hamlet key scenes

hamlet act 1,2

wicked speed

the funeral baked meats did coldly furnish the marriage table

a beast of discourse

hamlet scene 1,3

pooh you speak like a green girl,

tender yourself more dearly

think yourself a baby

chaste treasure

i shall obey my lord

hamlet act 2,2

more matter less art

hamlet act 3,1

god has give you one face yet you make yourself another

get thee to a nunnery

breeder of sinner

rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind

tis nobler in mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune take arms against seas of trouble

to be or not to be

hamlet act 3,3

my words fly up my thoughts remain below

the primal eldest curse upon’t

oh my offence is rank it smells to heaven

white as now (purity)

blank verse wants intimacy with god

act 3,4

a rat

i am slain

Thou find'st to be busy is some danger.

act 4,5

.I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died..."

there's rue for you... O you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy..." - corrupt for claudius and destroy on innocence

O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul, that, struggling to be free, Art more engaged!

O, this is the poison of deep grief; it springs All from her father's deat

ACT 5,1

i loved ophelia once

"politician... courtier... lawyer"

These were all believed to be untrustworthy. The poor are 'above' them all now.

Suggests eventual triumph of morality over corruption?

"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back one thousand times. And now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!"

yorick had been the king's jester and had entertained Hamlet when Hamlet was a boy.

your water is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body.

act 5, 2

I had my father's signet in my purse - bloom