Relationships

Question 1

HAMLET demonstrating loyalty to and friendship with HORATIO, in Act 1, Scene 2

Answer 1

‘I would not hear your enemy say so, nor shall you do my ear that violence’

Question 2

LAERTES about HAMLET’S relationship with OPHELIA in Act 1, Scene 3

Answer 2

‘Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, the perfume and suppliantce of a minute’

Question 3

Hamlet welcoming R&G 2.2

Answer 3

‘My excellent good friends…the rights of our fllowship, the consonancy of our youth, the obligation of our ever-preserved love’

ALL THE WAY TO ‘‘My two schoolfellows whom I will trust as I will adders fanged’ in 3.4

Question 4

Gertrude about Hamlet’s initial relationship with R&G 2.2

Answer 4

‘Two men there is not living to whom he more adheres’

Question 5

Hamlet’s last look of Ophelia 2.1

Answer 5

“ Long stayed he so… He raised a sigh so piteous, and profound, as it did seem to shatter all his bulk, and end his being…to the last bender their light on me”

Question 6

Hamlet & Ophelia relationship insight before ‘nunnery’ 3.1

Answer 6

’the fair Ophelia - Nymph…words of so sweet breath composed as made the things more rich. Their perfumes lost…rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind’

Question 7

Sense of what has been lost in hamlets madness by Ophelia 3.1

Answer 7

‘Oh what a nobel mind is here o’erthrown! The coutrier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s, eye, tongue, sword…[Hamlet’s] nobel and most sovereign reason’

Question 8

Hamlet to Horatio besties 3.2

Answer 8

For what advancement may i hope from thee, that no revenue hast but thy good spirit…since my dear soul was mistress of her choice and could of men distinguish her election, sh’ath seale thee for herself…[you] are not a pipe for fortune’s finger to sound what stop she please’