Act 4 Scene 4

Question 1

I do not know
Why yet I live to say, “this thing’s to do,”
Sit I have cause, and will, and strength, and means, to do’t.

Answer 1

S: Hamlet
C: This is part of Hamlet’s last soliloquy, he speaks about how he respects Fortinbras for leading 40k men to follow him while Hamlet can’t even follow himself.
1) Feels the self-deprecation he always does in these soliloquies.
2) Seeing Fortibras’ army really makes him question why he hasn’t done anything all this time, when he’s always had the means (the money, the people, the power).

Question 2

Witness this army, of such mass and charge,
Led by a delicate and tender prince,
Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff’d
Makes mouths at the invisible event,

Answer 2

S: Hamlet
C: This is Hamlet’s last soliloquy, he speaks about how he respects Fortinbras for leading 40k men to follow him while Hamlet can’t even follow himself.
1) Hamlet looks at Fortinbras as a better version of himself, as an idol almost.
2) Fortinbras is like the Hamlet of Norway, he wants to avenge the death of his father. Unlike Hamlet, Fortinbras is actually getting it done.