Hamlet Quotes

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  • Created on: 25-04-19 09:42
Disruption of the Natural Order
'Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder'
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Fortinbras is Reckless
'to be great is not to stir without great argument'
2 of 20
Incest between Claudius and Gertrude
'That incestuous, that adulterate beast'
3 of 20
Good Kingship on behalf of Claudius
'And where th'offence is, let the axe fall'
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Hamlet's Suicidal Depression
'O, that this too too solid flesh would melt'
5 of 20
A prior intimate relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia
'Before you tumbled me, you promised me to wed'
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Whether Hamlet is mad or not
'I am but mad, mad, northwest'
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Hamlet's determination and anger to avenge his father's death
'May sweep to my revenge'
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Hamlet's self-disgust at his inactivity
'O, from this time forth my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!'
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Hamlet is a philosopher and modern thinker (Marxist and Psychoanalytical gaze)
'God's bodkin, man, much better'
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Ophelia's capacity for rebellion
'By **** they are to blame'
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Ophelia's acquiescence to instruction
'I shall obey my Lord'
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Hamlet' fury and possible oedipal complex towards Gertrude
'O most pernicious woman'
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Hamlet's attack on Ophelia (hatred of women)
'Get thee to a nunnery'
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Hamlet might have made a good King
'But I am very sorry, good Horatio, that to Laertes I fought myself; For by the image of my cause I see the portrait of his'
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Theme of deceit and deception
'That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain'
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Claudius' confession/inability to repent for it
'My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: words without thoughts never to heaven go'
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Laertes' kingly qualities
'But let him come'
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Polonius capable of great wisdom
'To thine own self be true'
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Evidence of purgatory in 'Hamlet'
'Doom'd for a certain term to walk nights and for the day confined to fast in fires'
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Fortinbras is Reckless

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Incest between Claudius and Gertrude

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Good Kingship on behalf of Claudius

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Hamlet's Suicidal Depression

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