Who said it?
"Frailty, thy name is woman!"
Who is Hamlet?
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't."
What is madness?
CLAUDIUS: Laertes, was your father dear to you?
Or are you like the painting of a sorrow,
A face without a heart?
What is Simile?
MARCELLUS: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
What is Act 1, Scene 4?
Oh my offense is rank, it smells to heaven.
What are beliefs about Great Chain of Being/Christianity/10 Commandments?
I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery.
Who is Laertes?
By indirections find directions out.
Spying, deception, surveillance, trust
OPHELIA: There’s fennel for you, and columbines.
There’s rue for you, and here’s some for me
What is symbolism?
"I have some rights of memory in this kingdom / Which now, to claim my vantage doth invite me."
"You speak like a green girl, unsifted in such perilous circumstance."
What are beliefs about women?
Thou turn’st mine eyes into my very soul,
And there I see such black and grainèd spots
As will not leave their tinct.
Who is Gertrude?
"for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them."
What is gender?
KING Gertrude, do not drink.
QUEEN I will, my lord; I pray you pardon me.
What is dramatic irony?
OPHELIA: My lord, as I was sewing in my closet,
Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced,
What is Act 2, Scene 1
What a piece of work is man! How noble in reasons! How infinite in faculties!...in apprehension, how like a god!’
What is Humanism?
This above all: to thine own self be true,
Who is Polonius?
Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he find it stopping a bunghole?
HAMLET: "A little more than kin, and less than kind."
What is a pun?
What if this cursèd hand
Were thicker than itself with brother’s blood?
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
To wash it white as snow?
There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will—
What is Fate versus Free Will?
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to Heaven
Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
Who is Ophelia?
Yet I,... can say nothing - no, not for a king, Upon whose property and most dear life A damned defeat was made. Am I a coward?
What is action versus inaction?
HAMLET: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow."
What is biblical allusion?
You are the Queen, your husband’s brother’s wife,
And (would it were not so) you are my mother.
What is Act 3, Scene 4
A villain kills my father; and for that,
I, his sole son, do this same villain send
To heaven.
What is beliefs about sin, confession and heaven?