Hamlet Quotes WIP

Question 1

Grief - woe

Answer 1

“throw to earth this unprevailing woe”

Question 2

Struggle - sea

Answer 2

“To take arms against a sea of troubles”

Question 3

Death - attitudes antithesis

Answer 3

“consummation devoutly to be wish’d” “dread”

Question 4

Grief - duties

Answer 4

“To give these mourning duties to your father”

Question 5

Antithesis - cruelty

Answer 5

“I must be cruel only to be kind”

Question 6

Playing vs reality - blank verse

Answer 6

“The lady shall say her mind freely/Or the blank verse shall halt for it”

Question 7

Death - sleep

Answer 7

“to die, to sleep, to sleep perchance to dream”

Question 8

Playing vs reality - guilt

Answer 8

“I have heard that guilty creates sitting at a play… have proclaimed their malefactions”

Question 9

Uncertainty and Antithesis - ghost

Answer 9

“a spirit of health or goblin damn’d” “airs from heaven or blasts from hell”

Question 10

Uncertainty - my mystery

Answer 10

“You would pluck out the heart of my mystery”

Question 11

Antithesis - air

Answer 11

“this most excellent canopy the air” “foul and pestilent congregation of vapours”

Question 12

Playing vs reality - speech

Answer 12

“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you”

Question 13

Playing vs reality - face

Answer 13

“God hath given you one face and you make yourself another”

Question 14

Antithesis - man

Answer 14

“beauty of the world, the paragon of animals” “a quintessence of dust”

Question 15

Playing vs reality - actions

Answer 15

“For they are actions that a man might play”

Question 16

Playing vs reality and delay - motive

Answer 16

“What would he do had he the motive and the cue of passion that I have”

Question 17

Grief - fault

Answer 17

“Fie! ‘tis a fault to heaven,/A fault against the seat, a fault to nature, To reason most absurd”

Question 18

Playing vs reality - seems

Answer 18

“Seems, madam! nay it is, I know not ‘seems’”

Question 19

Antithesis - earth

Answer 19

“This goodly frame, the earth” “sterile promontory”

Question 20

Playing vs reality and delay - Pyrrhus

Answer 20

“And like a neutral to his will and matter,/ Did nothing.”

Question 21

Grief - black clothes

Answer 21

“cast they nighted colour off”

Question 22

Revenge - cursed spite

Answer 22

“O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right”

Question 23

The search for one’s place in the world - Hamlet’s critical nature of himself

Answer 23

“O what a rogue and peasant slave am I”

Question 24

Grief - ceremony

Answer 24

“What ceremony else? What ceremony else?

Question 25

Death - flesh

Answer 25

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

Question 26

The search for one’s place in the world - Hamlet finding his place in the world

Answer 26

“The is I,/Hamlet the Dane”

Question 27

Playing vs reality - smile

Answer 27

“that one may smile and smile and be a villain”