Final English Test set 2/3
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Hamlet Quotations
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 "A little more than kin, and less than kind." | Act: I Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: himself (aside) Significance: He's playing on the word kindred talking about his uncle... he is kin but not necessarily kind/good |
| "Frailty, thy name is woman!" | Act: I Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: himself (aside) Significance: he's saying all women kind is weak, his mother's true nature is coarse and lustful. Hamlet is shocked to see that his mother's love for his father was so shallow |
| Neither a borrower nor a lender be. | Act: I Speaker: Polonius Spoken to: Leartes Significance:he's giving him advice on correct manners. He's telling him to stay independent by not borrowing or lending money |
| This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not be false to any man. | Act: I Speaker: Polonius Spoken to: Leartes Significance: Polonius' advice sounds good but is full of errors because one can not be one's own authority |
| "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." | Act: I Speaker: Marcellus Spoken to: Horatio Significance: The appearance of King Hamlet's Ghost is an omen forthe decay of Denmark's government |
| O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain... That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain! | Act: I Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Himself Significance: comment on the evil nature of Claudius |
| There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. | Act: I Speaker Hamlet Spoken to: Horatio Significance: Horatio's understanding of metaphysics is not great enough to contain all that exists (spiritual and material) |
| The time is out of joint-- O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right! | Act: I Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Horatio and Marcellus Significance: Hamlet laments (mourns) that it is his destiny to redress the wrongs perpetrated against his father and the Country of Denmark |
| ...brevity is the soul of wit. | Act: II Speaker: Polonius Spoken to: King and Queen of Denmark Significance:verbal irony |
| Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. | Act: II Speaker: Polonius (aside) Spoken to: Himself Significance: detects an underlying meaning beneath hamlet's crazy sounding words |
| ...there is nothinng either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. | Act: II Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Rozencrantz Significance: our thoughts, our attitudes determine our perception of reality |
| What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god! | Act: II Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Significance: Hamlet is reapeating the renisance view that he learned in Wittenberg |
| I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk form a handsaw. | Act: II Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Significance: he is letting them know he is not actually crazy, but only acts like it when he feels |
| O, what a rougue and peasant slave am I! | Act: II Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Himself Significance: he thinks he is not living up to his calling of getting revenge on his uncle |
| The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King. | Act: II Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Himself Significance: He is going to trap Claudius with the lines in the play |
| To be, or not to be, that is the question. | Act: III Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Himself Significance: should he continue living or end it? |
| To sleep, perchance to dream-- ay, there's the rub | Act: III Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: himself Significance: after death do we dream? in this certainly lies the obstacle, no one knows what is beyond this life. |
| Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. | Act: III Speaker: Ophelia Spoken to: Hamlet Significance: his behavior towards her no longer expresses the love he expressed when he gave her the gifts |
| Get thee to a nunn'ry | Act: III Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Ophelia Significance: 'go be a nun! we will not marry.' His acknowledgement that she should go be a virgin |
| O, What a noble mind is here o'erthrown! | Act: III Speaker: Ophelia Spoken to: Herself Significance: she is convinced that hamlet gone mad and no longer resembles the man she loves |
| Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. | Act: III Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: the Players Significance: telling the players how to do the play. It's ironic since Hamlet himself is not able to do the same |
| I will speak dagger to her, but use none. | Act: III Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Himself Significance: 'I will prick her conscience w/ my words but about my father. Kill her with words but not actually kill her.' |
| O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven. | Act: III Speaker: King Claudius Spoken to: himself Significance: his sin of killing his brother is seen in heaven |
| Now might I do it pat, now 'a is a-praying. | Act: III Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Himself Significance: he had opportunity to kill King Claudius while he was vulnerable and praying |
| My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go. | Act: III Speaker: King Claudius Spoken to: Himself Significance: he can't truly repent cuz he doesn't feel it |
| This is very coinage of your brain, this bodiless creation ecstasy is very cunning in. | Act: III Speaker: Queen Gertrude Spoken to: Hamlet Significance: she is saying Hamlet is hillucinating because she can't see the ghost he is talking too |
| ...a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar. | Act: IV Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: King Claudius Significance: even a king's body will be eaten by worms... we all die |
| We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name. | Act: IV Speaker: Captain of Fortinbras' Army Spoken to: Hamlet Significance: they are fighting for principle not material gain |
| There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that's for thoughts. | Act: IV Speaker: Ophelia Spoken to: Leartes Significance: she is mad, but she speaks about flowers that help you remember and have clear thinking |
| Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horation, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. | Act: V Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Horatio Significance: He is holding Yorick's skull, someone he knew well in his childhood |
| There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. | Act: V Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Horatio Significance: divine providence guides us |
| There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be now, yet it will come-- the readiness is all. | Act: V Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Horatio Significance: everyone's time on earth is predetermined, if it is now or later, what comes will come, it is up to you to be ready |
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