Hamlet questions?!!!?

Question

Anyone know a quote from Hamlet about "violets" besides the ones that Laertes and Ophelia say? Also, is there a quote about Ophelia's virginity? Or lack there of? Thank you!

Answer 1

VIOLETS: these are the only scenes:
1.You must wear your rue with a difference. There ’s a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered.
Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

2. Lay her i’ the earth:
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring!
Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1.



OPHELIA'S VIRGINITY: Explore these scenes

The nunnery scene, with Ophelia manipulated into the posturing of a pseudo Mary, merits intense focus. For example, the curtains that Claudius and Polonius hide behind are, by the late sixteenth century, “quite commonly a part of Annunciation iconography”. Such “distorted and parodied Annunciation motifs inform the impossible miracles that Hamlet demands of Ophelia and Gertrude, his maid and his mother,” as only Mary can fulfill both roles chastely. While evidence in the text suggests Ophelia’s virginity, the maid is “only a poor imitation of the thing itself,” of Mary: she is “a victim rather than a hero,” “used, manipulated, betrayed”. Hamlet too is unlike Mary due to “his distrust of God’s Providence” and his rejection of “the traditional Christian scheme of fall and redemption”. Although Hamlet “is never painted simply in Mary’s image”, he “is moving at the end of the play, inexorably if also inconsistently, towards letting be, ‘rest’ in a ‘silence,’ a wisdom, of Marian humility”.


Good luck

Answer 2

There is always "get thee to a nunnery". back then, and up until recently, when a woman was with child out of wedlock, they were sent away to a nunnery to have the child so that the parents and family were not embarrassed. Either Hamlet was being a jerk. which, I am inclined to believe, or he was making a reference to her non-existent virginity. Also the whole scene between Hamlet and Ophelia, right after his "To be or not to Be" monologue, could be considered as well.

HAMLET

Ha, ha! are you honest?

OPHELIA

My lord?

HAMLET

Are you fair?

OPHELIA

What means your lordship?

HAMLET

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should
admit no discourse to your beauty.


(skip some)

HAMLET

You should not have believed me; for virtue cannot
so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of
it: I loved you not.

OPHELIA

I was the more deceived.

You could interpret that as Hamlet and Ophelia getting it on at one point.

Answer 3

as for ophelia's virginity you could interpret hamlet's comment "get thee to a nunnery" to be that and there may be one where polonius reads the letter hamlet wrote to ophelia. i hope that helps (sorry if it doesn't i havent read the play in its entirety since 8th grade)

Answer 4

In the 1603 quarto version of "Hamlet" there is quite a deal made out of "get thee to a nunnery" in Act III Sc.I:

Ham.O thou shouldst not a beleeued me!
Go to a Nunnery goe, why shouldst thou
Be a breeder of sinners? I am my selfe indifferent honest,
But I could accuse my selfe of such crimes
It had beene better my mother had ne're borne me,
O I am very prowde, ambitious, disdainefull,
1780With more sinnes at my becke, then I haue thoughts
To put them in, what should such fellowes as I
Do, crawling between heauen and earth?
To a Nunnery goe, we are arrant knaues all,
Beleeue none of vs, to a Nunnery goe.

Ofel.O heauens secure him!

1785Ham.Wher's thy father?

Ofel.At home my lord.

Ham.For Gods sake let the doores be shut on him,
He may play the foole now where but in his
Owne house: to a Nunnery goe.

Ofel.Help him good God.

1790Ham.If thou dost marry, Ile giue thee
1790This plague to thy dowry:
Be thou as chaste as yce, as pure as snowe,
Thou shalt not scape calumny, to a Nunnery goe.

1792.1Ofel.Alas, what change is this?

Ham.But if thou wilt needes marry, marry a foole,
For wisemen know well enough,
What monsters you make of them, to a Nunnery goe.

Ofel.Pray God restore him.

Ham.Nay, I haue heard of your paintings too,
God hath giuen you one face,
And you make your selues another,
1800You sig, and you amble, and you nickname Gods creatures,
Making your wantonnesse, your ignorance,
A pox, t'is scuruy, Ile no more of it,
It hath made me madde: Ile no more marriages,
All that are married but one, shall liue,
The rest shall keepe as they are, to a Nunnery goe

A "nunnery" was an Elizabethan English slang term for a brothel. Hamlet seems not to think much of Ophelia's virginity.