Hamlet Quotes

Question 1

1.2
- t t
- u g
- h –> s
- 月
- i s

Answer 1

banquet #1

• too too solid flesh
• unweeded garden
• hyperion to a satyr
• within a month
• incestuous sheets

Question 2

1.4
- Angels
- h or h
- k, f rd
- pin
- cliff / reason

Answer 2

Ghost beckons H

• angels and ministers of grace defend us
• heaven or blasts from hell
• king, father royal dane
• i do not set my life at a pin’s fee
• summit of cliff / deprive your soveriegnty of reason

Question 3

1.5 ghost
- crimes
- foul
- m a t o l
- revenge
- f w

Answer 3

Ghost speaks to H

• foul crimes… burnt and purged away
• foul and most unnatural murder
• meditation and thoughts of love
• may sweep to my revenge
• fat weed…

Question 4

1.5 #2

• r t
• d g
• t f r
• b + v
• [SD]
• time

Answer 4

• remember thee
• distracted globe
• trivial fond records
• book and volume of my brain
• [writing]
• time is out of joint

Question 5

2.2
- insult
- method

Answer 5

Mad talk with P
- fishmonger
- there is method in’t

Question 6

2.2
- fortune
- d i a p
- eye

Answer 6

R+G
- she is a strumpet
- Denmark’s a prison
- then I have an eye of you

Question 7

2.2
- f a p c o v
- work
- dust

Answer 7

2.2 meditation
- foul and pestilent congregation of vapours
- what a piece of work is a man
- what is this quintessence of dust

Question 8

2.2

• decieved
• hawk
• Hints to P knows about O

Answer 8

2.2 Madness

• my uncle-father and aunt-mother are decieved
• I know a hawk from a handsaw
• O Jeptha, judge of Israel, what a treasure hast thou

Question 9

2.2
- general
- h m
- chronicles

Answer 9

2.2 importance of theatre after madness to P
- twas caviary to the general
- honest method
- abstract and brief chronicles of the time

Question 10

2.2
- b a h p
- f, m, d, s

Answer 10

2.2 H’s Pyrrhus and Priam
- black as his purpose
- fathers, mother, daughters, sons

Question 11

2.2
- d n
- s f

Answer 11

2.2 Pyrrhus and Priam
- did nothing
- strumpet fortune

Question 12

2.2 #3
- r a p s a i
- H t h o h t h
- drown
- yet…
- a i a c?
- p o m b
- w d m t?

Answer 12

2.2 #3 (1st half)
- O what a rogue and peasant slave am I
- What’s Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba
- He would drown the stage with tears
- Yet, I a dull and muddy-mettled rascal
- Am I a coward?
- Plucks of my beard
- Who does me this?

Question 13

2.2 #3
- r, t, l, k v
- h and h
- whore
- looks
- catch

Answer 13

2.2 #3 (2nd half)
- remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain
- prompted to revenge by heaven and hell
- like a whore unpack my heart with words
- I’ll observe his looks
- the play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king

Question 14

3.1 #4
- t b o n t b
- s s a a
- b o e t
- sleep
- time

Answer 14

3.1 #4 after they all speculate about H’s madness
- to be or not to be
- suffer the sling and arrows
- by opposing end them
- to die - to sleep, to sleep perchance to dream
- whips and scorns of time

Question 15

3.1 #4
- bare
- coward
- e o g p a m
- action

Answer 15

3.1 #4
- he himself might make a quietus with his bare bodkin
- conscience does make cowards of us all
- enterprises of great pitch and moment
- lose the name of action

Question 16

3.1
- honest and fair
- stock
- love
- nun

Answer 16

3.1 (nunnery scene after #4)

• If you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty
• virtue cannot so innoculate our old stock
• I did love you once … I loved you not
• Get thee to a nunnery

Question 17

3.2
- o-H H
- chiasmus
- mirror

Answer 17

3.2 (after nunnery tell actors how to act)
- out-Herod’s Herod
- suit the action to the word and the word to the action
- hold as t’were a mirror up to nature

Question 18

3.2 (r friendship)
- equal
- commedled
- unkennel
- vulcan

Answer 18

tells Horatio plan after telling actors how to act
- fortune’s buffets and rewards hast tane with equal thanks
- whose blood and judgement are so well commedled
- if his occulted guilt do not itself unkennel in one speech, it is a damned ghost that we have seen
- my imaginations are as foul as vulcan stithy

Question 19

3.2 (P)
- Caesar

Answer 19

Talk to P after telling H plan
- I did enact Julius Caesar. I was killed in the capital. Brutus killed me

Question 20

3.2 (O)
- country
- brief

Answer 20

• do you think I meant country matters
• tis brief my lord as woman’s love

Question 21

3.2 (play)
- woos
- touches
- light

Answer 21

the mousetrap
- [the poisoner woos the queen with gifts]
- we have free souls, it touches us not
- give me some light. Away!

Question 22

3.2
- wds?
- pipe

Answer 22

talks with R+G after mousetrap
- Marvellous distempered –> with drink sir?
- do you think I’m easier to be played on than a pipe?

Question 23

3.2
- cloud

Answer 23

Messes with P after R+G
- Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in the shape of a camel?

Question 24

(#5)
- blood
- soft
- heart
- daggers

Answer 24

3.2 after messing with P is angry after mousetrap
- now i could drink hot blood
- soft, you now to my mother
- O heart, lose not they nature; let not ever the soul of Nero enter this bosom
- O will speak daggers to her but use none

Question 25

3.3 - passage - link to pyrrus and priam - bed - fly

Answer 25

prayer scene after his #5 - when he is fit and seasoned for passage? - no - in the incestuous pleasures of his bed - my words fly up, my thoughts remain below, words without thoughts never to heaven go

Question 26

3.4 (P) - offended - syntax - bad, good

Answer 26

Killing Polonius in closet scene - mother you have my father much offended - you're husband's brother's wife - a bloody deed? Almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry his brother

Question 27

3.4 (G) - assurance - ear - youth - b a g s - sweat - daggers

Answer 27

Criticises Gertrude after killing polonius - to give the world assurance of a man/this was your husband - like a mildewed ear blasting his wholesome brother - rebellious hell, if thou canst mutine in a matron's bones, to flaming youth let virtue be wax - black and grained spots - rank sweat of an enseamed bed stewed in corruption - these words like daggers enter my ears

Question 28

3.4 (ghost) - b p - perchance - coinage

Answer 28

- blunted purpose - tears perchance for blood - this is the very coinage of your brain

Question 29

3.4 (after ghost) - ulcerous place - compost - breathe

Answer 29

admits antic disposition - skin and film the ulcerous place while rank corruption, mining all within, infects unseen - do not spread the compost on the weeds to make them ranker - I have no life to breathe what thou hast said to me

Question 30

4.2

Answer 30

Mess with R&G after killing P - the body is with the king but the king is not with the body

Question 31

4.3 - guts - A H - farewell - hectic

Answer 31

C sends H to england - nothing but to show you how a king may go through the guts of a beggar - Ay Hamlet - Farewell dear mother - For like the hectic in my blood he rages

Question 32

4.4 - beast - one part - d a t p - father/mother - worth

Answer 32

Fortinbras army after sent to England - a beast, no more - one part wisdom and ever three parts cowardice - delicate and tender prince - a father kill, a mother stained - oh from this time forth my thoughts be bloody or nothing worth

Question 33

5.1 (Clowns) - salvation - gentlewoman

Answer 33

- is she to be buried in a Christian burial, when she wilfully seeks her own salvation - If this had not been a gentlewoman, she should not have been buried in a Christian burial

Question 34

5.1 (Yorick) - quiddities - mad - exclamation - dane - wart

Answer 34

after clown class commentary - where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? - there the men are mad as he - alas poor Yorick! - This is I, Hamlet the Dane - Make Ossa like a wart