Quotes Act (II) Scene (ii)

Question 1

Claudius reveals the extent of hamlets changed character

Answer 1

Hamlet’s transformation; so I call it, Since nor the exterior nor the inward man resembles that it was

Question 2

Gertrude reveals depth and perhaps guilt

Answer 2

I doubt it is no other but the main; his father’s death and our o’erhasty marriage

Question 3

Polonium reveals the depth of his paternal compassion

Answer 3

At such a time I’ll lose my daughter to him

Question 4

Hamlet feels slightly cynical

Answer 4

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be the one picked out of ten thousand

Question 5

Hamlet’s despair is laid laid bare to his undeserving friends

Answer 5

I have of late… Lost all my mirth… The earth seems to me a sterile promontory

Question 6

Hamlet reveals the extent of his madness

Answer 6

I am but mad north - north west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw

Question 7

Hamlet is distraught by the intensity of the players passion

Answer 7

What a rogue and peasant slave am I

Question 8

The mousetrap is about to be set

Answer 8

The plays the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King