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hamlet quotes
significant quotes of hamlet; acts 1-5
| quote | significance |
|---|---|
| "A little more then kin and less than kind." (act 1) | speaker: Hamlet significance: displays Hamlet's dislike for his uncle marrying his mother; "too many ties there for me", one of Hamlet's first lines |
| "Something is rotten is the state of Denmark" (act 1) | speaker: Marcellus, a guard significance: foreshadows political unrest in Denmark; caused by ghost of King Hamlet |
| "I doubt it is no other but the main; his father's death , and our o'erhasty marriage." (act 2) | speaker: Gertrude significance: proves Gertrude's possible doubt in her own actions |
| "I have of late- but wherefore I know not... Man delights me not" (act 2) | speaker: Hamlet significance: shows Hamlet is in a depressive state, he appreciates humans but no longer wishes to be around him |
| "The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king." (act 2) | speaker: Hamlet significance: sets a plan in place, Hamlet is acting on his word (carefully) |
| "Get thee to a nunnery" (act 3) | speaker: Hamlet significance: saying Ophelia is unholy and she must go to a brothel or church; insinuates they had sex |
| "Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go." (act 3) | speaker: Claudius significance: foreshadowing more spying; irony (he killed his brother) |
| "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." (act 3) | speaker: Gertrude significance: reflects her thoughts on her marriage; Gertrude believes remarrying was the right thing |
| "I will speak daggers at her, but use none." (act 3) | speaker: Hamlet significance: while upset with his mom, he is still loyal to her and will only verbally hurt her |
| "Words without thoughts never to heaven go" (act 3) | speaker: Claudius significance: words without action do not get you forgiven in heaven; irony |
| "How is't with you, that you do bend your eye on vacancy and with the incorporal air do hold discourse?" (act 3) | speaker: Gertrude significance: only Hamlet seeing the ghost makes him seem crazier; Gertrude not being able to see it could mean an affair or her quick remarry could hurt King Hamlet |
| "O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth." (act 4) | speaker: Hamlet significance: moving Hamlet to be a man action and get revenge; foreshadows a negative outcome |
| "To-morrow is Saint Valentine's Day, all in the morning betime, and I a maid at your window, to be your Valentine. Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes, and dupp'd the chamber-door; let in the maid, that out the maid, lever departed more" (4) | speaker: Ophelia significance: displays the loss of her father; hints that her and Hamlet slept together |
| "Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rims at it." (act 4) | speaker: Hamlet significance: Hamlet realizes everyone will die one day |
| "I am justly killed with mine own treachery." (act 5) | speaker: Laertes significance: was killed by himself; admits to go to heaven |
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