Hamlet Quotes

Question 1

How does Claudius describe Denmark in act 1

Answer 1

“warlike state”

Question 2

How does Marcellus interpret the ghosts’ arrival?

Answer 2

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”

Question 3

How does Claudius describe hamlet after he hath killed polonius

Answer 3

“like the owner of a foul disease,”

Question 4

What are hamlets first words

Answer 4

“[aside] A little more than kin, and less than kind”

Question 5

When hamlet curses his mother and Claudius, what exactly does he say

Answer 5

“O most pernicious woman!” “damned villain!”

Question 6

How does Claudius ridicule hamlets grief

Answer 6

‘‘tis unmanly grief;”

Question 7

When hamlet admits to R+G that he’s put an antic disposition on, what does he say

Answer 7

“my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived”

Question 8

What does hamlet compare a woman’s love to

Answer 8

(Prologue)
“Tis brief, my lord”
“As woman’s love.”

Question 9

What does baptista say to gonzago to console him about her after death plans

Answer 9

“None wed the second but who killed the first.”

Question 10

How does gonzago reply to baptista when she claims she shant remarry

Answer 10

“Our wills and fates do so contrary run”

Question 11

How does Ophelia put laertes in his place

Answer 11

do not be like the one who “recks not his own rede.”

Question 12

How does polonius mock Ophelia x hamlet

Answer 12

“Tender yourself more dearly” Or “you’ll tender me a fool.” talking about hams tenders of affection

Question 13

How do Ophelia and Gertrude obey their men?

Answer 13

“I shall obey”

Question 14

How does hamlet address Ophelia after his 2b speech

Answer 14

“The fair Ophelia.- Nymph, in thy orisons”

Question 15

How does hamlet reprimand Ophelia

Answer 15

“Get thee to a nunnery” 3 times - binary moral absolutism

Question 16

How does Ophelia give in to hamlets reprimanding

Answer 16

O gives in and says I “most deject and wretched”

Question 17

How does hamlet make a sex joke?

Answer 17

“shall I lie in your lap?”
“I think nothing”

Question 18

What does hamlet tell his mother that scares her

Answer 18

“sit you down, you shall not budge.”

Question 19

What is hamlets 2b quote

Answer 19

“To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer” “Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,”

Question 20

What does hamlet believe holds mankind back

Answer 20

“conscience does make cowards of us all,”

Question 21

How does Ophelia challenge hamlet?

Answer 21

“Could beauty (..) have better commerce than with honesty?”

Question 22

How does the queen foreshadow in act 1?

Answer 22

“all that lives must die”

Question 23

What’s hamlets response as Horatio and Marcellus remind him that the ghost may lead him to his death

Answer 23

“I do not set my life at a pin’s fee,”

Question 24

What does hamlet say to polonius when he asks to take leave

Answer 24

that he can’t take anything “except my life, except my life, except my life.” - pathos

Question 25

What does hamlet say immediately after killing polonius

Answer 25

“[drawing] how now! A rat? Dead for a ducat, dead”

Question 26

How does Gertrude confront hamlet after he has killed polonius

Answer 26

“O what a rash and bloody deed is this!”

Question 27

How does hamlet respond to Gertrude’s confrontation after he killed polonius

Answer 27

almost as bad “As kill a King, and marry with his brother.”

Question 28

How did Ophelia die

Answer 28

she “Fell in the weeping brook”

Question 29

How does laertes first claim to want to kill hamlet

Answer 29

“To cut his throat i’ th’ church.”

Question 30

What is laertes plan to kill hamlet?

Answer 30

Poison sword so “if I gall him slightly, It may be death.”

Question 31

How does ghost hamlet tell little hamlet who his killer was?

Answer 31

“The serpent that did sting thy father’s life/ Now wears his crown.”

Question 32

What’s something ghost hamlet says to push little ham to revenge

Answer 32

“Let not the royal bed of Denmark be / A couch for luxury and damned incest.”

Question 33

How does hamlet first self deprecate

Answer 33

“O what a rogue and peasant slave am I!”

Question 34

How does hamlet describe Claudius in his rogue and peasant slave soliloquy

Answer 34

“Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!”

Question 35

How does polonius display sycophantic behaviour

Answer 35

Polonius holds his duty “Both to my God, and to my gracious King.”

Question 36

How does Claudius react when polonius says we sugar over the devil if he’s smiling

Answer 36

In an [Aside] “How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience.”

Question 37

How does Ophelia’s death highlight corruption in the court

Answer 37

clown says if o wasn’t a gentlewoman “she would have been buried out a christian burial.”

Question 38

How does hamlet claim to have treated the ghosts order

Answer 38

“And thy commandment all alone shall live/ Within the book and volume of my brain”

Question 39

What is hamlets idea to catch Claudius in his lies

Answer 39

peasant slave soliloquy “the plays the thing/ Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.”

Question 40

When debating to kill Claudius during prayer why does hamlet back away

Answer 40

“ a villain kills my father, and for that,/I (..)same villain send/ To heaven. “

Question 41

How does hamlet compare himself to young fortinbras

Answer 41

I“.. have a father killed, a mother stained,/ (..) And let all sleep,” whilst they go “Even for an egg-shell.”

Question 42

How does laertes lament his cause

Answer 42

“I a noble father lost,/ A sister driven into desperate terms “

Question 43

When Claudius highlights his need for self predevrvation what does he say to alertes

Answer 43

“I loved your father, and we love ourself,”

Question 44

What does hamlet admit when Ophelia dies

Answer 44

“I loved Ophelia”

Question 45

How does hamlet first decide on deceiving everyone?

Answer 45

Ham will “put an antic disposition on”

Question 46

What is claudius’ first set up to seek why hamlet is mad?

Answer 46

calls r+g to “draw onto him pleasures, and to gather” [intel]

Question 47

What is the second plot to see why hamlet is mad?

Answer 47

“I’ll lose my daughter to him.”

Question 48

What is hamlets plan for horatio during the mouse-trap play

Answer 48

With “thy soul/ Observe mine uncle.”

Question 49

What does hamlet say when lucianus poisons the duke and claudius rises

Answer 49

“What, frighted with false fire!”

Question 50

What does claudius say in his soliloquy

Answer 50

“O my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;” fratricide/regicide

Question 51

How does claudius set up hamlets death ?

Answer 51

Letters commanding “The present death of Hamlet.”

Question 52

How does hamlet first violate Ophelia

Answer 52

“He took me by the wrist, and held me hard;”

Question 53

How does polonius react to hamlets first time harassing Ophelia

Answer 53

“This is the very ecstasy of love,”

Question 54

How does hamlet link his madness to the weather

Answer 54

“I am but mad north-north-west; when the wind is southerly” medieval belief

Question 55

What does hamlet say to Gertrude about his madness

Answer 55

he is “But mad in craft”

Question 56

What does Ophelia sing after she’s gone mad

Answer 56

“before you tumbled me, / You promised me to wed.”

Question 57

How does hamlet make a joke out of polonius’ death

Answer 57

Polonius is at supper “Not where he eats, but where ‘a is eaten” by worms

Question 58

How does the gravedigger troll hamlet

Answer 58

“Whose grave’s this sirrah?” “Mine sir.” [sings]

Question 59

How does hamlet compare Claudius and hamlet to Gertrude

Answer 59

“Hyperion’s curls, the front of Jove himself,” but now “Here is your husband like a mildewed ear