him from action - Hamlet 1:2
‘or that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon ‘gainst self-slaughter’
Juxtaposes himself to a hero of action and traditional heroism - Hamlet 1:2
‘no more like my father than I to Hercules’
Mistrusting the Ghost - Hamlet 2:2
‘the devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape’
The transactional outcome of killing Claudius in prayer - Hamlet 3:3
‘this is hire and salary, not revenge’
No opportunity for confession - Ghost 1:5
‘in the blossoms of my sin’
No opportunity for confession - Hamlet 3:3
‘with all his crimes broad blown’
Reason why Hamlet won’t kill Claudius in prayer - Hamlet 3:3
‘he is fit and season’d for his passage’
The ideal moment to kill Claudius - Hamlet 3:3
‘in the incestuous pleasure of his bed […] or about some act that has no relish of salvation in’t’
Imagery of illness - Hamlet 3:3
‘this physic but prolongs thy sickly days’
Ideal for Claudius’ soul - Hamlet 3:3
‘his soul may be as damn’d and black as hell’
