Hamlet - Scene Quotes Act 3

Question 1

’ To be or not to be. ‘ ‘to die to sleep ‘ ‘the dread of something after death the undiscovered country’

Answer 1

Hamlet
Scene I
infamous soliloquy
His question of opposites - his philosophy opposing his action
Resents his conscience - contemplation of suicide

Question 2

’ The fair Ophelia!- nymph’

Answer 2

Hamlet
Scene 1
Mythological deity - overtly sexualised relating fertility

Question 3

’ 1 did love you once ‘’ you should not have believed me… I Loved you not’’ get thee to a nunnery’

Answer 3

Hamlet
Scene I
Shifts blame to her
Constant discussion of her sexuality and insults her through her innocence and purity

Question 4

’ The mirror up to nature’

Answer 4

Hamlet
Scene 2
Metatheatre
Purpose of theatre to reflect reality
Moment of lucidity with placing an argument backed with evidence - still able to turn madness on and off

Question 5

’ 1 did enact Julius ceaser’

Answer 5

Polonius
Scene 2
Link to tyranny being stabbed - political power of advisors

Question 6

’ I will speak daggers to her, but use none.’

Answer 6

Hamlet
Scene 2
How language can be used as pain
‘ leave her to heaven’ - ghost in Act l scene 5

Question 7

’ O, my offence is rank’ ‘ primal eldest curse upon’t, A brothers murder’ ‘ forgive me my foul murder’’ this cursed hand were thicker then itself with brothers blood’ ‘ my crown, mine own ambition, and my queen’

Answer 7

Claudius
Scene 3
Admission of grief in soliloquy
Biblical reference to cane and Abel