Quotes act (I) scene (ii)

Question 1

Claudius tells us that he also feels grief stricken after the death of his brother

Answer 1

Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death the memory may be green

Question 2

Claudius announces that he has married Gertrude

Answer 2

Our sometime sister, now our Queen

Question 3

Claudius reveals the trust he places in Polonius

Answer 3

The head is not more native to the heard, the hand more instrumental to the mouth, than is the throne of Denmark to thy Father

Question 4

The first exchange between the king and his Nephew reveals tension (Claudius and Hamlet speak)

Answer 4

Cl: But now my cousin Hamlet and my son..
Ha: A little more than kin and less than kind

Question 5

Gertrude tells her son that the time for mourning has passed

Answer 5

Do not forever with thy veiled lids seek for thy noble father in the dust

Question 6

Hamlet’s biting response to his mother reveals deep despair and anger

Answer 6

Seems, Madam! Nay I know not seems…
But I have that within which passeth slow;
These are but the trapping and the suits of woe

Question 7

Claudius tells hamlet that he is taking his morning too far and that he has a vulnerable heart and an ignorant and weak mind

Answer 7

A heart unfortified, a mind impatient, an understanding simple and unschooled