Religion , Honour and Revenge

Question 1

Claudius’ manipulation of Polonius

Answer 1

“what would you undertake,
to show yourself your father’s son in deed
more than in words?”

Question 2

Claudius’ manipulation of Polonius

Answer 2

“No place, indeed , should murder sanctuarize;

Revenge should have no bounds”

Question 3

ghost Hamlet to Hamlet on killing

Answer 3

“Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.”

Question 4

Hamlets want to die but fear of sin

Answer 4

“O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! “

Question 5

Honour held by hamlets late father / loyalty

Answer 5

“He was a man. Take him for all in all,/ I shall not look upon his like again”

Question 6

Laertes’ obligation to seek revenge on his fathers death

Answer 6

“Let come what comes, only I’ll be revenged/ Most thoroughly for my father”

Question 7

Hamlets plan for his play to expose Claudius

Answer 7

“The play’s the thing,

Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king. “

Question 8

Claudius prays , hamlet refrains from killing. An admission

Answer 8

“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below;

Words without thoughts never to heaven go”