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Quote Bank for Hamlet. Clear table lay out. Quote, In text reference and some notes/link to themes/ideas/etc. Written by student who went on to study English at University.
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'had the Everlasting..not set - Act 1 Scene 2, Hamlet
his canon against self
slaughter' - suicide
- mental anguish/state
- Religion/ God
'The funeral did bake meats - Act 1 Scene 2, Hamlet about Gertude and
which coldly furnished forth Claudius’ marriage
the marriage tables'
- Resentment toward Gertrude, intertwined with
grief
- Swift nature of Claudius and Gertrude’s
marriage
"Our sometime sister, now - Act 1 Scene 2, Claudius to royal court about
our Queen" Gertrude
"A little more than kin, and - Act 1 Scene 2, Hamlet in an aside
less than kind."
- first lines he says - arguably sums up his
entire attitude toward Claudius
"Cast thy nighted colour off - Act 1 Scene 2, Gertrude to Hamlet
and let thine eye look like a
friend on Denmark" - Dismissive of his grief, can be seen to
highlight Gertude’s cold-hearted nature
- Link to ideas of her being overly concerned
with her power rather than emotion
"I have that within which - Act 1 Scene 2, Hamlet
passes show - these but the
trappings and the suits of - Depression, Hamlet’s failing mental state
woe" - Link between appearance and emotion,
important to consider when analysing and
comparing different productions of the play
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