Politics quotes

Question 1

Barnardo: “Long live..

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the king!” (1.1)

Question 2

“Who is there? Friends to this ground..

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and liegemen to the Dane” (1.1)

Question 3

“thou art a scholar..

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speak to it Horatio” (1.1)

Question 4

Horatio: “this bodes some strange

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eruption to our state” (1.1)

Question 5

Horatio: “valiant

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Hamlet” (1.1)

Question 6

“this spirit, dumb to us, will

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speak to [Hamlet]” (1.1)

Question 7

Claudius: “our dear

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brother’s death” (1.2)

Question 8

Public mourning: “our

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whole kingdom” (1.2)

Question 9

C: “you are the most

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immediate to our throne” (1.2)

Question 10

OKH was a “goodly

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King” according to Horatio in 1.2

Question 11

The Ghost goes “slow and

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stately” (1.2)

Question 12

L warns O of Hamlet because he is

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“the head” of the “whole state”

Question 13

Polonius’s “precepts” to Laertes in 1.3

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“give every man thy ear, but few thy voice”
“neither a borrower nor a lender be”

Question 14

“the serpent that did

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sting thy father’s life now wears his crown” (1.5)

Question 15

Rozencrantz - “sovereign power” “dread pleasures more into..

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command than entreaty”

Question 16

the “ambassadors” from Norway: “he sent out o suppress

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his nephew’s levies” (2.2)

Question 17

P: “Lord Hamlet is a prince out

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of thy star. This must not be” (2.2) - response to Ophelia’s love

Question 18

Rozencrantz - “The world’s grown

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honest” (2.2)

Question 19

“denmark is a

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prison” (2.2)

Question 20

“here sweet lord,

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at your service” (3.2) - Horatio to Hamlet

Question 21

“massy wheel”

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3.3 - metaphor where the King is the wheel and people are the spokes. Common medieval concept - body politic

Question 22

“my crown, mine own

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ambition, and my queen” (3.3)

Question 23

“you are the queen,

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your husband’s brother’s wife, and would it were not so, you are my mother” (3.4)

Question 24

“my two schoolfellows, whom

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I will trust as I will adders fanged” (3.4)

Question 25

“there’s such divinity

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doth hedge a king”

Question 26

“in your revenge, you will draw

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both friend and foe, winner and loser?” (4.5) - L’s revenge means killing everyone

Question 27

“we will our kingdom give our

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crown, our life and all that we call ours” (4.5) - if C is guilty, he will give up his life and kingdom

Question 28

C: “I loved your father,

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and we love ourself” (4.7)

Question 29

C: “will you be ruled by me?”

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L: “Ay my lord, so you will not o’errule me to a peace”

Question 30

Gravediggers - “se offendendo”

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meant “se defendendo” (in self-defence) - 5.1

Question 31

“this is I,

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Hamlet the Dane” (5.1)

Question 32

“So Rozencrantz and Guildenstern

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go to’t” “they are not near my conscience” 5.2

Question 33

“I’ll be your

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foil Laertes” 5.2

Question 34

H: “come on sir”

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L: “come my lord” (5.2)

Question 35

Horatio “I am more an antique

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roman than a dane” (5.2)

Question 36

Hamlet “tell my

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story” (5.2)

Question 37

Horatio - “goodnight

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sweet prince” 5.2