Hamlet Quotes Act 1 Scene 1 - Act 2 Scene 2

Question 1

Act 1 scene 1 - Opens on battlements and in darkness

Answer 1

threat of war is apparent and immanent. The ghost appears. They discuss the fight between Old Hamlet and Fortinbras and the ghosts validity

Question 2

Act 1 Scene 1 quotes - “tis bitter cold and I am sick at heart” “speak speak I charge thee speak”

Answer 2

“ill cross it though it blast me” “the cock crows (sd)” “dared to combat in which our valiant hamlet… did slay Fortinbras”

Question 3

Act 1 Scene 2 - what does Claudius’ speech address Death of brother

Answer 3

marriage to Gertrude

Question 4

Act 1 Scene 2 - Claudius addresses the court

Answer 4

Gertrude wants hamlet to stop grieving

Question 5

Act 1 Scene 2 - Claudius’ speech “that we with wisest sorrow think on him together with remeberance of ourselves”

Answer 5

“our sometimes sister now our queen” “taken to wife” “and we dismatch you good Cornelius” “Good hamlet cast thy knighted colour off and let thine eye look like a friend to Denmark”

Question 6

Hamlet (alone) reveals his suicidal state and fact he is appalled by marriage of his mother to his uncle.

Question 7

Act 1 Scene 2 - “ O that this too too sailed flesh would melt” 205 “but two months dead” “ Frailty thy name is Woman” “ She should hand on him as if increase of appetite” 207 “She married. O most wicked speed” 208 “ incestuous sheets” 209

Question 9

Horatio tells Hamlet abt the Ghost – Act 1 scene 2 - “my lord I came to see your fathers funeral” 210 “ the funeral baked meats did coldly furninsh forth the marriage tables” 211 “My lord

Answer 9

I think I saw him yesternight” 212

Question 11

Act 1 Scene 3 Berating Ophelia scene if you need to find things of her as a victim

Question 12

Act 1 Scene 3 Laertes encourages Ophelia not to take Hamlet’s wooing seriously

Answer 12

Polonius gives advice to Laertes and then instructs Ophelia to stay away from Hamlet.

Question 13

Act 1 Scene 3 quotes - “ the weigh what loss your honour may sustain”221 “or your chaste treasure open” - “I shall effect of this good lesson keep as watchman to my heart” 223

Answer 13

“give every man thy ear but few thy voice” 225 - Hytner production Ophelia laughing

Question 14

mary I will teach you” “you’ll tender me a fool” “ay fashion you may call it go to go to

Question 15

I do not know my lord, what I should think” “I shall obey my lord

Question 18

Act 1 Scene 4 - Hamlet meets Horatio and Marcellus at night to try and see the ghost for himself.

Question 19

The ghost beckons Hamlet and Hamlet follows.

Question 22

Act 1 Scene 4 quotes- “maxes us traduced and taxed of other nations”“angles and ministers of grace defend us!”“bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell”“a spirit of health or goblin damned”“something is rotten in the state of Denmark”“ill follow thee”

Question 24

Act 1 Scene 5 Ghost tells hamlet how he was murdered

Answer 24

Ghost intructs Hamlet to revenge his murder

Question 25

Act 1 Scene 5 Ghost scene / murder revisited

Question 26

Act 1 Scene 5 "speak I am bound to hear" - "so art thou to revenge when thou shalt hear"

Question 27

burnt and purged away" "freeze thy young blood" "prison house

Answer 27

if thou didst ever thy dear father love" "revenge his foul and most unnatural murder""the serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown" "that incestuous

Question 30

Act 2 Scene 1 Polonius being a bad dad – getting people to spy on Laertes and Ophelia comes in and tells him that hamlet has been rough with her

Question 31

Act 2 Scene 1 – quotes " enter old Polonius""my lord that would dishonour them""I was about to say something! Where did I leave"

Answer 31

" my lord I have been so affrighted" "he took me by the wrist" "shaking of mine arm""come go with me I will go seek the King"

Question 34

Act 2 Scene 2 Chunky scene – Roz and G to spy on Claudius

Answer 34

Polonius tells gert abt Hamlets madness

Question 35

Act 2 Scene 2 "so young days bought up with him" "sure I am two men there is not living to whom he more adheres" - Queen "so draw him on to pleasures and to gather so much as from occasion you may glean" - King "I have found the very cause of Hamlet's lunacy" - Polonius King "your son's distemper" - shift from our son"his father's death and our hasty marriage"" In brief he obeys receives rebuke from Norway" - "against the Polack""thou brevity is the soul of wit" - Pol "I will be brief" - "what is't but to be nothing else but mad" Queen "more matter with less art""who in her duty and obedience hath given me this " - Ophelia "to the celestial and my fouls idol the most beautified Ophelia""which done she took the fruits of my advice""ill loose my daughter to him" then - "enter hamlet""you are a fishmonger"

Question 36

Hamlet " to be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand"

Question 37

"Though this be madness yet there is method in't" - pol

Question 38

When they come on stage he states " my excellent good friends"

Question 39

" is it your own inclining" - Ham

Question 40

"I know that the good King and Queen have sent for you" - Ham

Question 41

"my lord we were sent for" - Guild

Question 42

aunt-mother

Question 43

"history, pastoral, pastoral comical" Claud

Question 45

Priam and Phyruss quotes Act 2 Scene 2 Pyrrhus" Black as purpose" " night resemble" "Blood of fathers" "Coagulate gore" "Did nothing"

Question 46

Priam "old grandsire" "milky head of reverend Priam"

Question 47

The queen "Burst of clamour"

Question 48

Hamlet soliloquy – Act 2 Scene 2 "what a rouge and peasant slave am I" "Had he the motive and that for passion that I have?"

Question 49

Drown the stage with tears

Question 50

I dull and muddy mettled rascal" "can say nothing." "Am I a coward" "but I am pigeon livered and lack gall" "prompted to revenge by heaven and hell" "the spirit I have seen may be a de'il" " Ill catch the conscience of the King