What Do They Mean?
Cheer up, Hamet!-Gertrude
"His greatness weighed, his will is not his own,
For he himself is subject to his birth."
Laertes to Ophelia
How does Claudius address the concern of young Fortinbras?
I doubt some foul play.
I believe something is wrong.-Hamlet
Why should we in our peevish opposition
Take it to heart? Fie! 'Tis a fault to heaven,
A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,
Claudius to Hamlet
How does Claudius address to the crowd his swift marriage to Gertrude?
He says everyone has advised them to do this.
—you’ll tender me a fool.
"you'll make a fool out of me."-Polonius, when explaining to Ophelia that she can't date Hamlet because it could hurt his reputation.
"This heavy-headed revel east and west
Makes us traduced and taxed of other nations"
Hamlet to Horation-explaining the drunken party to celebrate Claudius' new reign and how embarrassing it is.
What are the three specific requests of the ghost has for Hamlet?
1. Avenge me
2. Leave your mother alone
3. Remember me
I do not set my life in a pin’s fee
My life is worth nothing!-Hamlet, when he says he has nothing to lose and chases after the ghost
"Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!"
Hamlet to self-wishing that suicide wasn't a sin
Why do they choose Horatio to come see the ghost?
Because he is a scholar--namely, a religious scholar that might have more of a divine connection with the dead!
"Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin"
I was killed before I had time to repent!
But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.
Horatio to Marcellus
What does Hamlet make the boys swear?
Not to tell anyone what they saw tonight (although they didn't even see the ghost).