Key Quotations - Polonius

Question 1

Spying on Hamlet with Claudius in the nunnery scene

Answer 1

‘Be you and I behind the arras then’

Question 2

Polonius’ death words

Answer 2

‘O, I am slain!’

Question 3

Polonius aside about Hamlet’s madness

Answer 3

‘Though this be madness, yet there’s method in’t’
(Madness)

Question 4

Polonius using Ophelia as a pawn

Answer 4

‘I’ll loose my daughter to him’
(Gender)

Question 5

Polonius on Ophelia after discovering her relationship with Hamlet

Answer 5

‘Pooh, you speak like a green girl’
(Gender)