Hamlet

Question 1

Bird

Answer 1

“I am pigeon-livered and lack gall”

Question 2

Coward

Answer 2

“Am I a coward?”

Question 3

Ambition to Ophelia

Answer 3

“proud, revengeful, ambitious” (to Ophelia)

False representation of himself – has intentions but cannot carry them through

Question 4

Catch

Answer 4

• “the play’s the thing/ Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king”

Question 5

Kill villain

Answer 5

“A villain kills my father, and for that I his sole son do this same villain send/ To heaven”

Question 6

Overthinking

Answer 6

“thinking too precisely on the event”

Question 7

Quartered thoughts

Answer 7

“a thought which quartered hath but one part wisdom, And ever three parts coward”

Question 8

Bloody thoughts

Answer 8

• “O from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth”

After seeing Fortinbras’ army – they are willing to act according to the smallest motivation (the small patch of Polish land) and yet like with the players, he cannot stimulate himself to act

Question 9

His intention at birth

Answer 9

“O cursed spite/ That ever i was born to set it right”