Revenge

Question 1

Parallel of Fortinbras as an avenging son in Act1, Scene 1

Answer 1

‘young Fortinbras, of unimprovèd mettle hot and full’

Question 2

Act 4, Scene 7 CLAUDIUS & LAETRES - irony - repition of ghost / Claudius as ghost? Laertes as far more conviction than hamlet

Answer 2

“What would you undertake to show yourself in deed your father’s son, more than in words?” “To cut his throat i’th’church.” ‘No place, indeed, should murder sanctuaries; Revenge should have no bounds”

Question 3

Duality of ghost & revenge in act 2, scene 2

Answer 3

‘Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell’

Question 4

a fourth avenging son in Pyrrhus’s description, 2.2

Answer 4

‘The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms, black as his purpose, did the night resemble

Question 5

1.5 Unsuitability of Hamlet to revenge hero

Answer 5

‘O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right.’

REPEATED IN 3.4 ‘Heaven hath pleased it so to punish me with this’

Question 6

Ghost’s plea 1.5

Answer 6

‘foul crimes…Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder…foul, strange and unnatural’

Question 7

Laetres as avenging son 4.5

Answer 7

‘Young Laertes in a riotous haste…O thou vile king…to hell allegiance, vows to the blackest devil, conscience and grace to the profounder pit, i dare damnation…ill be revenged most thoroughly for my father’

Question 8

CLAUIUDS & Laertes about rvenge 4.7

Answer 8

What would you undertake to show yourself in deed your father’s son, more than in words?” “To cut his throat i’th’church.” ‘No place, indeed, should murder sanctuaries; Revenge should have no bounds”