significant character quotes

Question 1

how does claudius describe the memory of his brothers death

Answer 1

the memory be green

Question 2

what does claudius say insinuating that they should look happily to the future but still mourn the king

Answer 2

with one auspicious and one dropping eye

Question 3

how does cluadious describe hamlets grieving as stubbornness

Answer 3

to persevere in obstinate condolement is a course of impious stubborness

Question 4

what comparison does hamlet use to compare claudius to his brother

Answer 4

my fathers brother but no more like my father than i to hercules

Question 5

how does hamlet compare claudius kingship to the old king

Answer 5

so excellent a king that was to this hyperion to a satry

Question 6

what quote shows the reveal of how the king died

Answer 6

a serpent stung me.. the serpent that did sting thy fathers life now wears his crown

Question 7

what pair of quotes reveals the ghost was right

Answer 7

the plays the thing wherein ill catch the conscience of the king

the king rises

Question 8

what quote shows cluadius’ feeling of guilt

Answer 8

this cursed hand were thicker than itself with brother blood, is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens to wash it white as snow

Question 9

what quote shows claudius has no intention to repent

Answer 9

‘forgive me my foul murder’? that cannot be since im still possessed of those effects for which i did the murder

Question 10

how does hamlet describe claudius to gertrude trying to get her to see clearly

Answer 10

here is your husband like a mildewed ear blasting his wholesome brother. have you eyes?

Question 11

what quote shows hamlets torn soul

Answer 11

my soul is full of discord and dismay

Question 12

how does gertrude tell hamlet to not mourn so much

Answer 12

good hamlet cast thy nighted colour off… all that lives must die

Question 13

what quote shows gertrudes knowledge of hamlet as she correctly guesses whats wrong (and is then dismissed by the men in the room)

Answer 13

i doubt it is no other but the main: his fathers death and our o’erhasty marriage

Question 14

how is gertrude descrubed by claudius

Answer 14

sweet gertrude

Question 15

what quote shows gertudes role as a woman

Answer 15

i shall obey you

Question 16

what quote shows gertrudes realisation of what shes been a part of

Answer 16

oh hamlet speak no more. thou turn’st my eyes into my very soul and there i see such black and grained spots

Question 17

how is gertrude described in relation to claudius

Answer 17

shes so conjunctive to my life and soul that as the star moves not but in his sphere i could not but by her

Question 18

how does ophelia respond to laertes advice

Answer 18

do not as some ungracious pastors do show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whiles like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads

Question 19

how does hamlet address ophelia

Answer 19

the fair ophelia. – nymph in thy orisons be all my sins remembered

Question 20

what does hamlet say to ophelia telling her either to stop whoring around or to not give herself to anyone if it cannot be him

Answer 20

get thee to a nunnery (repeated thrice in his speech)

Question 21

what does hamlet say insinuating ophelia will not be able to escape misrepresentation and false rumours that will ruin her no matter how good she is

Answer 21

be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny

Question 22

how is ohelias madness described

Answer 22

poor ophelia divided from herself and her fair judgment

Question 23

how does gertrude describe ophelias death

Answer 23

long it could not be till that her garments, heavy with thier drink, pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay to muddy death

Question 24

how do we know ophelias death was suicide

Answer 24

she drowned herself wittingly

Question 25

what quote shows ophelias favour despite her death

Answer 25

shards, flints, and pebbles should be thrown on her. yet here she is allowed her virgin crants

Question 26

how does laertes pay his respects

Answer 26

lay her i'th'earth and from her fair and unpolluted flesh may violets spring

Question 27

what advice is laertes given by his dad

Answer 27

give every man thy ear but few thy voice; take each mans censure but reserve thy judgment

Question 28

how is laertes described by claudius

Answer 28

why now you speak like a good child and a true gentleman

Question 29

what quote shows laertes is thoughtful and not rash

Answer 29

but my revenge will come

Question 30

how does laertes react to ophelias death showing his grief and respect

Answer 30

too much of water hast thou poor ophelia and therefore i forbid my tears

Question 31

how does hamlet tell laertes he'll accentuate his qualities

Answer 31

ill be your foil laertes. in mine ignorance your skill shall like a star i'th'darkest night stick fiery off indeed

Question 32

what quote shows laertes has been caught in his own trap

Answer 32

why as a woodcock to mine own springe i am justly killed with mine own treachery

Question 33

how does laertes react to the kings death

Answer 33

he is justly served it is a poison tempered by himself

Question 34

what does polonius say to show his belief that falsehoods will encourage others to tell the truth - fishing metaphor

Answer 34

your bait of falshood takes this carp of truth, and thus do we of wisdom and of reach

Question 35

how is polonius described by claudius

Answer 35

as of a man faithful and honourable

Question 36

what quote from hamlet shows he is in a state of mourning

Answer 36

my inky cloak suits of solemn black windy suspiration of forced breath the fruitful river in the eye

Question 37

how does hamlet describe denmark in 4 words

Answer 37

how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable

Question 38

how does hamlet describe denmakr with a garden metaphor

Answer 38

tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed things rank and gross in nature

Question 39

what does laertes say shwoing hamlet doesnt have alot of control

Answer 39

his will is not his own for he himself is subject to his birth

Question 40

what quote shows hamlet is bound by duty to revenge

Answer 40

speak i am bound to hear so art thou to revenge when thou shalt hear

Question 41

what quote shows hamlets devotion to revenge

Answer 41

from the table of my memory i shall wipe away all trivial and fond records and thy commandment all alon shall live within the book and volume of my brain unmixed with baser matters

Question 42

what quote shows that hamlets madness (at least started out) as an act

Answer 42

to put an antic dispositon on

Question 43

what quote shows hamlets unhappiness at his fate

Answer 43

the time is out of joint: ih cursed spite that ever i was born to set it right

Question 44

what quote shows hamlets state after speaking to the ghost

Answer 44

and with a look so piteous in purport as if he had been loosed out of hell to speak of horrors

Question 45

what quotes from polonius shows that hamlets maddnes is merely an act

Answer 45

though this be madness yet there is method in't how pregnant sometimes his replies are

Question 46

what quote shows hamlet is all bark no bite

Answer 46

must like a whore unpack my heart with words and fall a-cursing like a very drab

Question 47

what quote shows hamlets debate over whether he should end it or continue to live but suffer

Answer 47

whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take up arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them

Question 48

what quote shows hamlets sense of hope for a better life

Answer 48

to die to sleep to sleep perchance to dream. ay theres the rub for in that sleep of death what dreams may come

Question 49

what quote shows that hamlet looks up to those not ruled by passion

Answer 49

give me that man that is not passions slave and i will wear him in my hearts core

Question 50

what interaction between hamlet and ophelia is a dig at gertrude

Answer 50

tis breif my lord as womans love

Question 51

what qoute from gertrude shows only hamlet sees the ghost

Answer 51

alas hes mad..you do bend your eye on vacancy

Question 52

how does gertrude describe hamlets madness

Answer 52

mad as the sea and wind, when both contend which is the mightier

Question 53

what quote from hamlet shows he will only think of revenge

Answer 53

from this time forth my thought be bloody or be nothing worth

Question 54

what quote from hamlet shows his question of how life could be important if we all end up the same in death

Answer 54

dost thou think alexander looked o' this fashion i'th'earth imperious caesar dead and turned to clay might stop a hole to keep the wind away

Question 55

what quote shows hamlets love for ophelia

Answer 55

i loved ophelia; forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum

Question 56

what quote from hamlet shows that he believes his madness is his downfall

Answer 56

his madness is poor hamlets enemy

Question 57

what quote shows hamlet is respected in death

Answer 57

bear hamlet like a soldier...for he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royal

Question 58

What quote shows Claudius asking for hamlet to be spied on

Answer 58

And to gather so much as from occasion you may glean