Question #9
What does Claudius customarily spend his nights doing?
Question #10
What does Horatio worry the ghost might do?
Question #11
How did King Hamlet die?
Question #12
What does Hamlet say he will pretend to be?
Question #13
What does Claudius mean in the quote below?
"Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death
The memory be green, and that it us befitted
To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom
To be contracted in one brow of woe,
Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature
That we with wisest sorrow think on him
Together with remembrance of ourselves."
Question #14
What does Hamlet mean in the quote below?
"But I have that within which passeth show–
These but the trappings and the suits of woe."
Question #15
What does Ophelia mean in the quote below?
"Do not as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own rede.
Question #16
What does the ghost mean in the quote below?
"But virtue, as it never will be mov'd,
Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,
So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd,
Will sate itself in a celestial bed
And prey on garbage.
Question #17
What does Hamlet mean in the quote below?
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.