Hamlet Themes - Act 4 Scene 3-5 Test your ability to discover which of these quotes match up with many different themes. Make sure to take notes and analyse these quotes as best you can! lulumechy published on September 30, 2014 Stacked 1/7 Theme 1 - Machiavellian Leadership Spoken by Ophelia:“ By Gis and by Saint Charity,Alack, and fire for shame!Young men will do it, if they come to it – By c0ck, they are to blame.Quoth sh... Spoken by Gertrude:“To my sick soul, as sin’s true nature is,Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss.So full of artless jealousy is quilt,It spills i... Spoken by Hamlet:“O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!” (4.4.67-68) 2/7 Theme 2 - Revenge Spoken by Laertes:“ How came he dead? I’ll be not juggles with,To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest p... Spoken by Claudius:He’s loved of the distracted multitude, Who like not in their judgment but their eyes.” (4.3.4-5) Spoken by Horatio:“ ‘Twere good she were spoken with, for she may strew Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.” (4.5.15-16) 3/7 Theme 3 - Social Masks Spoken by the Captain:“Truly to speak, and with no addition,we go to gain a little patch of groundthat hath in it no profit but the name.to pay five duca... Spoken by Hamlet:“Now, whether it be,Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple of thinking too precisely on the event – A thought which, quartered, hath b... Spoken by Ophelia:“ By Gis and by Saint Charity,Alack, and fire for shame!Young men will do it, if they come to it – By c*ck, they are to blame.Quoth sh... 4/7 Theme 4 - Passion* vs Reason (Part 1) Hint: 2 choices Spoken by Claudius:"This sudden sending him away must seemDeliberate pause. Diseases desperate grownBy desperate appliance are relieved"(4.3.8-10) Spoken by Hamlet:“ Rightly to be great,Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour’s at the stake.” (4.4. ... Spoken by Horatio:“ ‘Twere good she were spoken with, for she may strew Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.” (4.5.15-16) Spoken by Laertes:“ How came he dead? I’ll be not juggles with,To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest p... 5/7 Theme 4 - Passion vs Reason* (Part 2) Hint: 2 choices Spoken by Claudius:"This sudden sending him away must seemDeliberate pause. Diseases desperate grownBy desperate appliance are relieved"(4.3.8-10) Spoken by Hamlet:“ Rightly to be great,Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour’s at the stake.” (4.4. ... Spoken by Horatio:“ ‘Twere good she were spoken with, for she may strew Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.” (4.5.15-16) Spoken by Laertes:“ How came he dead? I’ll be not juggles with,To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest p... 6/7 Theme 5 - Action* vs Inaction (Part 1) Spoken by Hamlet:“Witness this army of such mass and chargeLed by a delicate and tender prince,Whose spirit with divine ambition puffed,Makes mouths at t... Spoken by Gertrude:“To my sick soul, as sin’s true nature is,Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss.So full of artless jealousy is quilt,It spills i... Spoken by Ophelia:“And will he not come again?And will he not come again?No, no, he is dead,Go to thy death-bed,He will never come againHis white beard... 7/7 Theme 5 - Action vs Inaction* Spoken by the King:“ When sorrows come, they come not single spiesBut in battalions. First, her father slain;Next, your son gone, and he most violet autho... Spoken by Claudius:He’s loved of the distracted multitude, Who like not in their judgment but their eyes.” (4.3.4-5) Spoken by Hamlet:“Now, whether it be,Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple of thinking too precisely on the event – A thought which, quartered, hath b...
