Act 4 Scene 1

Question 1

Mad as the sea and wind

Answer 1

S: Queen
C: The Queen is speaking to Claudius.
1) Telling the King that Hamlet is in fact crazy.
2) Gertrude is staying loyal to Hamlet, her connection with Claudius is dissipating and she is getting more remorseful.

Question 2

It had been so with us, had we been there.
His liberty is full of threats to all,
To you yourself, to us, to every one.

Answer 2

S: King
C: King is saying that Hamlet wouldn’t have killed Polonius if he knew it was actually him.
1) Claudius is right + aware, hes acting more swift and intelligent then at the beginning of the play
2) Claudius suspects that Hamlet is coming for him and wants to kill him.
3) foreshadows hamlets death
4) ironic bc hamlets liberty rlly isnt a threat to anyone, not even claudius bc hamlet is a man of inaction