hamlet act 4

Question 1

what does gertrude tell to claudius about hamlet

Answer 1

that hamlet is mad

— keeps hamlet’s promise

Question 2

“it had been so with us, had we been there.”

Answer 2

king to queen

Question 3

“besides to be demanded of a sponge”
speaker to who?
meaning?

Answer 3

hamlet to r and g

r and g are sponges bc they soak from hamlet and empty to the king

Question 4

why can’t claudius execute hamlet

Answer 4

the public loves hamlet

Question 5

“not where he eats, but where he is eaten”
speaker to who?
he?

Answer 5

hamlet to king about polonius

Question 6

“if your messenger find him not there, seek him i’ the other place yourself”
speaker to who?
meaning?

Answer 6

hamlet to king

saying that if you don’t find polonius in heaven then you can go searching for him in hell

Question 7

there is a comparison to macbeth saying i wish your horses swift hooded to what part of this play

Answer 7

when the king says that the bark is ready and the wind at help. the associates tend, and everything is bent for englad

Question 8

“father and mother is man and wife, man wand wife is one felsh, and so, my mother. “

speaker? meaning?

Answer 8

hamlet

incest explanation

Question 9

“do it england;
for like the hectic in my blood he rages”
speaker?
about?

Answer 9

king about killing hamlet “do it”

hamlet rages in claudius’ blood

Question 10

fate in this act

Answer 10

hamlet running into fortinbras

Question 11

describe the land that fortinbras is fighting for

Answer 11

worthless,

Question 12

why is fortinbras fighting

Answer 12

he is a man of action

Question 13

the land is compared to what

Answer 13

straw and eggshell

Question 14

“will not debate the quesiton of this _____ “
speaker
____?
meaning?

Answer 14

straw

hamlet

Question 15

"looking before and after, gave us not
that capability and godlike reason
to fust in us unused."
speaker?
meaning?

Answer 15

hamlet

we weren’t given brain and ability to rust them over

Question 16

the land that fortinbras’ men is fighting for won’t even

Answer 16

be big enough to hold all their graves.

Question 17

led y a delicate and tender prince?

who is the prince and speaker

Answer 17

prince- fortinbras

speaker-hamelt

Question 18

"even for an \_\_\_\_\_\_. Rightly to be great
is not to stir without great argument,
but greatly to find quarrel in a straw
when honor's ath the stake"
speaker?

Answer 18

eggshell
hamelt is the speaker
describes fortinbras

Question 19

“my thoughts be bloody , or be nothign worth”

meaning

Answer 19

hamlet finally turns into a man of action

Question 20

contents of ophelia’s song

Answer 20

father’s death
hamlet taking her virginity
doesnt have to marry bc hamlet’s had her

Question 21

hugger mugger means

Answer 21

secretive

Question 22

“how cheerfully on the false trail they cry
O, this is counter, you false danish dogs!”
speaker
ironies?

Answer 22

gertrude
it is the right trail- danes going against claudius
-queen can easily change her loyalty
- false danish dogs follow laertes

Question 23

who holds back laertes

Answer 23

gertrude

Question 24

“theres such divinity doth hedge a king”

spekaer?irony?

Answer 24

claudius

irony- the divine right did not protect king hamlet

Question 25

how is laertes a foil to hamlet

Answer 25

laertes wants revenge.

Question 26

“and where the offence is, let teh great axe fall”
speaker?
irony?

Answer 26

claudius

he was the first offence

Question 27

two reasons why claudius can’t kill hamlet

Answer 27

he loves gertrude and gertrude loves hamlet

he’s loved by the public

Question 28

“you must not think that we are made of stuff so flat and dull”
speaker?
meaning?
to who?

Answer 28

claudius to laertes

don’t lose sleep over it

Question 29

what does naked mean

Answer 29

unarmed

Question 30

who is described as naked

Answer 30

hamelt

Question 31

what is the horseman’s name

Answer 31

Lamord

Question 32

“or are you like the painting of a sorrow
a face without a heart”
speaker to who?

Answer 32

king to laertes

Question 33

“there lives within the very flame of love
a kind of wick or snuff tht will abate it”
speaker to who?
meaning?

Answer 33

king to laertes

the more time you spend with someone the more you love them.

Question 34

3 ways that lartes and king plan on killing hamlet

Answer 34

laertes will tip the point of his sword with poison just in case he doesn’t stab deep enough
posion his drink
blunt his sword

Question 35

“no place indeed should murder sanctuarize.
revenge should have no bounds”
spekaer to who?

Answer 35

king to laertes

Question 36

“the women will be out” means

Answer 36

he will show his greif when they are gone

Question 37

how does ophelia die

Answer 37

she was picking flowers and she fell and drowned due to her heavy clothes. she was singing while she was going under.