Hamlet Quotes by Theme

Question 1

Women’s unfair expectations - Ophelia

Answer 1

‘Steep and thorny way to heaven’

Question 2

Clothing identity - Polonius

Answer 2

‘The apparal oft proclaims the man’

Question 3

key/ virginity - Ophelia

Answer 3

‘Tis in my memory locked,
And you yourself shall keep the key of it

Question 4

simile to describe Ophelia - Polonius

Answer 4

‘like a green girl’

Question 5

response to Polonius’ questioning - Ophelia

Answer 5

‘I do not know my lord what I should think’

Question 6

women as a commodity - Polonius

Answer 6

‘tenders for true pay’

Question 7

Mens predatory nature on women - Polonius

Answer 7

‘Springes to catch woodcocks’

Question 8

hamlet’s sexism 1st soliquay - hamlet

Answer 8

‘frailty, thy name is woman’

Question 9

hamlet’s repression - hamlet

Answer 9

‘i must hold my tongue’

Question 10

metaphor for Denmark and Hamlet’s mind - Hamlet

Answer 10

‘an unweeded garden’

Question 11

emasculating Hamlet - Claudius

Answer 11

‘tis unmanly grief’

Question 11

divine right of kings - horatio

Answer 11

‘my lord, the king, your father’

Question 12

opening line of Hamlet - benardo

Answer 12

‘who’s there?’

Question 12

Ophelia’s first line - ophelia

Answer 12

‘do you doubt that?’

Question 13

horatio upon seeing hamlet dead

Answer 13

‘there’s yet some liquor left’

Question 14

hamlet to horatio as he dies

Answer 14

‘if thou did ever hold me in thy heart’

Question 15

hamlets question to gertrude during the closet scene

Answer 15

‘have you eyes?’

Question 16

gertrude can’t see the ghost

Answer 16

‘to whom do you speak this?’

Question 17

gertrude about hamlets madness

Answer 17

‘mad as the sea and wind’

Question 18

gertrude about hamlets reaction to killing polonius

Answer 18

‘he weeps for what hes done’

Question 19

hamlet telling claudius to find dead polonius

Answer 19

‘seek him in the other place yourself’

Question 20

claudius about england

Answer 20

‘the men there are as mad as he’

Question 21

hamlet wishes claudius to suffer in purgatory

Answer 21

‘and that his soul may be as damn’d and black’

Question 22

laertes to hamlet before the fight

Answer 22

‘exchange forgiveness with me, noble hamlet’

Question 23

ghosts wishes regarding gertrude

Answer 23

‘against thy mother aught, leave her to heaven’

Question 24

hamlet about fortinbras taking reign of denmark

Answer 24

‘he has my dying voice’

Question 25

hamlet’s thoughts

Answer 25

my thoughts be bloody or be nothing

Question 26

hamlet’s anger at his mother

Answer 26

oh most pernicious woman!

Question 27

hamlets hestitance at killing claudius

Answer 27

now might i do it

Question 28

conscience

Answer 28

thus conscience does make cowards of us all

Question 29

villain x 3

Answer 29

o villain, villain, smiling, damned villain

Question 30

hamlet as eager to act

Answer 30

sweep to my revenge

Question 31

hamlet wants his friends in act 1 he will put on:

Answer 31

‘an antic disposition’

Question 32

hamlet would have proved:

Answer 32

most royal