Final Hamlet quotes

Question 1

Hamlet faking madness

Answer 1

“To put an antic disposition on” (act 1, scene 5)

Question 2

Hamlet literally contemplating suicide

Answer 2

“Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them” (act 3, scene 1)

Question 3

The Ghost instructing revenge

Answer 3

“Revenge my most foul and unnatural murder” (act 1, scene 5)

Question 4

Hamlet saying Claudius cannot be saved

Answer 4

“There has no relish of salvation in’t” (act 3, scene 3)

Question 5

Hamlet insulting himself after hearing the player

Answer 5

“O what a rogue and peasant slave am I!”

Question 6

Hamlet’s “dread” about life and death

Answer 6

“But the dread of something after death”
“The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns”

Question 7

Withdrawn: Hamlet accepting fate and about to fight Laertes

Answer 7

“If it be now, ‘tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now” (act 5, scene 2)

Question 8

Hamlet upset about Gertrude’s actions (early)

1.) Women 2.) sheets

Answer 8

“Frailty thy name is woman”
“With such dexterity to incestuous sheets”

Question 9

Hamlet confronting Gertrude after Mousetrap

Answer 9

“Oh shame, where is thy blush?” (act 3, scene 4)

Question 10

Hamlet (mad?) confronting Ophelia

Answer 10

“Get thee to a nunnery” (act 3, scene 1)

Question 11

Hamlet’s anger at Gertrude for Claudius in her closet

“stew’d”

Answer 11

“Rank sweat of an enseamed bed, stew’d in corruption”

Question 12

Hamlet stating difference between King Hamlet and Claudius

Answer 12

“No more like my father than I to Hercules” (act 1, scene 2)

Question 13

Claudius wrestling with guilt post murder

Answer 13

“My offence is rank, it smells to heaven”

Question 14

The Ghost defending Gertrude

Answer 14

“Most seeming virtuous queen” (act 1, scene 5)

Question 15

Claudius’ reasoning for murder

Answer 15

“Effects for which I did the murder: my crown, mine own ambition, and my queen” (act 3, scene 3)

Question 16

Gertrude defending Hamlet’s action

Answer 16

“Shows itself pure, he weeps for what is done” (act 4, scene 1)

Question 17

Gertrude potentially protecting Hamlet

Answer 17

“Oh my dear Hamlet - the drink, the drink - I am poisoned” (act 5, scene 2)

Question 18

Marcellus about Denmark

Answer 18

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” (act 1, scene 4)

Question 19

Claudius minimising King Hamlet’s death to Hamlet

Answer 19

“You must know your father lost a father, that father lost, lost his” (act 1, scene 2)

Question 20

Hamlet sadly comparing Claudius to King Hamlet

“Hyperion”

Answer 20

“So excellent a king, that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr” (act 1, scene 2)

Question 21

Hamlet explaining why he will kill Claudius when he is not praying

Answer 21

“That has no relish of salvation in ‘t” (act 3, scene 3)

Question 22

Polonius using Ophelia to catch Hamlet

Answer 22

“I’ll loose my daughter to him” (act 2, scene 2)

Question 23

Hamlet berating Ophelia

Answer 23

“Get thee to a nunnery!”

Question 24

Hamlet wondering how the players can express such emotion

Answer 24

“What is Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba that he should weep for her?”

Question 25

Hamlet scheming to catch Claudius with the play

Answer 25

“The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king”

Question 26

Hamlet contemplating suicide

Answer 26

“O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew.”

Question 27

Claudius praying for his many sins

Answer 27

“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; words without thoughts never to heaven go.”

Question 28

Hamlet disrespecting Ophelia

Answer 28

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another…it hath make me mad”