Hamlet Revision
Scene Events Quotes Themes Characters
-Marcellus and Bernardo have "Who's there?"
seen a ghost on the castle "Tis bitter cold and i am sick at
battlements for the past two heart."
nights. ‘It harrows me with fear and
wonder’
-Horatio comes to investigate "Horatio says tis but our
and Marcellus informs the fantasy"
other guards that Horatio has "This bodes some strange
said '‘tis but our fantasy’ Marcellus
eruption to our state."
Act 1 Scene 1 ‘Implements of war ...
Horatio
-Suddenly, the apparition
appears looking exactly like shipwrights ... does not divide Bernardo
Old Hamlet the Sunday from the week’ Corruption Old Hamlet
‘Is the main motives of our War
-Horatio explains to the preparations’
guards how the Fortinbras
tried to conquer Denmark but
was killed by Old Hamlet.
Act 1 Scene 2 -King Claudius addresses the
court and talks about the sad ‘Our dear brother's death the
death of his brother, Old memory be green."
Hamlet ‘Our sometime sister, now our
queen’
-He then toasts his marriage ‘A little more than kin, and less
to his brother’s wife,
Gertrude.
than kind’ Corruption Claudius
‘How is it that clouds still hang Death / Grief Gertrude
-He then continues to address on you?’
‘My lord I am too much in the
Morality / Moral Hamlet
political problems by talking
about Prince Fortinbras of sun’ Contemplation Horatio
Norway. ‘Cast thy nighted colour off ... Manipulation
all that lives must die’
‘O that this too, too sallied flesh
would melt, thaw, and resolve
itself into a dew’
, -Claudius gives Laertes ‘How weary, stale, flat and
permission to return to his unprofitable’
studies in France. ‘Frailty thy name is woman’
‘O most wicked speed’
-Gertrude and Claudius then ‘With such dexterity to
speak to Hamlet and urge him incestuous sheets’
to stop grieving over his ‘I must hold my tongue’
father. ‘The funeral baked meats did
-Hamlet is appalled by his coldly furnish forth the
mother’s marriage to his marriage tables’
uncle.
-His good friend Horatio
interrupts him to report that
he’s seen the ghost of his
father.
Act 1 Scene 3 -Before Laertes returns to ‘Fashion ... youth ... primy ...
France, he encourages his not lasting ... perfume’
sister Ophelia not to take ‘For on his choice depends the
Hamlet’s wooing seriously. safety and health of this whole
state’
-Polonius then gives Laertes ‘Chaste treasure open ... fear it
some fatherly advice for while Ophelia’
he studies abroad and also
Women
‘This above all: to thine own self Family Laertes
tells Ophelia to stay away be true’
from Hamlet. ‘Tis in my memory locked’
Corruption Polonius
‘If she unmask her beauty..." Status Ophelia
"free" / "bounteous" / Power Imbalances
"tenders"
"It behoves my daughter and
your honour"
‘You speak like a green girl’
‘Think yourself a baby’
‘You’ll tender me a fool’
‘Ophelia, Do not believe his
vows’
, Act 1 Scene 4 -Hamlet meets Horatio at ‘They clepe us drunkards with
night to try and see the ghost swinish phrase’
for himself. ‘Be thou a spirit of health or
goblin dammed’
Morality
-The apparition appears and ‘By thy intents, wicked or Action vs Inaction Hamlet
Hamlet says, ‘be thou a spirit charitable’ Moral Contemplation Horatio
of health or goblin damned'. ‘What if it may tempt you Supernatural The Ghost
-The ghost beckons Hamlet to towards the flood, my lord?’
follow him. ‘Draw you into madness?’
‘Something is rotten in the state
of Denmark’
Act 1 Scene 5 -The ghost tells Hamlet how ‘Alas poor ghost!’
he was murdered by his ‘Speak. I am bound to hear’
brother, Claudius. ‘If thou didst ever thy dear
father love-’
-He reveals that Claudius ‘Revenge his foul and most
poured poison in his ear while unnatural murder’
he was asleep ‘Wings as swift / As meditation
-He instructs Hamlet to or the thoughts of love’
'Revenge his foul and most ‘The serpent that did sting thy
father’s life now wears his
Supernatural The Ghost
unnatural murder'.
crown’ Revenge Hamlet
-The ghost disappears and ‘My most seemingly virtuous Manipulation Horatio
when Hamlet tells Horatio and queen’ Deception Marcellus
Marcellus what has happened ‘Leave her to heaven. And to Corruption
he begs them not to tell those thorns that in her bosom
anyone. lodge’
‘That one may smile, and smile,
-The ghost reappears and
and be a villain’
forces them to 'Swear.' The
‘An antic disposition’
two men immediately give
their word.
Act 2 Scene 1 -Polonius employs a servant ‘To make inquire of his
to travel to Paris and spy on behaviour’
his son, Laertes. ‘My lord that would dishonour
him’
Reputation / Status
Scene Events Quotes Themes Characters
-Marcellus and Bernardo have "Who's there?"
seen a ghost on the castle "Tis bitter cold and i am sick at
battlements for the past two heart."
nights. ‘It harrows me with fear and
wonder’
-Horatio comes to investigate "Horatio says tis but our
and Marcellus informs the fantasy"
other guards that Horatio has "This bodes some strange
said '‘tis but our fantasy’ Marcellus
eruption to our state."
Act 1 Scene 1 ‘Implements of war ...
Horatio
-Suddenly, the apparition
appears looking exactly like shipwrights ... does not divide Bernardo
Old Hamlet the Sunday from the week’ Corruption Old Hamlet
‘Is the main motives of our War
-Horatio explains to the preparations’
guards how the Fortinbras
tried to conquer Denmark but
was killed by Old Hamlet.
Act 1 Scene 2 -King Claudius addresses the
court and talks about the sad ‘Our dear brother's death the
death of his brother, Old memory be green."
Hamlet ‘Our sometime sister, now our
queen’
-He then toasts his marriage ‘A little more than kin, and less
to his brother’s wife,
Gertrude.
than kind’ Corruption Claudius
‘How is it that clouds still hang Death / Grief Gertrude
-He then continues to address on you?’
‘My lord I am too much in the
Morality / Moral Hamlet
political problems by talking
about Prince Fortinbras of sun’ Contemplation Horatio
Norway. ‘Cast thy nighted colour off ... Manipulation
all that lives must die’
‘O that this too, too sallied flesh
would melt, thaw, and resolve
itself into a dew’
, -Claudius gives Laertes ‘How weary, stale, flat and
permission to return to his unprofitable’
studies in France. ‘Frailty thy name is woman’
‘O most wicked speed’
-Gertrude and Claudius then ‘With such dexterity to
speak to Hamlet and urge him incestuous sheets’
to stop grieving over his ‘I must hold my tongue’
father. ‘The funeral baked meats did
-Hamlet is appalled by his coldly furnish forth the
mother’s marriage to his marriage tables’
uncle.
-His good friend Horatio
interrupts him to report that
he’s seen the ghost of his
father.
Act 1 Scene 3 -Before Laertes returns to ‘Fashion ... youth ... primy ...
France, he encourages his not lasting ... perfume’
sister Ophelia not to take ‘For on his choice depends the
Hamlet’s wooing seriously. safety and health of this whole
state’
-Polonius then gives Laertes ‘Chaste treasure open ... fear it
some fatherly advice for while Ophelia’
he studies abroad and also
Women
‘This above all: to thine own self Family Laertes
tells Ophelia to stay away be true’
from Hamlet. ‘Tis in my memory locked’
Corruption Polonius
‘If she unmask her beauty..." Status Ophelia
"free" / "bounteous" / Power Imbalances
"tenders"
"It behoves my daughter and
your honour"
‘You speak like a green girl’
‘Think yourself a baby’
‘You’ll tender me a fool’
‘Ophelia, Do not believe his
vows’
, Act 1 Scene 4 -Hamlet meets Horatio at ‘They clepe us drunkards with
night to try and see the ghost swinish phrase’
for himself. ‘Be thou a spirit of health or
goblin dammed’
Morality
-The apparition appears and ‘By thy intents, wicked or Action vs Inaction Hamlet
Hamlet says, ‘be thou a spirit charitable’ Moral Contemplation Horatio
of health or goblin damned'. ‘What if it may tempt you Supernatural The Ghost
-The ghost beckons Hamlet to towards the flood, my lord?’
follow him. ‘Draw you into madness?’
‘Something is rotten in the state
of Denmark’
Act 1 Scene 5 -The ghost tells Hamlet how ‘Alas poor ghost!’
he was murdered by his ‘Speak. I am bound to hear’
brother, Claudius. ‘If thou didst ever thy dear
father love-’
-He reveals that Claudius ‘Revenge his foul and most
poured poison in his ear while unnatural murder’
he was asleep ‘Wings as swift / As meditation
-He instructs Hamlet to or the thoughts of love’
'Revenge his foul and most ‘The serpent that did sting thy
father’s life now wears his
Supernatural The Ghost
unnatural murder'.
crown’ Revenge Hamlet
-The ghost disappears and ‘My most seemingly virtuous Manipulation Horatio
when Hamlet tells Horatio and queen’ Deception Marcellus
Marcellus what has happened ‘Leave her to heaven. And to Corruption
he begs them not to tell those thorns that in her bosom
anyone. lodge’
‘That one may smile, and smile,
-The ghost reappears and
and be a villain’
forces them to 'Swear.' The
‘An antic disposition’
two men immediately give
their word.
Act 2 Scene 1 -Polonius employs a servant ‘To make inquire of his
to travel to Paris and spy on behaviour’
his son, Laertes. ‘My lord that would dishonour
him’
Reputation / Status
