Hamlet

Why is the setting important?

Begins outside which creates a tense and foreboding atmosphere along with vulnerability. It then moves back inside into Elsinore castle creating a growing sense of claustrophobia which mirrors how Hamlet feels.

Quotes describing the ghost’s appearance:

“Thing”

“Dreaded sight”

“This apparition”

Quotes about the state of Denmark:

“Bodes some strange eruption to our state”

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”….” Heaven will direct it”

“ his choice depends the sanctity and health of this whole state”

Hamlet’s quotes about Claudius:

“A little more than kin and less than kind”

Hamlet key quotes:

“ Ay madam it is common”

“Married with my uncle…within a month… incestuous sheets”

“His cannon gainst self slaughter O God”

“I don not st my life at a pin’s fee”

“ Denmarks a prison”

“I am but mad north west”

Ghost key quotes:

“I to sulphurous and tormenting flames”

“Are burnt and purged away. But I am forbid to tell the secrets of my prison house”

“Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder”

“Murder most foul… most foul, strange and unnatural”

“ by a brothers hand, of life, of crown, of queen… cut off even in the blossoms of my sin”

Revenge quotes:

“Let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned invest”

“Thou pursues this act taint not thy mind”

Claudius key quotes:

“Let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned invest”

“Thou pursues this act taint not thy mind”

“The harlots cheek… is not more ugly to the thing that helps it than is my feed to my most painted word”

Polonius key quotes:

“ through his madness yet there is method in’t”

“ proved that devotions visage and pious action we do sugar over the devil himself”