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Hamlet - Corruption Quotes
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- 1"Frailty, thy name is woman." [1x2]Hamlet speaking.
Misogyny, moral corruption. - 2"Oh most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets." "The funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables." [1x2]Hamlet talking about his mother's hasty marriage to Claudius.
Gertrude and Claudius are joined in their corrupt behaviour. - 3"The serpent that did sting thy father's life Now wears his crown." [1x5]Ghost of King Hamlet reveals that Claudius killed him in order to take the crown for himself - POLITICAL AND MORAL CORRUPTION.
- 4"That incestuous, that adulterate beast." [1x5]Ghost calls Claudius this.
"Adulterate" - were Claudius and Gertrude having an affair prior to King Hamlet's death? Moral corruption. - 5"My most seeming virtuous queen." [1x5]Ghost talking about Gertrude.
Suggests that she is also corrupt, like Claudius. Was she unfaithful during their marriage? Was she aware of the plot to kill her husband? - 6To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather So much as from occasion as you may glean." [2x2]Claudius manipulates Rosencrantz + Guildenstern to spy on Hamlet, their close friend.
- 7"I'll loose my daughter to him. Be you and I behind an arras then." [2x2]Polonius planning to use Ophelia as bait so that he and Claudius can spy on Hamlet to find out whether or not he is mad.
Seems cruel after Ophelia's previous encounter with Hamlet which left her terrified. - 8"Get thee to a nunnery - Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?" [3x1]Hamlet attacks Ophelia with a barrage of insults, many of them sexist.
- 9"Lady, shall I lie in your lap?" [3x2]Hamlet's crude disrespect towards Ophelia. Addresses her as though she were a prostitute.
- 10"Refrain tonight." "Pinch wanton on your cheek." [3x4]Hamlet talks at unsettling length about his mother's sexual endeavours with Claudius, warning her to "refrain tonight" and not to let him "pinch wanton" on her cheek.
We see here a sort of moral and sexual corruption. He seems to have a perverted obsession with discussing Gertrude's sexual matters.
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- Leaving Certificate English Fichas sobre Hamlet - Corruption Quotes, creado por Órnaith Ní Fhearghail el 28/11/2018.
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