Karteikarten
Hamlet Quotes
Karten in diesem Stapel (32)
- 1"Why I will fight with him upon this theme Until my eyelids will no longer wag." -Power, HamletThe serpent that did sting thy father's life
Now wears his crown."
-Power, Ghost - 2"I have sent to seek him and to find the body. How dangerous is is that this man goes loose!" -Power, Claudius"It is most retrograde to our desire,
And we beseech you bend you to remain
Here in the cheer and comfort of our eye."
-Power, Claudius - 3"Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son." -Power, Claudius"Here, thou incestuous, murd'rous damned
Dane,
Drink this potion."
-Power, Hamlet - 4"Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.." -Love, Hamlet"Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven."
-Love, Ghost - 5"Haste, haste me to know it, that I with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love May sweep to my revenge." -Love, Hamlet"I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers
Could not - with all their quantity of love -
Make up my sum."
-Love, Hamlet - 6"He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders Of his affections to me." -Love, Ophelia"But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue."
-Duty, Hamlet - 7"The time is out of joint: O, cursed spite That ever I was born to set it right!" -Duty, Hamlet"Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder."
-Duty, Ghost - 8"I shall in all my best obey you, madam." -Duty, Hamlet"I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw."
-Deceit&Lies, Hamlet - 9"Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death The memory be green, and that it us befitted To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom To be contracted in one brow of woe." -Deceit&Lies, Claudius"O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!"
-Deceit&Lies, Hamlet - 10"That I essentially am not in madness, But mad in craft." -Deceit&Lies, Hamlet"Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy."
-Deceit&Lies - 11"This above all: To thine own self be true. -Deceit&Lies, Polonious"O, bosom bosom black as death!"
-Death, Claudius & heart - 12"Drink of this potion. Is thy union here? Follow my mother." -Death, Hamlet"O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!"
-Death, Hamlet - 13"her death was doubtful." -Death, Priest"I am justly killed with mine own treachery."
-Death, Laertes - 14"I do not set my life at a pins fee." -Life&Death, Hamlet"Lay her in'th earth:
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring."
-Death, Laertes - 15"The apparition comes. I knew your father: These hands are not more like." -Loyalty&Betrayal, Horatio"Let the doors be shut upon him that he may play
The fool nowhere but in's own house. Farewell."
-Loyalty&Betrayal, Hamlet - 16"But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two." -Loyalty&Betrayal, Hamlet"O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!"
-Loyalty&Betrayal, Hamlet - 17"A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body." -Loyalty&Betrayal, Hamlet"I'll speak to it through hell itself should gape
And bid me hold my peace."
-Loyalty&Betrayal, Hamlet - 18"A villain kills my father, and, for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven." -Revenge, Hamlet"When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage,
Or in th' incestuous pleasure of his bed,
At gaming, swearing, or about some act
That has no relish of salvation in't."
-Revenge, Hamlet - 19"Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." -Thought vs Action, Hamlet"That the ever lasting had not fixed his cannon-gainst self-slaughter."
-Thought vs Action, Hamlet - 20"Almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry his brother." -Thought vs Action, Hamlet"Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;
And now I'll do't.
And so he goes to heaven."
-Thought vs Action, Hamlet - 21HAMLET"With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!"
-Hamlet is obsessed and disgusted by women's sexual desires. - 22"Alas he is mad." -Madness can lead to denial, but will always lead to acceptance."with wings as swift
As meditation or the thoughts of love,
May sweep to my revenge.."
- Eager to avenge with motivation of love. - 23GERTRUDE"Takes off the rose from the fair forehead of an innocent love and sets a blister there."
-Gertrude is vulnerable able to being sexually corrupted by men. - 24"These words like daggers in mine ears." -Gertrude always overpowered by men - phallocentricity."The lady protests too much, methinks."
-Ironic = talking about player queen will never marry after Old Hamlet - could be guilty conscience to justify own actions. - 25"Good Hamlet, cast thy nightly colour off." -Gertrude has stopped grieving or trying to be politically logical?"Mother, you have thy father much offended."
-Gertrude's betrayal. - 26LAERTES"Too much of water hast through poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears."
-Typical man. - 27"I'll be revenged most thoroughly for my father." -Typical revenger with more honour than wit."A ministering angel shall my sister be
When thou liest howling."
-Laertes loved his sister so much that loosing her unleashes blasphemous ideas, forshadows act of revenge. - 28OPHELIA""I do not know, my lord, what I should think."
-Submissive. - 29"As you did command, I did repel his letters and denied his access to me." -Obeys."Before you tumbled me,
You promised me to wed."
-Could have given herself to Hamlet on a false promise. - 30THE GHOST"And for the day confined to fast in fires,
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
Are burnt and purged away."
-Wasn't - 31"Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell." -Old Hamlet or darker demon"When I to sulphurous tormenting flames
Must render up myself."
-Suffering in death worse than in life - 32"Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, A serpent stung me." -Allusion to Garden of Eden
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- AS - Level Literature Karteikarten am Hamlet Quotes, erstellt von Sophie Breckill am 19/05/2016.
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