hamlet

Question 1

Hamlet struggles with thoughts of life and death, struggling to pick between which is better

Answer 1

slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
take up arms against a sea of troubles

dull muddy mettled rascal

hazlitt states that hamlet is a character of refined thought and sentiment

Question 2

hamlet while struggling with thoughts of inaction.

Answer 2

muddy mettled rascal
egg-shell
whats hecuba to him, or he to hecuba

mettle hot and full

Question 3

hamlets mother is topic of obsession

Answer 3

rank sweat of an enseamed bed stew’d with corruption.

Question 4

struggles with fillial piety, cant choose between roman or Christian cods. This shows the cutting of of religion henry 8th

Answer 4

‘revenge’ my ‘unnatural’ murder

‘doomed’ to ‘walk in the night’ and in the day, forced to ‘fast in fires’

Question 5

ophelia is nothing more than a tool

Answer 5

fish monger
‘forty thousand brothers’ could not compare go his love
hold off the world a while, until I have caught her once more in mine arms

Question 6

he treats ophelia badly but he clearly loves her

Answer 6

get thee to anunnery, why owuld she be a ‘breeder of sinners’
doubt that the ‘stars are fire’ doubt that the ‘sun doth move’, but never doubt i love’

Question 7

freed through death ophelia

Question 8

gertrude is implicit in knowing

Answer 8

thou turns’t my eyes into my very soul

black spots- moral awakening
o’er hasty marriage

great chain of being

tubb states that she is characterised as shallow by hamlet and his father

Question 9

fortinbras is his foil

Answer 9

may my thoughts be bloody
full and hot mettle
egg-shell
medieval thinking

Question 10

claudius’ attempts to insert himself as a father figure confirms to him his usurping nature

Answer 10

rank sweat of an enseamed be, stew’d with corruption.

hyperion to a satyr

Hamlet my son