Hamlet Key Quotes

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Hamlet's first soliloquy, opinion of C&G marriage
"Married with thy uncle, my father's brother, but no more like my father than I am to Hercules."
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Polonius and Ophelia's relationship
"I do not know, my Lord, what I should think." "I shall obey my lord"
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Ophelia and Laertes relationship in reference to Hamlet
"tis in my memory locked and you yourself hold the key"
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Horatio foreshadowing Hamlet's death because of madness
"What if it tempts you towards the flood, my lord, or to the dreadful summit of the cliff"
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Hamlet to Gertrude, A1S5
"Oh pernicious women!"
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Hamlet madness
"Put on an antic disposition" "Oh cursed spite, that ever I was born to put it right!"
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Polonius, Hamlet is mad because of his love for Ophelia
"Mad for thy love?" "Repelling of Hamlet's letters and denied access to her. This has sent him mad"
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Hamlet, opinion of Denmark
"Denmark is a prison."
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Hamlet soliloquy, A2S2
"Am I a coward?" "Oh vengeance, what an *** I am!" "Fie upon't; foh!" (my father has been murdered and I need to avenge, I need to get my act together)
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Gertrude's hopes for Hamlet's madness
"I do wish that your good beauties be the happy cause of Hamlet's wildness"
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Hamlet being misogynistic towards Ophelia
"Get thee to a nunnery"
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women's ability to deceive, Hamlet
"God hath given you one face , and you make yourself another" Makeup
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Claudius opinion on madness
"Madness in great ones must not go unwatched" A3S1
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Hamlet misogynistic towards Ophelia
O: "Tis brief, my lord" H: "as women's love"
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Claudius reaction to the play within a play 'Mousetrap'= he is guilty
The king rises "Give me some light-away!" "A brother's murder. Pray can I not."
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Hamlet's relationship with his mother,Gertrude
"I will speak with daggers but use none"
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Claudius view of his murder
"Of those effects for what I did the murder. My crown, mine own ambition and my Queen."
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Why Hamlet doesn't kill Claudius in A3S3
"A villain kills my father and for that...I send him to heaven."
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Hamlet and the murder of Polonius
"A bloody deed. Almost as bad, good mother, as kill a King and marry with his brother."
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Hamlet and how he idolises his late father
"Eyes like mars" "to give the world assurance of a man" To Gertrude "Have you eyes?"
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Gertrude believes Hamlet to be mad after the chamber scene
"Mad as the sea and wind when not contend which is the mightier."
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Gertrude believes that Hamlet is truly mad but still a moral person
"His very madness, like some ore among a mineral of metal base...he weeps for what he has done."
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Hamlet final soliloquy
"Hath one part wisdom and ever three parts coward." "Why yet I lie to say 'this thing's to do...I have cause, and will, and strength, and means, to do't"
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Ophelia's flower imagery, Laertes
"There's rosemary (remembrance and love) and pansies (remembrance and memory)"
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Ophelia's flower imagery, Claudius
"Fennel (adultery and foolishness) and columbines (deceived lovers and foolishness)"
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Ophelia's flower imagery, Gertrude
"Rue (genuine repentance and suffering) and daisies (innocence and heart-broken lovers)"
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Ophelia's flower imagery, Violets
Innocence and faithfulness "Withered when her father died" and laid on her grave at her funeral by Laertes
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Hamlet's opinion of death
"Dost thou think Alexander looked o'this fashioni'th earth?" H: "E'en so" = everyone looks the same when they die, no matter what their status of life they lead.
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Hamlet's love for Ophelia
"I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love, make up my sum"
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Hamlet's excuse for killing Polonius
"That might you nature...I proclaim was madness"
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Claudius' love for Gertrude
"Gertrude do not drink!" "I will my Lord: I pray you pardon me."
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Hamlet's opinion on Women
"Frailty is thy women!"
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Laertes as a good revenger, going against faith
"To cut his throat i' the church" "To look him in thy eye"
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Hamlet's view of Claudius and Gertrude's relationship
"O wicked speed, to such dexterity to incestuous sheets."
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The Ghost A1S5
"I am thy father's spirit"
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"I do not know, my Lord, what I should think." "I shall obey my lord"

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Polonius and Ophelia's relationship

Card 3

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"tis in my memory locked and you yourself hold the key"

Back

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Card 4

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"What if it tempts you towards the flood, my lord, or to the dreadful summit of the cliff"

Back

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Card 5

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"Oh pernicious women!"

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