Religion Quotes Flashcards
the ghost and religious symbolism
“swear by his sword” - the sword resembling a cross
hamlet’s pious language (3)
“damned incest”
“why would’st thou be a breeder of sinners”
“and so he goes to heaven, and so i am revenged”
Hamlet’s reason for not killing himself
“the dread of something after death (the undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveller returns)”
the ghost’s suggestion that he is in Purgatory
“Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature / Are burnt and purg’d away”
Hamlet on the night and the supernatural
“when hell itself breathes out contagion into this world”
Hamlets transition from relying on the ghost to being independant
“scourge and minister”
“I am Hamlet the Dane”
Ophelia hinting at premarital sex
“let in the maid, that out a maid never departed more”
