What does Polonius mean in the quote below?
"But breathe his faults so quaintly
That they may seem the taints of liberty,
The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,
A savageness in unreclaimed blood,
Of general assault."
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Question #14
What does Claudius mean in the quote below?
"Moreover that we much did long to see you,
The need we have to use you did provoke
Our hasty sending."
Question #15
What does Polonius mean in the quote below?
"How pregnant sometimes his replies are! a happiness that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of."
Question #16
What does Hamlet mean in the quote below?
"It is not very strange; for my uncle is King of Denmark, and those that would make mows at him while my father lived give twenty, forty, fifty, a hundred ducats apiece for his picture in little."
Question #17
What does Hamlet mean in the quote below?
"Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity."
Question #18
Look where Polonius says "And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, / With windlasses and with assays of bias, / By indirections find directions out."
What does "bias" mean in this context?
Question #19
Look where Hamlet's love letter reads "O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers; I have not art to reckon my groans."
What does "reckon" mean in this context?
Question #20
Look where Hamlet calls the players "the abstract and brief chronicles of the time."
What does "abstract" mean in this context?
Question #21
Were there any events that weren't clear to you?
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