Hamlet's Quotes and questions about revenge tragedies
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- "O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven...It hath the primal eldest curse upon't / A brother's murder"
- Claudius : soliloquy Speaking of his act murder and Referencing cain and able
- "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"
- Marcellus says to Horatio : Something is wrong within the Royal family
- "Though this be madness, it there is method in't-will you walk out if the air,my lord"
- The first part is Polonious in an aside: The second part he speaks to prince Hamlet: Polonius is thinking Hamlet is crazy or maybe he is faking it.
- "....And now I'll do't. And so a goes to heaven;/ And so I am revenged. That would be scann'd:/ A villian kills my father, and for that, / I. his sole son, do this same villian send/ to heaven"
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Hamlet: Soliloquy
He wants to wit until claudius is sinning before he kills him - And let me speak to th' yet knowing world/ How these things came about: so shall you hear/ of carnal bloody and unnatural acts, of accidental judments,casual slaughters, / of deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause/...."
- Horatio to Fortinbras : This is a recap at the end of the play
- What is Cartharsis?
- The release of pity and fear by the audience at the end of the tragedy.
- "...O most wicked speed, to post/ With such dexterity to incestous sheets! / It is not nor cannot come to good:/ But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue"
- Hamlet soliloquy : His dislike of his mothers marriage to his uncle
- "...frailty, thy name is woman"
- Hamlet soliloquy : Gertrude is weak
- "To be or not to be; that is the question;/ Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer/ The clings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to arms against a sea of troubles,/ And by opposing them?"
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Hamlet soliloquy :
Suicide contemplation to live or not to live - "The time is out of joint o cursed spite/ that everI was born to set it right"
- Hamlet soliloquy: cursing the day that he was born into the royal family
- "One woe doth tread upon another's heel..."
- Gertrude to Laeretes: One bad thing comeing with another bad thing. She is trying to soften the blow of Ophelia's death
- "...There's a divinity that shapes our ends,/Rough-hew them how we will"
- Hamlet to Horatio: God already knows our destiny and we can't change it
- "Why man, they did make love to this employment/ They are not near my conscious. Their defeat/ does by their own insinuation grow
- Hamlet to Horatio : He doesn't feel guilty for what he done to rosencratz and
- "...Whose end both ar the first and now, was and is to hold as't were, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature scorn her own image..."
- Hamlet talking to actors: To show of reality
- "What is the reason that you use mer thus?/ I lov'd you ever: but it is no matter; Let Hercules himself do what he may, / The cat will mew adn the dog will have his day
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Hamlet to Laeretes
Not going to be on test - "A little more than kin and less than kind!
- "Hamlet aside : He is referring to his uncle now being his stepfather more kin but not really to him
- ""...I knew him... a fellow of infinete jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath born me/ on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is? My gorge rises at it/...
- Hamlet to Horatio Says this about yorick his chilhood friend who was King Hamlet's jester. He realizes that we all return to dust
- I'll have grounds / more relative than this: the play's the thing Wherein i'll catch the conscious of the king
- "Hamlet soliloquy Hamlet is wanting proof of Cladius guilt.
- There with fantastic garlands did she make/...When down her weedy trophies and herself/ Fell into the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;/ And mermaid like awhile they bore her up;...
- "Gertrude to Laeretes telling him that Ophelia had drowned
- "Let not the royal bed of Denmark be / A"couch for luxury and damned incest""
- Ghost to Hamlet: Stop Gertrude and Cladius from sleeping together
- "Why, as a woodcock to my own springe....I am justly kill'd with my own treachery"
- Laertes to Hamlet : He got caught in his own trap and desrves what he gets
- "If thou dist ever hold me in thy heart, / Absent from felicity awhile, / And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, / to tell my story"
- Hamlet to Horatio : He wants Horatio to tell the truth and keep his name clean
- "...was your father dear to you? / Or are you painting of a sorrow, / A face without a heart?
- Claudius to Laertes : Did you love your father or is it fake. Claudius is manipulating Laertes to kill Hamlet
- "...O From this time forth, My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!"
- Hamlet Soliloquy from now own he is not going to Procastrinate He is going to take care of business he has been inspired by fortinbras army
- "Not so, my lord, I am too much I' the sun"
- Hamlet to King Claudius : This is a Pun. He is in the presence of Claudius too much
- Characteristics of a hero?
- Nobility, tragic flaw, suffers, Happiness, agony, vengeance is his goal
- Define realism
- A literary technique that attempts to create the appearance of life as it is usually experienced
- Playwright
- A writer who makes plays
- Well Made play
- conventions including plenty of suspense created by a meticolous plotting
- Problem Play
- a type of drama that presents a social issue in order to awaken the audiences to it. Henry Ibsen
- Naturalism
- Began in late 19th and early 20th century. It derives its name from the idea that human beings are part of nature and subject to its laws
- Difference in traditional plays and modern plays
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Traditional---Modern
Languages
Palace--setting--Living room
Royalty-Characters-Me & You
Extraordinary-problems-Realistic
politics------issues - Melodrama
- Any literary work that relies on implausible events and sensational action for its effects. Often a virtous individual must somehow confront and overcome a wicked opressor
- Litereary tragedy
- presents couragous individuals who confront powerful forces
- What is Hamlets tragic Flaw?
- He thinks too much.
- What is Calvinism?
- The belief that we are predestined to heavan or hell.
- What is Momento mori?
- It is latin for Remember you are mortal
- What is authors technique called Allusion?
- When an author eludes
- What was the name of the play within the play and it's significance?
- The mousetrap He was going to catch the kings conscious.
- What is a dumbshow?
- Its the begining of a play that shows what the play is going to be about. No words are spoken like miming the play.
- What does a revenge tragedy entail? (7 things)
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1.Ghost 2.able scheming villain 3.Poison 4.Madness 5. Conspiracies 6.Suicide
7.Casual slaughter - What is a soliloquy?
- When an actor reveals his thought (aloud) alone on stage. Only the audience can hear him.
- What is an aside?
- It is when an actor speaks on stage so that the other actors on stage cannot hear him but the audience can.
- Where did tragedies derive from?
- Romans and Greeks
- What is the Prologue?
- The opening speech or dialogue of any play, especially a greek play that usually gives the exposition necessary to follow subsequent action.
- What is Parados?
- Song sung by the chorus as it first enters
- What is Episodia?
- A scene of dialogue where one or more actors take part int it.
- What is Exodus?
- A progressional song sung by the chorus at the end of the play offering wisdom related to the actions and outcome of the play.
- What is a stasimon?
- A choral ode that often reflect on the dialogue and events of the preceding episode
- What is the setting of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark?
- Hamlet was set in Denmark in early 1600's. Elsinore was the town in which the castle was in Castle is Elsinore