Question #12
What kind of weapon does Hamlet compare Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's letters to?
Question #13
What does Hamlet mean in the quote below?
"To be, or not to be– that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them."
Question #14
What does the Player Queen mean in the quote below?
"Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear;
Where little fears grow great, great love grows there."
Question #15
What does Hamlet mean in the quote below?
"Why, let the strucken deer go weep,
The hart ungalled play;
For some must watch, while some must sleep:
Thus runs the world away."
Question #16
What does Claudius mean in the quote below?
"My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
And, like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect."
Question #17
What does Hamlet mean in the quote below?
"Mother, for love of grace,
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul
That not your trespass but my madness speaks."
Question #18
Look where Guildenstern says that Hamlet answered their questions "with much forcing of his disposition."
What does "disposition" mean in this context?
Question #19
Look where Hamlet sings, "For thou dost know, O Damon dear, / This realm dismantled was / Of Jove himself; and now reigns here / A very, very– pajock."
What does "realm" mean in this context?
Question #20
Look where Hamlet says, "my two schoolfellows, / Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd, / They bear the mandate."
What does "mandate" mean in this context?