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’