Hamlet quotes

Question 1

Claudius asks Gertrude

Answer 1

where is your son?

Question 2

Claudius fears the murder of Polonius will be

Answer 2

laid to us

Question 3

Hamlet digestion

Answer 3

progress through the guts of a beggar

Question 4

Claudius’ mocking machiavellianism

Answer 4

So is it then know’st our purposes

Question 5

Claudius says hamlet is

Answer 5

like the hectic in my blood

Question 6

Hamlet’s ironic resolution

Answer 6

‘From this time forth//My thoughts will be bloody or be nothing worth’ Ironic diction of thoughts again

Question 7

Ophelia gaining authentic voice through madness?

Answer 7

Before you tumbled me//You promised me to wed

Question 8

Laertes = tragic hero - man of action

Answer 8

‘Let come what comes, only I’ll be revenged’
‘I dare damnation’ vs ‘To be, or not to be’

Question 9

Hamlet’s letter - action?

Answer 9

’ in the grapple I boarded them.’ ‘repair thou to me with as much speed//as thou wouldst fly death.’

Question 10

Claudius manipulating Laertes

Answer 10

Laertes, was your father dear to you?//Or are you like the painting of sorrow//A face without a heart?

Question 11

Hamlet’s misogyny about makeup

Answer 11

‘Now//get you to my lady’s table and tell her,//let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she//must come’ - dramatic irony, as Ophelia is dead
‘God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another’