Hamet quotes by theme

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Appearance vs. Reality

  • 'rank corruption infects unseen' H to G - A3, S4, line147
  • 'Seems, madam? I know not seems' H - A1, S2, line 76
  • 'most seeming virtuous Queen' OH - A1, S5, line 46
  • 'put an antic disposition on' H - A1, S5, line 171
  • 'above all: to thine own self be true' vs. 'the apparl oft proclaims the man' P - A1, S3, line 72 + 78
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Deception/ Lies

  • 'Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed things rank and gross in nature' H - A1, S2, line 135
  • 'the will of my most seemingly virtuous queen' OH - A1, S5, line 45
  • 'put an antic disposition on' H - A1, S2, line 171
  • 'I essentially am not in madness but mad in craft' H - A3, S4, line 186
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Corruption/ Decay

  • 'Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed things rank and gross in nature' H - A1, S2, line 136
  • 'avenge his most foul and unnatural murder' OH -A1, S5, line 25
  • 'the serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown' OH - A1, S5, line 38
  • 'O, villian, villian, smiling, damned villian' H of C - A1, S5, line 106
  • 'Somthing is rotten in the state of Demark' Marcellus - A1, S4, line 95
  • 'O my offence is rank: it smells to heaven' C - A3, S3, line 37
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Sexual Perversion

  • 'the canker galls the infants of the spring' L to O - A1, S3, line 42
  • 'in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed/ stewed in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty.' H - A3, S4, line 93
  • 'she would hang on him like an increase of appetite had grown' H of G - A1, S2, line 144
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Madness

  • 'though this be madness here is method in it' P - A2, S2, line 195
  • 'my father's died within two hours' H/ 'nay tis twice two months my lord' O - A3, S2, line 115
  • 'these are but wild and whirling words, my lord' Horatio to H - A1, S5, line 136
  • 'I will be brief: your noble son is mad' P - A2, S2, line 94
  • 'turbulent and dangerous lunacy' C - A3, S1, line 4
  • 'my too much changed son.' G of H - A2, S2, line 36
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Religion

  • 'O that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon 'gainst self- slaughter' H - A1, S2, line 131
  • 'tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed things rank and gross in nature.' H - A1, S2, line 135 (Garden of Eden)
  • 'serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown' OH - A1, S5, line 39
  • 'how the knave jowls it to the ground as if it were Cain's jaw bone tha did the first murder.' H - A5, S1, line 83 (Cain and Abel first stroy of fratricide in the play, reference three times in play)
  • 'prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell' H - A2, S2, line 547
  • 'the spirit i have seen may be the de'il, and the de'il hath power to assume a pleasing shape' H - A2, S2, line 561
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Mortality/ Death

  • 'O that this too too solid flesh would melt' H - A2, S2, line 129
  • 'but break my heart, for i must hold my tongue.' H - A1, S2, line 160
  • 'he raised a sigh so piteous and profound as it did seem to shatter all his bulk and end his being.' O - A2, S1, line 94
  • 'but two months dead, nay not so much, not two.' H - A1, S2, line 139
  • 'I will speak daggers to her but use none.' H to G - A3, S2, line 158
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Revenge

  • 'revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.' OH - A1, S5, line 25
  • 'a damned defeat was made. Am i a coward?' H - A2, S2, line 530
  • 'and so a goes to heave/ and so am i revenged! That would be scanned.' H to C - A3, S3, line 75
  • 'i dare damnation... I'll be revenged most throughly for my father.' L - A4, S5, line 107
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Love/ Sex

  • 'all your chaste treasure open to his unmastered importunity/ Fear it, Ophelia, fear it my dear sister.' L - A1, S3, line 31
  • 'Get thee to a nunnery!' H to O - A3, S1, line 139
  • 'why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?' H to O - A3, S1, line 139
  • 'nay but to live in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, stewed in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty.' H - A3, S4, line 93
  • 'she would hang on him as if increase of appetite had grown by what it fed on.' H of G - A1, S2, line 143
  • 'I love Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum.' H - A5, S1, line 247
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Family Loyalty

  • 'A little more than kin, and less than kind' H - A1, S2, line 65
  • 'She married. O, most wicked speed, to post/ With such decterity to incestuous sheets!' H - A1, S2, line 157
  • 'The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen.' OH - A1, S5, line 46
  • 'Thus was i, sleeping, by a brother's hand/ Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd:' OH - A1, S5, line 74
  • 'Hamlet, thou hadt thy father much offended' G vs 'Mother, you have my father much offended' H - A3, S4, line 9
  • 'Let come what comes; only i'll be revenged/ Most throughly for my father.' L - A4, S5, line 109
  • 'He that hath kill'd my king and whored my mother.' H - A5, S2, line 69
  • 'You are the queen, your husband's brother's wife.' H of G - A3, S4, line 15
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Art and Culture

  • 'to put an antic disposition on' H - A1, S2, line 171
  • 'Is it not monstrous hat this player here,/ But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,/ Could force his soul so to his own conceit.' H -A2, S2, line 510
  • 'He that plays the King shall be welcome' H -A2, S2, line 300
  • 'you from England,/ Are here arrived, give order that these bodies/ High on a stag be placed o the view.' Horatio -A5, S2, line 377
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Nature

  • 'Fie, 'tis a fault to heaven,/ A fault against the dead, a fault to nature.' C -A1, S2, line 102
  • 'tis an unweeded garden, that grows to seed things rank and gross in nature.' H -A1, S2, line 135
  • 'we fools of nature.' H to OH -A1, S4, line 57
  • 'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.' Marcellus -A1, S2, line 95
  • 'Lay her i'th'earth, and from her fair and unpolluted flesh, May violets spring.' L of O -A5, S1, line 213
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Women

  • 'Like Niobe, all tears' H - A1, S2, line 149
  • 'Frailty, thy name is woman.' H - A1, S2, line 146
  • 'I would offer you violets but they withered all when my father died.' O - A4, S5, line 145
  • 'She is so conjunctive to my life and soul.' C of G - A4, S7, line 14
  • 'From her fair and unpolluted flesh my violets spring.' L of O - A5, S1, line 213
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Duty

  • 'tis unmanly grief' H - A1, S2, line 95 (duty to be a man)
  • 'the expectation and rose of the state.' - A3, S1,  line 153
  • 'the time is out of joint: o cursed spie that ever i was born to set it right.' H - A1, S5, line 190
  • 'revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.' OH - A1, S5, line 25
  • 'be thou chaste as ice/ as pure as snow' O - A3, S1, line 137 (duty to be chaste)
  • 'i hold my duty as i hold my soul.' P - A2, S2, line 44
  • 'I dare damnation... I'll be revenged/ most throughly form my father.' L -A4,S5, line 107
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Time

  • 'the time is out of joint: o cursed spite/ That i was ever born to set it right' H - A1, S5, line 190
  • 'my too much changed son.' -G of H - A2, S2, line 36
  • 'look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died/ within's two hours.' H - A3, S2, line 113
  • 'who could bear the whips and scorns of time' H - A3, S1, line 71
  • 'I am more an antique Rome than a Dane.' Horatio - A5, S2, line 337
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