1. Hamlet Review
Acts II-V Quotes

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1. “There on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds Clamb’ring to hang, an envious sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And mermaid-like awhile they bore her up, Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds, As one incapable of her own distress
Or like a creature native and endued Unto that element. But long it could not be Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death.”
Queen Gertrude
Describing O’s death and telling others

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2. “But, O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn? “Forgive me my foul murder”? That cannot be, since I am still possessed Of those effects for which I did the murder: My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen.”
King Claudius
KC’s soliloquy; tormented; must give up his ill gotten gains to be forgiven…nahhhh

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3. “And for that purpose I’ll anoint my sword. I bought an unction of a mountebank So mortal that, but dip a knife in it, Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare, Collected from all simples that have virtue Under the moon, can save the thing from death That is but scratched withal.”
Laertes
Discussing revenge plot w KC-poisoned sword

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4. “If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,
Absent thee from felicity while
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain
To tell my story.”
Hamlet
Dying words to Horatio; wants H to tell his story

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5. “I prithee take thy fingers from my throat, For though I am not splenitive and rash, Yet have I in me something dangerous, Which let thy wisdom fear.”
Hamlet
Speaking to O’s grave

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6. “How 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 revenged Most throughly for my father.”
Laertes
Vows revenge for P’s death while confronting KC

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7. “The play’s the thing Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.”
Hamlet
Desperate to catch KC’s guilty reaction to determine if he murdered his father

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8. “O, from this time forth My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!”
Hamlet
End of final soliloquy; commits himself to revenge after comparing himself to Fortinbras

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9. “I will speak daggers to her, but use none. My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites:”
Hamlet
Speaking about confronting QG; no violence

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10. “And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe, But even his mother shall uncharge the practice And call it accident.”
King Claudius
Plot to kill H- KC will make it look like an accident

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11. “He has my dying voice.
So tell him, with th’ occurrents, more or less,
Which have solicited—the rest is silence”
Hamlet
H speaking of Fort. Wants him to rule Denmark

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12. “O, ’tis too true! How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience.”
King Claudius
Aside; has conscience & fells guilt; P’s words re (-) behavior reach him

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13. “O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown! The courtier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s, eye, tongue, sword, Th’ expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mold of form,
Th’ observed of all observers, quite, quite down!”
Ophelia
Soliloquy; cannot believe “perfect” guy H has descended into madness

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14. “O, treble woe Fall ten times treble on that cursèd head Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense Deprived thee of!—“
Laertes
L H; believes H caused O to go mad

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15. “There’s something in his soul O’er which his melancholy sits on brood, And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose Will be some danger; which for to prevent, I have in quick determination Thus set it down: he shall with speed to England For the demand of our neglected tribute.”
King Claudius
Doesn’t’ believe H’s madness is result of love; wants him gone-off to England-collect war debt

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16. “O… speak no more! Thou turn’st my eyes into my very soul, And there I see such black and grainèd spots As will not leave their tinct.”
Queen Gertrude
Confrontation w/H; recognizes her wrong doing

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17. “I am justly killed with mine own treachery…The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, Unbated and envenomed. The foul practice Hath turned itself on me.”
Laertes
L killed w his own poisoned sword meant for H

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18. “No, no, the drink, the drink! O, my dear Hamlet! The drink, the drink! I am poisoned.”
Queen Gertrude
QG knows the drink is poisoned; death coming; knows it’s KC

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19. “Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveler returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,”
Hamlet
Soliloquy; death vs suffering through life?
Fear of unknown keeps us going

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“Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed, Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse, And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses Or paddling in your neck with his damned fingers, Make you to ravel all this matter out That I essentially am not in madness, But mad in craft.”
Queen Gertrude
H wants his mother to not allow KC to convince her he is “faking” his madness; she can be good again

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21. “O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon ’t, A brother’s murder. Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will. My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin And both neglect. What if this cursèd hand Were thicker than itself with brother’s blood? Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? “
King Claudius
Soliloquy; wants to pray but can’t; guilt

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22. “And so he goes to heaven,
And so am I revenged. That would be scanned:
A villain kills my father, and for that,
I, his sole son, do this same villain send
To heaven.
Why, this is hire and salary, not revenge.
He took my father grossly, full of bread,
With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;
And how his audit stands who knows save heaven.”
King Claudius
H says this when he’s about to kill KC; won’t bc then he will go right to heaven-that’s not revenge

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23. “For he was likely, had he been put on, To have proved most royal; and for his passage, The soldier’s music and the rite of war Speak loudly for him.”
Hamlet
F believes that H would have made a great king

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24. “Her obsequies have been as far enlarged
As we have warranty. Her death was doubtful,
And, but that great command o’ersways the order,
She should in ground unsanctified been lodged
Till the last trumpet. For charitable prayers
Shards, flints, and pebbles should be thrown on
her.Yet here she is allowed her virgin crants,
Her maiden strewments, and the bringing home
Of bell and burial.”
Ophelia
Discussing O’s death; doubt surrounding manner of death