Act 4 Scene 4

Question 1

What does the captain say that Norway is going to do?

Answer 1

“We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in no profit but the name”

Question 2

How does Hamlet react in his soliloquy to Fortinbras’ plan? (4 - 5 quotes)

Answer 2

“How all occasions do inform against me and spur my dull revenge! What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.”
“I do not know why yet I live to say ‘This thing’s to do, sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means to do’t.”
“How stand I then, that have a father killed, a mother stained, excitements of my reason and my blood, and let all sleep,, while to my shame I see the imminent death of twenty thousand men… for a plot, whereon the numbers cannot try the cause”
“O from this time forth, my thought be bloody, or be nothing worth.