1
Q
Hamlet on his wishes for death
A
“O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew,”
2
Q
Hamlet on faking madness
A
“To put an antic disposition on”
3
Q
Ophelia on Hamlet acting mad
A
“Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other…
As if he had been loosèd out of hell
To speak of horrors”
4
Q
Hamlet on saying he still has sense to rosencrants and guildenstern
A
“I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is
southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.”
5
Q
Gertrude on Hamlet’s madness
A
“Mad as the sea and wind when both contend
Which is the mightier.”
6
Q
Claudius on Ophelia’s madness
A
“Divided from herself and her fair judgment”
