Act 3 Key Quotez

Question 1

What does hamlet say in scene 1 about life or death?

Answer 1

To be or not to be, that is the question

Question 2

What does hamlet say in scene one about enduring suffering or taking action against hardships ?

Answer 2

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take arms against a sea of troubles

Question 3

What does hamlet say to Ophelia in scene 1 which express his disillusionment of women ?

Answer 3

Get thee to a nunnery, why would thou be a breeder of sinners

Question 4

What does hamlet say in scene 2 about seeing if Claudius is guilty or not ?

Answer 4

The plays the thing wherein ill catch the conscience of the king

Question 5

What does hamlet say in scene 2 to horatio about loyalty ?

Answer 5

Give me that man this is not passions slave

Question 6

What does Claudius say whilst confessing during scene 3 ?

Answer 6

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven. It hath the primal eldest curse upon a brother’s murder.

Question 7

What does hamlet say when hesitating to kill Claudius in scene 3 ?

Answer 7

Now might I do it pat, now he is praying and now I’ll do it and so he goes to heaven.

Question 8

What does hamlet say to Gertrude about her marriage to Claudius in scene 4

Answer 8

You are the queen, your husbands brothers wife and -would it were not so-you are my mother

Question 9

What is Gertrude’s response to hamlets accusations in scene 4 ?

Answer 9

O hamlet thou hast cleft my heart in Twain

Question 10

What does hamlet say to justify his harsh treatment of his mother in scene 4

Answer 10

I must be cruel, only to be kind, thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.