Madness quotes

Question 1

Hamlet on his wishes for death

Answer 1

“O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt,

Thaw and resolve itself into a dew,”

Question 2

Hamlet on faking madness

Answer 2

“To put an antic disposition on”

Question 3

Ophelia on Hamlet acting mad

Answer 3

“Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other…
As if he had been loosèd out of hell
To speak of horrors”

Question 4

Hamlet on saying he still has sense to rosencrants and guildenstern

Answer 4

“I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is

southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.”

Question 5

Gertrude on Hamlet’s madness

Answer 5

“Mad as the sea and wind when both contend

Which is the mightier.”

Question 6

Claudius on Ophelia’s madness

Answer 6

“Divided from herself and her fair judgment”