Quotes about Family/Freudian tendencies

Question 1

“With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage”

Answer 1

Gertrude and he appear to share a close, almost conspiratorial bond, as he acknowledges her role in the
decision to marry.

Question 2

“A little more than kin, and less than kind” (Hamlet)

Answer 2

bitterness and resentment
His opening line - reveals a lot (complex family dynamics)
pun

Question 3

“So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr” (Hamlet)

Answer 3

mythology continue highlighting
Hamlet’s classical education
Hamlet’s father is a God in contrast to his ugly and lustful uncle who is repulsive and not even a full figure
of a man to him.

Question 4

“frailty, thy name is woman!”

Answer 4

Female Virtue: source of
Hamlet’s depression partly mother.
View of womanhood and female chastity and propriety tainted.
He now no longer trusts women due to his mother’s behaviour.
Regards marriage as scandalous and sees G. as a fallen woman.

Question 5

“O, most wicked speed, to post / With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!”
“Good night—but go not to mine uncle’s bed.”

Answer 5

Quotes in Hamlet that suggest an Oedipal relationship between Hamlet and Queen Gertrude include his lament in act 1, scene.
And his plea in act 3, scene 4
These quotes reflect Hamlet’s obsession with his mother’s sexual relationship with Claudius.