English a level - act 1 hamlet

quotes and remembering moments

5 quotes describing the ghost in a1s1

“thing” “fantasy” “dreaded sight” “apparition” “portentous figure”

2 quotes from Horatio about the meaning of the ghost as a symbol in a1s1

“this bodes some strange eruption to our state”

“a mote it is to trouble in the minds eye”

3 quotes about grief in a1s2

“I have within which passes show - these but the trappings and the suits of woe”

“unmanly grief”

“the funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables”

2 quotes criticizing Gertrude in a1s2

“frailty, thy name is woman” “incestuous sheets”

2 quotes from a1s2 about the ghost

“my father’s spirit - in arms - all is not well”

“Foul deeds will rise”

2 quotes from Laertes about fear in a1s3

“fear it Ophelia, fear it my dear sister” “best safety lies in fear”

3 quotes that show Ophelia to be strong-minded in a1s3

“do not as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven”

“He hath my lord of late made many tenders of his affection”

“He hath importuned me with love in honourable fashion”

2 quotes from Polonius’ advice to Laertes in a1s3

“give every man thy ear, but few thy voice”

“to thine own self be true”

1 quote from a1s3 showing Ophelia’s submission to Polonius

“I shall obey, my lord”

3 quotes about Claudius’ failure as king from a1s4

“they clepe us drunkards” “vicious mole of nature” “something is rotten in the state of Denmark”

2 quotes from the first time Hamlet sees the ghost in a1s4

“angels and ministers of grace defend us”

“Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane”

2 reasons given by Hamlet to follow the ghost in act 1 scene 4

“I do not set my life at a pin’s fee”

“my fate cries out”

2 quotes to suggest the ghost is from hell in a1s5

“prison-house”

“eternal blazon”

1 quote from a1s5 to suggest the ghost is from purgatory

“sulphurous and tormenting flames”

2 quotes from the ghost to insult Claudius and Gertrude in a1s5

“shameful lust”

“seeming-virtuous queen”

2 quotes from the ghost instructing Hamlet what to do

“let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned incest” “leave her to heaven”

quote from Hamlet about corruption in Denmark from a1s5

“that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; at least I’m sure it may be so in Denmark”

3 quotes from Hamlet’s A1S2 soliloquy

“O that this too solid flesh would melt”

“that the everlasting had not fixed his canon ‘gainst self-slaughter. O God, God”

“but break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue”

which scenes do Hamlet’s (7) soliloquies take place in across the play?

A1S2

A1S5

A2S2

A3S1

A3S2

A3S3

A4S4