English a level - act 4 hamlet

scene summaries and quotes

2 quotes to show Gertrude’s distress in a4s1

“these profound heaves”

“my soul is full of discord and dismay”

quote from Gertrude describing Hamlet’s madness in a4s1

“mad as the sea and wind when both contend which is the mightier”

quote showing Hamlet mocking Claudius in a4s3

“My mother - father and mother is man and wife, man and wife is one flesh; and so, my mother”

quote showing Claudius condemning Hamlet to death in a4s3

“Do it, England”

2 quotes from Hamlet’s a4s4 soliloquy

“a mother stained”

“my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth”

2 quotes from Laertes describing Ophelia in a4s5

“O rose of May, dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia”

“thought and affliction, passion, hell itself she turns to favour”

quote from the gentleman describing Ophelias’ sadness in a4s5

“her mood will needs be pitied”

quote from a4s5 showing Gertrude’s guilt

“so full of artless jealousy is guilt, it spills itself in fearing to be split”

2 quotes from Claudius describing Ophelia in a4s5

“the poison of deep grief”

“Poor Ophelia divided herself and her fair judgement, without which we are pictures, or mere beasts”

quote from a messenger in a4s5 showing Laertes to be rash

he is “in a riotous head”

2 quotes from Laertes showing him to be grieving and vengeful in a4s7

“I a noble father lost, a sister driven into desperate terms”

“But my revenge will come.”

how does Laertes describe himself, in an allusion back to “murder will speak with miraculous organ”, in a4s7

“I might be the organ”

quote from a4s7 showing Claudius manipulating Laertes as well as playing on the idea of performativity

“are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?”

quote from Claudius on revenge in a4s7

“revenge should have no bounds”

quote from Laertes in a4s7 responding to the news that Ophelia’s drowned

“too much of water has thou poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears”