Relationships - Hamlet Quotes

Question 1

Revenge - Ghost 1:5

Answer 1

‘revenge this foul and most unnatural murder’

Question 2

Malevolent spirit? - Horatio 1:4

Answer 2

‘what if it tempt you toward the flood my Lord?’

Question 3

Evil brother - Ghost 1:5

Answer 3

‘the serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown’

Question 4

Manipulation to take revenge - Ghost 1:5

Answer 4

‘if thou hast nature in thee, bear it not’

Question 5

Honour, sexuality, revenge - Ghost 1:5

Answer 5

‘let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned incest’

Question 6

Opinion of his father vs Claudius - Hamlet 1:2

Answer 6

‘so excellent a King, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr’

Question 7

Disgusted by his mother - Hamlet 1:2

Answer 7

‘with such dexterity to incestuous sheets’

Question 8

Shaming with reference to Old Hamlet - Hamlet 3:4

Answer 8

‘you have my father much offended’

Question 9

Horrible sexual imagery - Hamlet 3:4

Answer 9

‘in the rank sweat of an enseamed (greasy) bed… honeying and making love’

Question 10

Emotional connection to Hamlet - Gertrude 3:4

Answer 10

‘thou has cleft my heart in twain’

Question 11

Loyalty to her son - Gertrude 3:4

Answer 11

‘if words be made of breath and breath of life, I have no life to breathe what thou has said to me’

Question 12

Before her poisoning - Gertrude 5:2

Answer 12

‘The Queen carouses to thy fortune Hamlet’

Question 13

Obedience - Ophelia 1:3

Answer 13

‘I shall obey, my Lord’

Question 14

Flower representing faithfulness - Ophelia 4:5

Answer 14

‘I would give you some violets, but they wither’d all when my father died’

Question 15

Effect of his death on her sanity - Laertes 4:5

Answer 15

‘is’t possible a young maid’s wits should be as mortal as an old man’s life?’

Question 16

Grief - Claudius 4:5

Answer 16

‘O this is the poison of deep grief, it springs all from her father’s death’

Question 17

Control and interference over his daughter - Polonius 3:1

Answer 17

‘Ophelia, walk you here’

Question 18

Praising Horatio for his stability and loyalty - Hamlet 3:2

Answer 18

‘not a pipe for Fortune’s finger to sound what stop she please’

Question 19

Description of Horatio - Hamlet 3:2

Answer 19

‘not passion’s slave’

Question 20

Strength of friendship - Hamlet 3:2

Answer 20

‘I will wear him in my heart’s core, ay in my heart of heart, as I do thee’

Question 21

His soul in finding friendship with Horatio - Hamlet 3:2

Answer 21

‘her election hath sealed thee for herself’

Question 22

Her remaining high opinion of Hamlet and the authenticity of his madness - Ophelia 3:1

Answer 22

‘O, what a noble mind is here o’er-thrown!’

Question 23

Position of Hamlet in the court - Ophelia 3:1

Answer 23

‘expectancy and rose of the fair state’

Question 24

Ophelia following Hamlet’s insults and display of madness - Ophelia 3:1

Answer 24

‘most deject and wretched’

Question 25

Gertrude's actions have made her marriage vows meaningless - Hamlet 3:4

Answer 25

'makes marriage-vows as false as dicers' oaths [...] a rhapsody of words'

Question 26

Description of the images of the 2 brothers - Hamlet 3:4

Answer 26

'the counterfeit presentment'

Question 27

View of his father - Hamlet 3:4

Answer 27

'what grace was seated on his brow [...] where every god did seem to set his seal'

Question 28

View of Claudius - Hamlet 3:4

Answer 28

'like a mildew'd ear'

Question 29

Strange comment about Gertrude's age and sexuality - Hamlet 3:4

Answer 29

'at your age the heyday in the blood is tame'

Question 30

Metaphor of Gertrude as a feeding goat or something - Hamlet 3:4

Answer 30

'could you on this fair mountain leave to feed and batten on this moor?'

Question 31

Consequence of Gertrude's marriage morally - Hamlet 3:4

Answer 31

'calls virtue a hypocrite'

Question 32

His father's love for his mother - Hamlet 1:2

Answer 32

'he might not beteem the winds of heaven visit her face too roughly'

Question 33

His mother's lack of mourning and respect for his father - Hamlet 1:2

Answer 33

'a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourned longer'

Question 34

Haste in marriage - Hamlet 1:2

Answer 34

'wicked speed'