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1.2 Hamlet to Claudius, emphasising his mistreatment by the latter and their close relationship

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a little more than kin, and less than kind

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1.2 Hamlet describes that his grief extends beyond his clothing

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'tis not alone my inky cloak

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1.2 (soliloquy) Hamlet laments the fact Christian teaching prohibits suicide

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that the almighty had not fixed his canon against self-slaughter

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1.2 Hamlet on the fact the wedding of Gertrude and Claudius occurred very shortly after his father's death

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the funeral baked meats/ did cold furnish forth the marriage table

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1.2 (soliloquy) Hamlet on his mother's weakness in rapid remarriage

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frailty thy name is women

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1.2 (soliloquy) Hamlet compares his father to his uncle unfavourable

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Hyperion to a satyr

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1.4 Hamlet on the ability of all to be corrupted by evil thoughts

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the dram of eale/ doth all the noble substance of a doubt

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1.4 Pathetic Fallacy when Hamlet goes to find the ghost

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it is very cold

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1.5 Hamlet promises the ghost that he will act quickly

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with swift wings... may sweep my revenge

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1.5 Hamlet pledges to sacrifice his love of learning for revenge

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ill wipe away all trivial fond records

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1.5 Hamlet tells Marcellus he will pretend to be mad

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to put on an antic dispostition

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2.2 Hamlet's letter to Ophelia, quote about the sun

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doubt that the sun doth move

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2.2 Hamlet calls Polonius a pimp

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you are a fishmonger

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2.2 Hamlet on the restrictive nature of Denmark

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Denmark's a prison

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2.2 Hamlet on the transience of loyalty (from his father to Claudius)

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those that would make mouths at him... [pay] a hundred ducats apiece for a little picture of him

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2.2 Hamlet on the strange nature of his family relations (using familial titles)

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uncle-father and aunt-mother

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2.2 Hamlet on rarely being mad

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i am mad but north-north-west

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2.2 Hamlet draws parreles between the ancient world and Polonius with reference to the sacrifice of one's daughter

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O Jepthah... what a treasure thou hadst?

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3.1 Hamlet to Ophelia about the nunnery

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"Get thee to a nunnery"

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3.1 Hamlet tells Ophelia not to trust men

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we are arrant knaves- believe none of us

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2.2 (soliloquy) Hamlet tries to mentally insight passion

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a dream in passion

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2.2 (soliloquy) Hamlet criticises his own cowardise

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I am pigeon-liver'd

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2.2 (soliloquy) Hamlet's concluding statement about his plan

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the play's the thing/ Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King

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3.1 (soliloquy) Hamlet displays his complex emotions (opening line)

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to be or not to be

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3.1 (soliloquy)Hamlet on the peace that comes with death

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by a sleep to say we end / the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks/ that flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation/ devoutly to be wished

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3.1 (soliloquy) Hamlet's reasoning behind not committing suicide, reflective of his wider demeanor

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conscience does make a coward of us all

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3.2 Hamlet praises Horatio honesty

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Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man

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3.2 Hamlet on the corrupting nature of passion

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give me a man who is not passion's slave

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3.2 Hamlet questions the reliability of the ghost

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if... it is a damned ghost that we have seen

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3.2 Hamlet has lost a sense of time, Ophelia corrects him

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H: My father's dead within two hours! O: Nay 'tis twice two months

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3.2 Hamlet of women's fickle love

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O: 'Tis brief, my Lord H: As woman's love

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3.2 Hamlet on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern playing him

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you would play upon me! you would seem to know my stops

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3.2 Hamlet on how he will address Gertrude

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I will speak daggers but use none

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3.3 Hamlet on Claudius' sole

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damned and black as hell, whereto it goes

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1.2 Claudius criticises Hamlet's grief

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unmanly greif

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1.2 Claudius orders Hamlet to remain at court

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we beseech you, bend you to remain

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2.2 Claudius pledges his courts attention to Polonius' unrequited love plan

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we will try

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2.2 (an aside) Claudius on his conscience

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how smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience

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2.2 Claudius on the danger of Hamlet's madness

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madness in great ones must not unwatched go

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3.3 Polonius on Gertrude being able to reign Hamlet in

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i warrant she'll tax him home

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3.3 (soliloquy/prayer) Claudius compairs his crime to Cain

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the primal eldest curse

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3.3 (soliloquy/prayer) Claudius want absolution, yet his prayer is hollow as he will not return his ill-gotton power

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may one be [pardoned and retain th' offense?

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1.3 Polonius instructs Leartes on how to handle money

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neither a borrower nor a lender be

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1.3 Polonius remarks, mockingly, that Ophelia is naive

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You speak life a green girl

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2.2 Polonius announces that he has uncovered by Hamlet is mad

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i have found the very cause of Hamlet's lunacy

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2.2 Polonius gives intruction to Claudius, telling him to speak first to the ambassadors from Norway

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give first admittance to th'ambassadors

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2.2 Gertrude pleads Polonius to get the point

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more matter with less art

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2.2 Polonius shows he ascribes to the class system with a refernece to how he will treat the players

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i will use [the players] according to their desert

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2.2 Hamlet mocks Polonius' preference for simplistic pasttimes

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he's for a jig, or a bawdy tale

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1.1 Horatio consults the others about telling Hamlet of the ghost

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do you consent we shall acquaint him with it/ as needful is our loves, fitting with our duty

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1.5 Horatio expressed concern fow Hamlet's mental state after he has seen the ghost

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these are but wild and whirling words, my lord

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2.2 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern pray that they will lucky in their pursuit of Hamlet

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heaven makes our presence and our practice/ pleasant

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1.1 the Ghost is compared to a soldier

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with martial stalk

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1.5 the Ghost conveys it suffering with the use of hell imagery

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confined to fast in fires

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1.5 the Ghost orders Hamlet to punish his mother

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leave her to heaven

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1.3 Laertes warns Ophelia that Hamlet's affection might not be genuine

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Hamlet, and the trifling of his favour

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1.3 Gertrude asks Hamlet to no longer be mournful

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cast thy nightly colour off

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2.2 Gertrude on the rapidity of her second marriage

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o'hasty marriage

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2.2 Gertrude's thoughts about Polonius' unrequited love theory

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it maybe, very likely

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2.2 Gertrude on the temperament of the player queen

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the lady doth protest too much

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1.3 Laertes on Ophelia being a virgin

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your chaste treasure

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3.1 Ophelia laments the change in Hamlet's temprement

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t'have seen what i have seen, see what i see!

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4.4 The Soldier states Fortinbras' desire to march through Denmark

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Fortinbras craves the conveyance of a promised march over his kingdom

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2.2 Fortinbras has sworn allegiance to Old Norway

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makes vows before his uncle

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4.6 Hamlet's requests that Horatio comes to meet him in a letter

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Repel thou to me with as much speed as thou would fly at death

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4.5 Ophelia has coherent thoughts despite her madness; a reflection on nature

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We know what we are but not what we may be

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4.5 A sexual reference in Ophelia's singing

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Before you tumbled me You to promised to wed

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4.5 Ophelia's sanity is fragile and is destroyed by the death of her father

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A young maid's wits should be as mortal as a poor man's life

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4.5 Ophelia gives a flower to Claudius, a reflection of his personality

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There's a rue for you

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4.1 Gertrude's eulogy for Polonius

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Unseeing good old man

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3.4 Hamlet on Polonius being injured by the device that he intended to use to injure others

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Hoist with his own petard

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4.1 Claudius requests that Gertrude translates Hamlet's action

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You must translate; 'tis fit we understand them

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4.1 Claudius states his own self-interest when he expresses fear for his safety in response to Polonius' murder

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It had been so with us had we been there

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4.1 Claudius extends the metaphor of disease

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But like the owner of a foul disease to keep it from divulging, let it feed even on the pith of life

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4.1 Claudius expresses the need for carefully managed propaganda to cope with Hamlets madness

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The vile deed we must with all our majesty and skill both countenance and excuse

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4.2 Hamlet tells Rosencrantz and Guildenstern that Claudius is using them

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4.2 Hamlet tells Rosencrantz and Guildenstern that Claudius is using them

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4.2 Claudius on how Hamlet's exile must appear to be part of a well considered plan

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This sudden sending him away must seem deliberate pause

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4.5 Claudius' first address to a mad Ophelia

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How do you, pretty lady?

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4.5 Claudius expressed regret over the management of Polonius' funeral

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we have done but greenly In hugger-mugger to inter him

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4.5 Claudius on the poplar support Laertes receives

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The rabble call him lord

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4.5 Claudius on what a crime it is to kill a king

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There's such divinity that doth hedge a king

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4.5 Claudius on his right to share Laertes' grief

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Laertes, I must commune with your grief, or you deny me right

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4.7 Claudius vilifies Hamlet by stating his crimes

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he which hath your noble father slain pursued my life

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4.7 Claudius on how Hamlet's murder must be kept secret

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For his death no wind of blame shall breath

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4.7 Claudius asks Laertes whether his mourning for his father is genuine

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are you... a face without a heart

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4.7 Claudius' ironic statement in which he lies about attempting to restraint Laertes

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How much I had to do to calm his rage

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4.2 Hamlet on his Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's stupidity in trying failing to understand his meaning

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A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear

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4.3 Hamlet is very popular with the people

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He's loved of the distracted multitudes

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4.3 Hamlet's crude comment about Polonius in death

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At supper... not where he eats but where 'a is eaten

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4.3 Hamlet on how they will be able to smell Polonius

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You shall nose him

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4.4 Hamlet on the causes of war

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This th'impostume of much wealth and peace that inward break

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4.4 (soliloquy) Hamlet tries to incite revenge at the end of the soliloquy

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My thought be bloody, or be nothing worth

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4.4 (soliloquy) Hamlet on the hollow nature of man's passion

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Bestial oblivion

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4.1 Gertrude tells Claudius that Hamlet is mad

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Mad as the sea and wind when both contend/ which is the mightier.

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4.4 Gertrude refuses to talk to Ophelia

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I will not speak with her

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4.4 Gertrude defends Claudius to Laertes

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But not by him

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4.7 Claudius describes the attention Gertrude gives to Hamlet

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The Queen his mother lives almost by his looks

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4.7 (soliloquy) Gertrude highlights unrequited love as a cause of Ophelia's death

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There is a willow grows

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4.7 (soliloquy) Gertrude suggests Ophelia's death is an accident

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Fell in the weeping brook

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4.7 (soliloquy) Gertrude romanticises Ophelia's death

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Mermaid-like

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4.5 Laertes is rash and returns to Denmark with treasonous intent

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Young Laertes in riotous head

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4.5 Laertes wants to avenge his father, and is not concerned with punishment in the afterlife

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I'll dare damnation

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4.7 Laertes is isolated and alone in Denmark

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I have a noble father lost, and a sister driven into desperate terms

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4.7 Claudius praises Laertes' skill with a sword

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Your rapier most especial

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4.5 Ophelia has coherent thoughts despite her madness; a reflection on nature

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We know what we are but not what we may be

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5.1 Hamlet abhors the Gravediggers treatment of the skulls

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How the knave jowls [the skull] to the ground

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5.1 Hamlet comments on the Gravediggers manipulation of words

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How absolute the knave is!

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5.1 Hamlet comments of Yorick's skulls

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Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio

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5.1 Hamlet realises that Ophelia is dead

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What, the fair Ophelia?

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5.1 Hamlet reveals himself at Ophelia's funeral

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This is I, Hamlet the Dane

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5.1 Hamlet on his love for Ophelia (and how it exceeds Laertes' love for her)

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I loved Ophelia- forty thousand brother's could not with all the quantity of their love make up my sum

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5.1 Laertes begs the priest to help the dead Ophelia

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Must there no more be done?

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5.1 Laertes describes Ophelia's death as a tragedy

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From her fair and unpolluted flesh may violets spring

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5.1 Gertrude's comment at Ophelia's funeral

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I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid, And not have strew'd thy grave

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5.1 The Gravedigger comments on Ophelia suicide

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How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her own defence?

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5.1 The Second Man on Ophelia's high birth ensured her funeral occurred

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If this had not been a gentlewoman she should have been buried out o'Christian burial

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5.1 Hamlet comments on The Gravedigger's singing

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'A sings in gravemaking

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5.1 The Gravedigger jokes that the English are mad

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There the men are as mad as he

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5.2 Hamlet discusses the inevitability of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's death

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'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes between... mighty opposites

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5.2 Claudius throws a pearl in a cup to try to poison Hamlet

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In this cup a union shall he throw

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5.2 Claudius announces that Hamlet will win the duel

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Our son shall win

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5.2 Claudius tries to detract attention from a dying Gertrude

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She swoons to see them bleed

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5.2 The weather according to Osric

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It is very hot

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5.2 Hamlet on his waring nature and inability to relax

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Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting that would not let me sleep

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5.2 Hamlet kills Rosencrantz and Guildenstern with a faked letter

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He should the bearers put to sudden death

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5.2 Hamlet uses his father's seal

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I had my father's signet in my purse

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5.2 Hamlet justifies the killing of Claudius as ridding the world of a great evil

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Is 't not to be damned to let this canker of our nature come in further evil?

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5.2 Hamlet states that the duel is not serious

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I will gain nothing but my shame and the odd hit

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5.2 Hamlet on the inevitability of death (sparrow quote)

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There is a special provenance in the fall of a sparrow

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5.2 Hamlet begs Laertes forgiveness

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Give me your pardon

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5.2 Hamlet makes reference to the foils

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These foils have all a length

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5.2 Hamlet forces Claudius to drink poison

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Drink of this poison

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5.2 Hamlet supports Fortinbras in death

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On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice

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5.2 Hamlet, in his last line, is at peace

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The rest is silence

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5.2 Fortinbras 'organise' Hamlet's funeral

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Bear Hamlet like a soldier

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5.2 Gertrude drinks the poison

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I will, my Lord. I pray you pardon me

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5.2 Laertes on the ironic nature of his death

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As a woodcock to my own spring

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5.2 Laertes exposes Claudius

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the King, the King's to blame

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5.2 Laertes, dying, asks Hamlet for forgiveness

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Exchange forgiveness with me noble Hamlet

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5.2 Horatio's statement as he tries to commit suicide

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I am more an antique Roman than a Dane

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