Hamlet – Key Quotes: ACT 4 – Flashcards
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"I'll have prepared him a chalice for the nonce"
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Claudius is eager to kill Hamlet
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"Revenge should have no bounds"
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Claudius sees vengeance as a neccesary
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"I will work him to an exploit"
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Claudius is willing to kill his own nephew
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"The queen his mother lives almost by his looks"
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Claudius deems Gertrude to be the main follower of Hamlet
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"And where the offence is, let the great axe fall"
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Claudius advises Laertes to kill Hamlet
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"When sorrows come, they come not in single spies, but in battalions"
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Claudius talks about how trouble comes in multiples
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"O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth"
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Hamlet has changed and is willing to react and kill his father
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"One part wisdom and ever three parts coward"
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Hamlet admits his flaws
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"For like the hectic in my blood he rages, and thou must cure me"
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Claudius describes Hamlet like a disease
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"How dangerous is it that this man gets loose"
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Claudius feels threatened by Hamlet
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"His liberty is full of threats to all"
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Claudius is scared of Hamlet
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"I must be cruel only to be kind. This bad begins, and worse remains behind"
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Hamlet tells us that there is worse to come than just the killing of Polonius
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"Marriage vows as false as dicer's oaths"
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Hamlet accuses Gertrudes marriage with Claudius as being fake
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"Almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king, and marry with his brother"
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Hamlet informs his mother that Claudius is responsible for the killing of Old Hamlet
