| JEALOUS LOVER Hamlet telling her what to do | Goodnight, but go not to my Uncle’s bed |
| JEALOUS LOVER Hamlet confused when telling her what to do (parallel to Claudius) | Not this, by no means, that I bid you do- Let the bloat King not tempt you again to bed |
| JEALOUS LOVER Hamlet’s view of Claudius | So excellent a King, that was to this hyperion a satyr |
| OBSESSION WITH SEX LIFE: Comment on Queen jumping ship | to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets |
| OBSESSION WITH SEX LIFE: Description of her lovemaking | In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, Stewed in Corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty |
| OBSESSION WITH SEX LIFE: Her love with Claudius | Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse, And let him for a pair of reachy kisses or paddling in your neck with his damned fingers |
| SEXUAL IMAGERY: | ‘these words, like daggers, enter my ears’ |
| REASON FOR HIS CONTAMINATION: First lines of first soliloquy | O that this too too sallied flesh would melt |
| REASON FOR HIS CONTAMINATION: about wax | To flaming youth let virtue be as wax, and Melt in her own fire |
| NOT UNDERSTANDING HIM: his cloak | But I have that within which passeth show, These but the trappings and the suits of woe |
| NOT UNDERSTANDING HIM: Can’t say anything, no one to talk to | But, break my heart for I must hold my tongue |
| HATRED FOR WOMEN: in general | Frailty, thy name is women |
| HATRED FOR WOMEN: about the play | Tis brief – much like a woman’s love |
| HATRED FOR WOMEN: Final lines | Wretched Queen, adieu |
| HATRED FOR WOMEN: To Ophelia | I loved you once, I loved you not |
Hamlet and Gertrude Relationship Quotes
July 8, 2019