Question | Answer |
Ghost -Iambic -Betrayal -Violence Hamlet: 'Murder!' | 'murder most foul' |
Ghost -Murder -Biblical 'sleeping in my orchard'... | 'A serpent stung me' |
Ghost -gender roles -Reflects Hamlet's view - 'So to seduce!- won to his... | 'shameful lust' |
Ghost -about Gertrude -biblical 'So lust, through to a'... | 'radiant angel' |
Ghost -fragmentation -madness -relentlessness 'with all my imperfections on my head'... | 'O horrible, O horrible, most horrible!' |
Ophelia - emphasises how submissive she is Polonius: 'Look to't, I charge you: come your ways.' | 'I shall obey, my lord' |
Ophelia - suggests she has no control -ironically trusting of Polonius Polonius:'Do you believe his tenders, as you call them?' | 'I do not know, my lord, what I should think' |
Ophelia -naivety -contrast to 'rotten in state of Denmark quote' -Laertes: 'Lay her i' the earth' | 'And from her fair and unpolluted flesh' |
Ophelia -descent into madness Ophelia: 'There's a daisy'... | 'I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died' |
Hamlet -About Ophelia -Gender blaming Ophelia: 'I was the more deceived' | 'Get thee to a nunnery' |
Hamlet -About Ophelia -Gender blaming Hamlet: 'why wouldst thou be a'... | 'breeder of sinners' |
Laertes -to Ophelia -her virginity>her person Laertes: 'Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal'... | 'then weigh what loss your honour may sustain' |
Laertes -to Ophelia -her virginity>her person -warning Laertes: 'To his unmaster'd importunity'... | 'Fear it, Ophelia' |
Ophelia -atypical -not virtuous or innocent -In her madness -Ophelia: 'To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, All in the morning betime'... | 'And I a maid at your window, To be your Valentine.' |
Hamlet -To Ophelia - Blaming her -makes Ophelia a victim -Gender blaming Hamlet: 'Ay, truly'... | 'for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd ' |
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