Corruption

Question 1

In relation to Denmark

Answer 1

‘Who’s there?’ - immediately, paranoia is conveyed through repeated questions = points to wider societal instability and (spiritual) tension of the setting
“I am sick at heart”
“tis an unweeded garden, that grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature”
“something is rotten in the state of Denmark”
“Denmark’s a prison”
‘the people muddied, thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers’

Question 2

Corruption In relation to Claudius

Answer 2

“whose sore task does not divide the Sunday from the week… make the night-joint labourer with the day”
“But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son”
Corruption of King Hamlet spread to Kingdom: “with vile and loathsome crust All my smooth body.”
“Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damnèd incest.”
“like a mildew’d ear, blasting hi wholesome brother”
Claudius ironically “wants not buzzers to infect his ear with pestilent speeches of his father’s death”

Question 3

Corruption In relation to Gertrude’s sin

Answer 3

“my very soul and there i see such black and grained spots as will not leave their tinct”
“to live in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, stew’d in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty”

Question 4

Corruption: Claudius in Scene 3, Act 3

Answer 4

‘the corrupted currents of this world’

Question 5

Act 4, Scene 4, in which Hamlet describes Fortinbras

Answer 5

‘two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats…this is th’impostume of much wealth and peace’

Question 6

Corruption In relation to Hamlet himself

Answer 6

“diseases desperate grown by desperate appliance are relieved, or not at all”
“he most violent author of his own just remove: the people muddied, thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers”

Question 7

HAMLET showing signs of INSOMNIA on trip to england in Act 5 scene 2

Answer 7

‘There was a kind of fighting that would not let me sleep’
Elizabethan view of this as proof of possession / evil ness in soul - REVENGE AS CORRUPTING SOUL

Question 8

Ghost talking about Claudius crime 1.5

Answer 8

By a brother’s hand, of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatched…let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damnèd incest.’
- GHOST sounds like HAMLET later on - fathers life and desire becomes HAMLETS - INTERDEPENDENCE OF KING & STATE

Question 9

Hamlet’s evil speech at end of 3.1

Answer 9

‘Tis now the very witching time of night when…hell itself breathes out contagion to this world. Now could i drink hot blood’