Horatio, Marcellus, Francisco And Fortinbras Quotations

Question 1

Francisco is heartbroken as Denmark is ill, so his heart is sick

Answer 1

‘And I am sick at heart’

Question 2

Fortinbras name meaning

Answer 2

. Name is an antonym

. ‘Fort’ a military term and ‘bras’ is a metal used in swords, infers his warlike character, foil to Hamlet, impulsive

Question 3

How many soldiers and how much money has been spent on the pointless war, said by Hamlet

Answer 3

‘Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats’

Question 4

The captain says Fortinbras is fighting for land that has no value but they want to say they own it

Answer 4

‘a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name’

Question 5

Marcellus says there is something bad in Denmark

Answer 5

‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’

Question 6

Horatio - Could be about Claudius or Hamlet, could be praise or criticism for what Hamlet did to R + G

Answer 6

‘Why, what a king is this’

Question 7

Horatio says Hamlet seems mad after speaking with the ghost

Answer 7

‘These are but wild and whirling words my lord’

Question 8

Horatio - only character who does not deceive others, his last lines demand the truth is told

Answer 8

‘Speak to the yet unknowing world how these thing came about’ …. ‘All this I can truly deliver’