Quotes Act (III) Scene (i)

Question 1

Claudius suddenly becomes a little more human and a lot guiltier

Answer 1

How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience! O heavy burden !

Question 2

Hamlet ponders the nature of existence

Answer 2

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune… A sea of troubles

Question 3

Hamlet recognises the essential fear at the core of our existence

Answer 3

But that dread of something after death the undiscovered country

Question 4

Hamlet’s dismissal of ophelia reflects his disillusionment with the world

Answer 4

Get thee to a nunnery

Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?

Question 5

Hamlets painful self-awareness

Answer 5

Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all

Question 6

Claudius is now sure hamlet is great threat to him

Answer 6

There’s something in his soul, o’er which his melancholy sits on brood and I do doubt the hatch and the disclose will be some danger

Question 7

Claudius will get rid of Hamlet

Answer 7

He shall with speed to England for the demand of our neglected tribute