Quotes

Question 1

Horatio
with that fair

Answer 1

and war-like form … this bodes some strange eruption to our state

Question 2

Claudius
Our dear brother’s

Answer 2

death […] the memory be green

Question 3

Claudius + Hamlet
My cousin Hamlet, and my

Answer 3

son
H: A little more than kin, a little less than kind
C: How is it that the clouds still hang over you?
H: No, so my lord, I am too much in the sun

Question 4

Hamlet
This too too

Answer 4

solid flesh would melt … or that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon against self-slaughter

Question 5

Hamlet
So excellent

Answer 5

a king that was to this Hyperion to a Satyr … my father’s brother, but no more like my father than I to Hercules

Question 6

Hamlet
Like Niobe

Answer 6

all tears … she married. O most wicked speed

Question 7

Friendship
Horatio + Hamlet vs R+G

Answer 7

Horatio: Hail to your Lorship!
Hamlet: Sir, my good friend
+ “Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince.”
Vs.
Hamlet: Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?

Question 8

Polonius’ parenting

Answer 8

P: Like a green girl
O: I shall obey my lord
vs. Laertes: ‘my father’ = close realtionship: Polonius’ advice to Laertes = “give thy thoughts no tongue” — think before you speak — yet sends Reynaldo to spy on him to make sure he follows his advice
Polonius cares for the family reputation = order of pronouns in ‘my daughter and your honour’
vs. Ophelia is witty with Laertes - rebuffs his advice by saying that he should not be hypercritical as a ‘puff’d and reckless libertine’

Question 9

Marcel
Something is rotten

Answer 9

in the state of Denmark

Question 10

Ghost/Hamlet Snr.
Telling Hamlet to revenge him

Answer 10

If thou didst ever thy dear father love … revenge his foul and most unatural murder

Question 11

Hamlet
Am I a

Answer 11

coward? … Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face
— questioning masculinity = C describes Hamlet as having ‘unmanly grief’

Question 12

Hamlet
Bloody

Answer 12

Bawdy villain!

Question 13

Hamlet + Ophelia
Get thee

Answer 13

to a nunnery

O help him high heavens!

Question 14

Claudius
O my offense is rank, it …

Answer 14

smells to heavens … my crown, mine own ambition, and my Queen
— praying so Hamlet does not kill him vs. Laertes as a foil to Hamlet states he will kill Hamlet in the chapel, which is where Hamlet could not = I’d cut this throat in the chapel

Question 15

Hamlet reacts to Claudius praying

Answer 15

Like a mildewed ear … a bloody deed

Question 16

Gertrude reacts to Hamlet killing Polonius

Answer 16

O what a rash and bloody deed this is

O gentle son … sweet hamlet … How is’t with you?

As kill a king!

Question 17

Claudius
Where is

Answer 17

your son
vs. ‘our son’ in public
+ criticises his ‘unamnly grief’ = too emotive and not masculine enough

Question 18

Claudius 4:2 banishes Hamlet…
Like the hectic

Answer 18

in my blood he rages and thou must cure me!

Question 19

Ophelia mad

Answer 19

Good night, ladies, good night. Sweet ladies, good night, good night

Question 20

Claudius reacts to Ophelia being mad

Answer 20

• O this is the poison of deep grief; it springs all from her father’s death
  –> draws attention away from Hamlet who she suggests in her song that she misses him, with the mention of ‘tomorow is Saint Valentine’s day’
• What sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions
• Poor Ophelia, divided from herself and her fair judgement
  (vs. ‘fair Ophelia)

Question 21

Laertes angry at the King/reaction to father’s death

Answer 21

O thou vile king, give me my father!
To hell allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil

Question 22

Claudius manipulates Laertes

Answer 22

What would you undertake to show yourself your father’s son deed more than in words?

Question 23

Hamlet’s old life and apology quote

Answer 23

Claudius “has thrown out his angle for my proper life”
I am sorry, good Horatio; that to Laertes I forgot myself

Question 24

Gertrude drinks

Answer 24

Gertrude do not drink!
I will, my lord
The drink! O my dear Hamlet! The drink, the drink! I am piosoned!

Question 25

Laertes dieing words

Answer 25

The king’s to blame
+ L quote to include “I am justly kill’d with my own treachery”

Question 26

Hamlet quickly murders Claudius
= some morals left

Answer 26

[he wounds the king] … drink off this poison

Question 27

Inevitability of the play + Hamlet realises his fate

Answer 27

The time is out of joint
O cursed spite! That ever I was born to set it right

heaven hath pleased it so, To punish me with this and this with me

Foul deeds will rise [1:2 so early on foreshadowing]

Question 28

Hamlet’s death foreshadowed quotes

Answer 28

“to die — to sleep” –> 3:1 ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy
“for in that sleep of death dreams may come”
“were it not that I have bad dreams” = ‘O God, I could be bound in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, we’re it not that I have bad dreams”
“— the rest is silence”
= accomplished his long awaited task so can be at peace

Question 29

Comedic quote

Answer 29

What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?
The houses that he makes last till doomsday.
— The comedian Billy Crystal as a gravedigger in 1996 KB

Question 30

Hamlet loved Opehlia

Answer 30

‘forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.’

I loved her vs. ‘Get thee to a nunnery’

Question 31

Performance quotes

Answer 31

Seems, madam? Nay, it is, I know, not seems
To catch the conscience of the King
Ophelia’s reaction to madness = O what a noble mind is here overthrown
Kate Winslet in KB’s ‘96 ‘Hamlet’ carries a camera = appearance vs. reality
Hamlet’s madness seen by Ophelia = no hat upon his head, his stockings fouled

Question 32

Gertrude’s description
by Hamlet Snr [vs. Caudius who tempted her]

Answer 32

Radiant angel
leave her to heaven
vs. Serpant that did sting thy father’s life
‘Adulterate beast’ ‘wicked’
vs. Hamlet states towards his mother - ‘frailty, thy name is woman! … married. O most wicked speed.’

Question 33

Hamlet emotive/depressive quotes + comparison to Fortinbras

Answer 33

I have of late … lost all my mirth
Describes Fortinbras as having ‘divine ambition’ = fights to claim land in Poland for honour — prompts Hamlet to act = ‘from this time forth my thoughts be bloody’