Act 1 – Scene 1 – Barnardo | “Is it not something more than fantasy?” |
Act 1 – Scene 2 – Hamlet (soliloquy) | “His canon ‘gainst self slaughter” |
Act 2 – Scene 2 – Hamlet (monologue) | “paragon of animals…quintessence of dust” |
Act 2 – Scene 2 – Hamlet to Polonius | “Oh Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou?” |
Act 3 – Hamlet to Ophelia | “Get thee to a nunnery” |
Act 3 – Ophelia aside | “Heavenly powers restore him” |
Act 4 – Hamlet soliloquy | “Led by a delicate and tender princeWhose spirit with divine ambition puffed” |
Act 4 – Ophelia | “Lord we know what we are but not what we may be” |
Act 5 – Laertes about Ophelia | “ministering angel shall my sister be when thou liest howling” |
Act 5 – Gravedigger | “the gallows is built stronger than the church” |
English Literature – Hamlet – Religion Quotes
August 20, 2019