Hamlet Act 4 Quotes

Question: “I’ll have prepared him a chalice for the nonce”

Answer: Claudius is eager to kill Hamlet

Question: “Revenge should have no bounds”

Answer: Claudius sees vengeance as a neccesary

Question: “I will work him to an exploit”

Answer: Claudius is willing to kill his own nephew

Question: “The queen his mother lives almost by his looks”

Answer: Claudius deems Gertrude to be the main follower of Hamlet

Question: “And where the offence is, let the great axe fall”

Answer: Claudius advises Laertes to kill Hamlet

Question: “When sorrows come, they come not in single spies, but in battalions”

Answer: Claudius talks about how trouble comes in multiples

Question: “O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth”

Answer: Hamlet has changed and is willing to react and kill his father

Question: “One part wisdom and ever three parts coward”

Answer: Hamlet admits his flaws

Question: “For like the hectic in my blood he rages, and thou must cure me”

Answer: Claudius describes Hamlet like a disease

Question: “How dangerous is it that this man gets loose”

Answer: Claudius feels threatened by Hamlet