English a level - act 5 hamlet

quotes

how does the start of act 5 scene 1 provide a dramatic contrast to act 4

the clowns/gravediggers create humour through equivocation and punning

quote from Hamlet A5S1 as the gravedigger throws up a skull

“that skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once”

how does the start of act 5 scene 1 provide a dramatic contrast to act 4

the clowns/gravediggers create humour through equivocation and punning

quote from Hamlet A5S1 as the gravedigger throws up a skull

“that skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once”

quote from Hamlet questioning the gravedigger’s lack of emotions in a5s1

“has this fellow no feeling of his business, that ‘a sings at grave-making?”

quote from Hamlet in A5S1 as the gravedigger throws up the second skull, questioning the meaning of life

“is this the fine of his fines, and the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt?”

quote from Hamlet in A5S1 addressing the grave diggers as he points out their equivocation

“we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us”

comic reference to Englishmen made by the gravedigger in A5S1

“there the men are as mad as he”

quote from Hamlet as he picks up Yorick’s skull in A5S1

“Alas poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest”

3 quotes from Hamlet foreshadowing tragedy in A5S1 right before the funeral procession

“Alexander returneth to dust”

“Imperious Caeser, dead and turned to clay”

“here comes the King”

quote from Laertes in A5S1 showing his grief

“Hold off the earth awhile, till I have caught her once more in mine arms; [leaps into the grave] now pile your dust upon the quick and dead”

quote from Hamlet on grief for Ophelia in A5S1

“I loved Ophelia, forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum”

quote by Hamlet in A5S2 addressing Horatio acknowledging Claudius’ foiled ‘England’ plot

“no not to stay the grinding of the axe, my head should be struck off”

2 quotes from Hamlet in A5S2 addressing Horatio showing him to be the only person Hamlet has left

“they [R&G] did make love to this employment. they are not near my conscience”

“he that hath killed my king, and whored my mother”

quote from Hamlet addressing Osric in A5S2 flattering Laertes, suggesting him to be superior to Hamlet

“his semblable is his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more” - meaning the only one like Laertes is his mirror image, no one else lives up

quote from Hamlet in A5S2 suggesting Hamlet to be Laertes’ mirror image

“to know a man well, were to know himself”

2 quotes from Hamlet addressed to Horatio in A5S2 foreshadowing tragedy immediately before the fight

“thou wouldst not think how ill all’s here about my heart”

“if it be now, ‘tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come”

how does Hamlet explain his madness to Laertes in A5S2 before the fight (2 quotes)?

“I am punished with sore distraction”

“who does it then? his madness?

quote from Hamlet equivocating ‘foil’ to Laertes in A5S2

“I’ll be your foil Laertes'“

dialogue (3 lines) between Claudius and Gertrude as she drinks the poison in A5S2

“Gertrude do not drink.

I will my lord, I pray you pardon me.

[aside] it is the poisoned cup; it is too late”

quote from Laertes showing his guilt before he cuts Hamlet in A5S2

“[aside] and yet ‘tis almost against my conscience”

quote from Laertes on justice after he is cut in A5S2

“I am justly killed with mine own treachery”

Gertrude’s final quote, highlighting her loyalty to Hamlet in A5S2

“o my dear Hamlet - the drink, the drink! I am poisoned.”

quote from Laertes right after Gertrude dies showing Hamlet is a dead man in A5S2

“Hamlet, thou art slain… the King’s to blame”

2 quotes from Hamlet as he stabs Claudius in A5S2

“the point envenomed too! then, venom, to thy work.”

“thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, drink off this potion. is thy union here? follow my mother.”

4 quotes from dying Hamlet addressed to Horatio in A5S2

“Heaven make thee [Laertes] free of it. I follow thee. I am dead, Horatio. Wretched queen, adieu.”

“this harsh world”

“I do prophecy the election lights on Fortinbras, he has my dying voice”

“the rest is silence.”

quote from Horatio as Hamlet dies in A5S2

“Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince”

quote from Horatio essentially summarising the play to Fortinbras at the end of A5S2

“so shall you hear if carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, of accidental judgements, casual slaughters, of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause”

quote from Fortinbras on Hamlet’s kingship at the end of A5S2

“he was likely, to have been put on, to have proved most royal”