English Lit Hamlet 27+

Question 1

Hamlet
Family
Said to Polonius
Phrase is inturpreted to relate to Polonius’ relationship with ophelia

Answer 1

‘Fishmonger’

Question 2

Hamlet
Madness and melancholia
Responsibility and freedom
Hamlet feels trapped

Answer 2

‘Denmarks a prison’

Question 3

Hamlet
Said to ophelia
Gender

Answer 3

‘Get thee to a nunnery’

Question 4

Claudius
Said to hamlet when hamlet is sad about his fathers death
Gender

Answer 4

‘Tis unmanly greif’

Question 5

Hamlet
Acting and theatre
‘Clowns speak…’

Answer 5

‘Clowns speak no more than is set down for them’

Question 6

Hamlet
Said when about to kill Claudius
Revenge in relation to honour and justice. Responsibility and freedom
‘Oh, this…’

Answer 6

‘Oh, this is hire and salary, not revenge’

Question 7

Hamlet
Revenge. About play
‘To show virtue her…’

Answer 7

‘To show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image’

Question 8

Claudius saying to Gertrude about hamlet when they’re alone

Appearance vs reality

Answer 8

‘Your sons distemper’

Question 9

Hamlet about the play and Claudius

‘The plays the thing […] …’

Answer 9

‘The plays the thing […] wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King’

Question 10

Hamlet
Suicide and religion
Madness and melancholia
‘His cannon…’

Answer 10

‘His cannon ‘faints self-slaughter! O God! O God!’

Question 11

Claudius
Madness and melancholia
Revenge
‘My stronger guilt…’

Answer 11

‘My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent’

Question 12

Hamlet
Death
In his to be or not to be solique
Madness and melancholia

Answer 12

‘To die to sleep’

Question 13

Hamlet 
Death 
In the to be or not to be solique 
Madness and melancholia 
'For in that sleep of...'

Answer 13

‘For I that sleep of death what dreams may come’

Question 14

Hamlet
Madness and melancholia
‘I am but mad…’

Answer 14

‘I am but mad north-north west, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw’

Question 15

Claudius
On hamlet. Wanting him to leave
Madness and melancholia
‘Madness in great ones…’

Answer 15

‘Madness in great ones shall my unwatched go’

Question 16

Hamlet on ghost intentions
Appearance vs reality
‘A Spirit of…’

Answer 16

‘A Spirit of health or goblin damned’

Question 17

Hamlet 
On ophelia and his view of her
Gender 
How women are seen in the patriarchal 
Society

Answer 17

‘The fair ophelia’

Question 18

Claudius
On about what he has gained from his murder
Family
‘My crown…’

Answer 18

‘My crown, mine own ambition and my queen’

Question 19

Hamlet talking about his mother
Family
‘I shall speak daggers…’

Answer 19

‘I shall speak daggers to her, but I will use none’

Question 20

Hamlet
Madness and melancholia
‘Together with all forms…’

Answer 20

‘Together with all forms, moods,shapes of grief’

Question 21

Ophelia to her father
Gender
‘I obey…’

Answer 21

‘I obey my lord’

Question 22

Hamlet questioning himself and motive for his revenge
Responsibility and freedom
‘Am I…’

Answer 22

‘Am I a coward’

Question 23

Hamlet
Madness and melancholia
Sigh of depression
‘Into my…’

Answer 23

‘Into my grave?’

Question 24

Leatres said to ophelia
Family
‘Best safety…’

Answer 24

‘Best safety lies in fear’

Question 25

Hamlet Revenge etc Acting and theatre 'Twere the mirror...'

Answer 25

'Twere the mirror up to nature'

Question 26

Hamlet Madness and melancholia Said in his first solique 'Weary, stale ...'

Answer 26

'Weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,

Question 27

Hamlet about Claudius being a lot like family to him Family ' a little more...'

Answer 27

'A little more kin and less than kind'

Question 28

Hamlet Madness Appearance vs reality Said to horatio

Answer 28

'I must be idle'