| Gertrude’s relationship with Hamlet | Act 3. Scene 4, pg2- “A horrible act—almost as bad, my good mother, as killing a king and marrying his brother” |
| How Hamlet feels about his mother’s second marriage | Act 3. Scene 4, pg3- “you’ve done a deed that plucks the soul out of marriage and turns religion into meaningless blather.” |
| How Gertrude effects how Hamlet feels/ mental state | Act 3. Scene 4, pg4- “You’re making me look into my very soul, where the marks of sin are so thick and black they will never be washed away.” |
| How Hamlet feels about his mother’s second marriage | Act 3. Scene 4, pg7- “Then throw away the worse half, and live a purer life with the other! Good night to you. But don’t go to my uncle’s bed tonight.” |
| How Hamlet feels about his mother | Act 3. Scene 4, pg7- “At least pretend to be virtuous, even if you’re not.” |
| How the Ghost has influenced Hamlet’s mind | Act 3. Scene 4, pg8- “God wanted to punish me with this murder, and this man with me, so I’m both Heaven’s executioner and its minister of justice.” |
| Hamlet’s response to his mother | Act 3. Scene 4, pg8- “I feel too dead to breathe a word of what you’ve told me.” |
| How Hamlet feels about his mothers sex life | Shmoop Editorial Team. “Hamlet in Hamlet” Shmoop.com. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 23 Feb. 2012. -“If you’ve read the play (and you should read the play), you’ve probably noticed that Hamlet is seriously angry with his mother. Not only that, Hamlet’s seriously angry that his mother has a sex life. Here’s what Hamlet says in his first soliloquy after he tells us he wants his “flesh” to “melt.” |
| What is a ghost? | According to dictionary.com”the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.” |
| What is the setting of Hamlet? | Hamlet takes place in medieval Denmark. In a time where Kings and Queens were still in charge. |
| What is Hamlet’s family background? | Hamlet is the son of late King Hamlet and Queen Gertrude. He was the only child in the royal family. |
| Did Hamlet have any other friends? | Hamlet was supposedly “in love” with Ophelia who is the daughter of Polonius. Hamlet is also friends with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern who are his best friends from school |
| Hamlet’s relationship with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | Hamlet and R&G go way back |
| R&G effect on Hamlet | Hamlet knows that R&G are being used by his uncle to find out why Hamlet acts the way that he acts. |
| How does Hamlet respond to this? | He lets his friends know that he knows what they are doing. |
| Do you think this effects Hamlet? | Yes, I believe it makes Hamlet even more determined to kill Claudius for the simple fact that he was even able to turn his own best friends against him. |
| Claudius and Hamlet before his encounter with his father’s ghost | Hamlet hates Claudius because he married his mother who was his sister in law |
| Claudius and Hamlet after his encounter with his father’s ghost | Hamlet loathes Claudius for not only sleeping with his mother every night but for murdering his father |
| Hamlet’s actions at the beginning of story | Hamlet was very quiet and sulky |
| Why did Hamlet act like this? | Hamlet acted like this because his father had just died and his mother remarried very very quickly |
| Quotes about family | Act 1, Scene 2, Line 6″A little month, or ere those shoes were oldWith which she follow’d my poor father’s body,Like Niobe, all tears:–why she, even she–O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,Would have mourn’d longer–married with my uncle,My father’s brother, but no more like my fatherThan I to Hercules.” |
| Quotes about family | Act 1, Scene 2, Line 6″She married. O, most wicked speed, to postWith such dexterity to incestuous sheets!It is not nor it cannot come to good:But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue. “ |
| Quotes about family | Act 1, Scene 3, Line 3″but you must fear,His greatness weigh’d, his will is not his own;For he himself is subject to his birth:He may not, as unvalued persons do,Carve for himself; for on his choice dependsThe safety and health of this whole state;And therefore must his choice be circumscribedUnto the voice and yielding of that bodyWhereof he is the head.” |
| Quotes about family | Act 1, Scene 1, Line 3″Then if he says he loves you,It fits your wisdom so far to believe itAs he in his particular act and placeMay give his saying deed; which is no furtherThan the main voice of Denmark goes withal.Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain,If with too credent ear you list his songs,Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure openTo his unmaster’d.” |
| Quotes about family | Act 1, Scene 4, Line 8″I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth,Have you so slander any moment leisure,As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.Look to’t, I charge you: come your ways.OPHELIA I shall obey, my lord.” |
| Quotes about family | Act 2, Scene 4, Line 4″and there put on himWhat forgeries you please; marry, none so rankAs may dishonour him; take heed of that;But, sir, such wanton, wild and usual slipsAs are companions noted and most knownTo youth and liberty.” |
| Quotes about family | Act 3, Scene 3, Line 3″O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven;It hath the primal eldest curse upon’t, A brother’s murder.” |
| Quotes about family | Act 3, Scene 4, Line 2″QUEEN GERTRUDE Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended. HAMLET Mother, you have my father much offended.” |
| Quotes about lies and deceit | Act 1, Scene 3, Line 1″POLONIUSThis above all: to thine ownself be true,And it must follow, as the night the day,Thou canst not then be false to any man.” |
| Quotes about lies and deceit | Act 1, Scene 5, Line 10″HAMLETO villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!My tables,—meet it is I set it down,That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;At least I’m sure it may be so in Denmark:” |
| Quotes about lies and deceit | Act 2, Scene 2, Line 12″At such a time I’ll loose my daughter to him:Be you and I behind an arras then;Mark the encounter:” |
| Quotes about lies and deceit | Act 2, Scene 2, Line 25″HAMLETYou were sent for; and there is a kind of confession in your lookswhich your modesties have not craft enough to colour:I know the good king and queen have sent for you.” |
| Quotes about lies and deceit | Act 3, Scene 1, Line 4″KING CLAUDIUS[Aside] O, ’tis too true!How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!The harlot’s cheek, beautied with plastering art,Is not more ugly to the thing that helps itThan is my deed to my most painted word:O heavy burthen!” |
| Quotes about lies and deceit | Act 3, Scene 1, Line 9″HAMLET[…] Where’s your father?OPHELIAAt home, my lord.HAMLETLet the doors be shut upon him, that he may play thefool no where but in’s own house. Farewell.” |
| Quotes about lies and deceit | Act 5, Scene 2, Line 12″LAERTESI am justly kill’d with mine own treachery.” |
| Quotes about revenge | Act 1, Scene 5, Line 7″GHOSTRevenge his foul and most unnatural murder.” |
| Quotes about revenge | Act 1, Scene 5, Line 7″HAMLETHaste me to know’t, that I, with wings as swiftAs meditation or the thoughts of love,May sweep to my revenge.” |
| Quotes about revenge | Act 2, Scene 2, Line 58″The spirit that I have seenMay be the devil: and the devil hath powerTo assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhapsOut of my weakness and my melancholy,As he is very potent with such spirits,Abuses me to damn me: I’ll have groundsMore relative than this: the play ‘s the thingWherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.” |
| Quotes about revenge | Act 3, Scene 3, Line 1″HAMLETNow might I do it pat, now he is praying;And now I’ll do’t. And so he goes to heaven;And so am I revenged. That would be scann’d:A villain kills my father; and for that,I, his sole son, do this same villain sendTo heaven.” |
| Quotes about revenge | Act 4, Scene 5, Line 6″LAERTESHow came he dead? I’ll not be juggled with:To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation. To this point I stand,That both the worlds I give to negligence,Let come what comes; only I’ll be revengedMost thoroughly for my father.” |
| Quotes about revenge | Act 4, Scene 7, Line 13″CLAUDIUSHamlet comes back: what would you undertake,To show yourself your father’s son in deedMore than in words?LAERTESTo cut his throat i’ the church.KING CLAUDIUSNo place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize;Revenge should have no bounds.” |
| Quotes about revenge | Act 5, Scene 2, Line 9″HAMLETDoes it not, think’st thee, stand me now upon—He that hath kill’d my king and whored my mother, Popp’d in between the election and my hopes, Thrown out his angle for my proper life, And with such cozenage—is’t not perfect conscience, To quit him with this arm? and is’t not to be damn’d, To let this canker of our nature comeIn further evil?” |
| Quotes about revenge | Act 5, Scene 2, Line 48″HAMLETO, I die, Horatio;The potent poison quite o’er-crows my spirit:I cannot live to hear the news from England;But I do prophesy the election lightsOn Fortinbras: he has my dying voice;So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less,Which have solicited. The rest is silence.” |
| Quotes dealing with Hamlet’s madness | Act 1, Scene 2, Line 5″O, that this too too solid flesh would meltThaw and resolve itself into a dew!Or that the Everlasting had not fix’dHis canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,Seem to me all the uses of this world!” |
| Quotes dealing with Hamlet’s madness | Act 1, Scene 5, Line 58″HAMLETHow strange or odd soe’er I bear myself,As I perchance hereafter shall think meetTo put an antic disposition on.” |
| Quotes dealing with Hamlet’s madness | Act 2, Scene 2, Line 58″The spirit that I have seenMay be the devil: and the devil hath powerTo assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhapsOut of my weakness and my melancholy,As he is very potent with such spirits,Abuses me to damn me:” |
| Quotes dealing with Hamlet’s madness | Act 2, Scene 2, Line 8″POLONIUSHe knew me not at first; he said Iwas a fishmonger: he is far gone, far gone: andtruly in my youth I suffered much extremity forlove; very near this.” |
| Quotes dealing with Hamlet’s madness | Act 2, Scene 2, Line 28″HAMLET I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind issoutherly I know a hawk from a handsaw.” |
| Quotes dealing with Hamlet’s madness | Act 4, Scene 5, Line 5″poor OpheliaDivided from herself and her fair judgment,Without the which we are pictures, or mere beasts:” |
| Quotes dealing with Hamlet’s madness | Act 4, Scene 5, Line 6″Follow her close; give her good watch,I pray you.” |
Hamlet
July 10, 2019