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Q: "We would not understand what was most fit; / But, like the owner of a foul disease, / To keep it from divulging, let it feed / Even on the pith of life" (4.1.20-23),  -
S: GIVES HIDDEN PICTURE FOR DISEASE THAT GETS WORSE BECAUSE IT IS HIDDEN

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Q:  "Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots" (4.3.21-23), ---
S: Shakespeare advances the corruption in Denmark through Hamlet’s description of the cycle of life using the images of death and decay “as we fat ourselves for maggots” (4.3.25)  giving the audience a glimpse into the change of Hamlet’s perception of death.

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Q: "Do it, England; / For like the hectic in my blood he rages, / And thou must cure me" (4.3.65-67).
S: hectic" is a high fever that won't quit, and the King wants England to execute Hamlet.

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Through Hamlet’s soliloquy, his indeceiveness changes to one of action as “from this time forth my thought be bloody, or be nothing worth! “ (4.4. 68) showing the poison of vengeance has now taken hold of him.

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Though seeming to be brave and determined,  he is now just a puppet who has been manipulated by toxic advisors – first Polonius and then by Claudius who commands him to “let the great axe fall”. (4.6.232)

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“I’ll have prepar’d him A chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping, If he by chance escape your venom’d stuck, Our purpose may hold there” (IV.vii.159-162)

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"Revenge should have no bounds"
(IV.vii.146)

Claudius sees revenge as necessary.

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"Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain, And from his mother's closet hath he dragged him"
(IV.i.35)

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"When sorrows come, they come not in single spies, but in battalions."
(IV.v.83)
Claudius talks about how trouble comes in multiples.

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"His liberty is full of threats to all, to you yourself, to us, to everyone."
(IV.i.14-15)

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"O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth."
(IV.v.68)

Claudius is accepting death from Hamlet

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"For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favours, hold it a fashion and a toy in blood; A violet in the youth of primy nature, forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting; the perfume and suppliance of a minute; no more" (1, 3, 6-11).

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"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
(I.iv.100)

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"Behind the arras hearing something stir, Whips out his rapier, cried 'A rat, a rat!' (4.1.9)

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"Tis an unweeded garden
That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely"
(I.ii.139-141)

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"This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property fordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings." (II.i.113-1150

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"The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England." (IV.iv.67)

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"One woe doth tread upon another's heel, so fast they follow. Your sister's drown'd Laertes" (4, 7, 181-182).

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"Let's follow

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Q: “Compounded it with dust, whereto ‘tis kin” (4.2.6).

S: Hamlet touches on the overall theme of decay, as all of the characters’ bodies will eventually decay to match the corruption of their souls.

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Q: “When he needs what you have glean’d, it is but squeezing you and, sponge, you shall be dry again” (4.2.18-20).

S: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are poisoned by Clausius against their friend, used as tools to achieve Claudius’ goals.

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Q: “So happy slander whose whisper o’er the world’s diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports his poisoned shot, may miss our name and hit the woundless air” (4.1.41-44).

S: Claudius, the source of so much slander and poison in the ears of Denmark, is hoping his poison will not come back to haunt him, foreshadowing his demise.

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Q: “Diseases desperate grown by desperate appliance are relieved. Or not at all” (4.3.9-11).

S: Claudius’ murder of King Hamlet cause the immediate decay of the country, and only a radical solution (killing him) will staunch the poison spreading from person to person.

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Q: “This is the imposthume of much wealth and peace, that inward breaks, and shows no cause without why the man dies” (4.4.28-30).

S: The opposite of Denmark, wealth and peace in Norway have poisoned the men all the same, and led them to cast away their lives over unimportant things.

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Q: “To my sick soul, as sin’s true nature is, each toy seems prologue to some great amiss” (4.5.28-29).

S: Claudius and Hamlet’s poison have made Gertrude paranoid, but she also foreshadows the grave repercussions for each poisoned word at the end of the play.

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Q: “And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe, but even his mother shall uncharge the practice, and call it accident” (4.7.71-73).

S: Claudius has poisoned Laertes to his side, and now plans to poison even his own wife with lies by making Hamlet’s death look like an accident.

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Q: “Sith you have heard, and with knowing ear, that he which hath your noble father slain pursued my life” (4.7.3-5).

S: Claudius is pouring poison into Laertes’ ear, turning him against Hamlet to distract from his own crimes.

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Q: “Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?” (4.7.120-121)

S: By calling into question Laertes’ devotion to his father, Claudius’ poisoned words force Laertes to join Claudius’ plan to kill Hamlet.

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Q: “I’ll touch my point with this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly, it may be death” (4.7.161-163).

S: The book comes almost full circle, as Claudius pours poisonous words into Laertes’ ears, convincing him to poison Hamlet as Claudius poisoned his father.

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Q: “But long it could not be till that her garments, heavy with their drink, pull’d the poor wretch from her melodious lay to muddy death” (4.7.198-201).

S: Claudius’ poison has claimed another life, pulling Ophelia from a happy and full life to the death.

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Q: “I’ll touch my point with this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly, it may be death” (4.7.161-163).

S: The book comes almost full circle, as Claudius pours poisonous words into Laertes’ ears, convincing him to poison Hamlet as Claudius poisoned his father.

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Q: “Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?” (4.7.120-121)

S: By calling into question Laertes’ devotion to his father, Claudius’ poisoned words force Laertes to join Claudus’ plan to kill Hamlet.

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Q: “Sith you have heard, and with knowing ear, that he which hath your noble father slain pursued my life” (4.7.3-5).

S: Claudius is pouring poison into Laertes’ ear, turning him against Hamlet to distract from his own crimes.

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Q: “I dare damnation. To this point I stand, that both the worlds, I give to negligence, let come what comes; only I’ll be revenged most thoroughly for my father” (4.5.143-146).

S: Laertes stands in direct contrast with Hamlet, who has spent the majority of the book pondering how revenge will affect him in the next life; Laertes merely acts without thinking, spurred on by emotion.

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Q: “And want not buzzers to infect his ear with pestilent speeches of his father’s death” (4.5.92-93).

S: The people have been pouring poisoned stories into Laertes’ ears, counteracting Claudius’ own poisoned words.

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Q: “But long it could not be till that her garments, heavy with their drink, pull’d the poor wretch from her melodious lay to muddy death” (4.7.198-201).

S: Claudius’ poison has claimed another life, pulling Ophelia from a happy and full life to the death.

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Q: “To my sick soul, as sin’s true nature is, each toy seems prologue to some great amiss” (4.5.28-29).

S: Claudius and Hamlet’s poison have made Gertrude paranoid, but she also foreshadows the grave repercussions for each poisoned word at the end of the play.

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Q: “When he needs what you have glean’d, it is but squeezing you and, sponge, you shall be dry again” (4.2.18-20).

S: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are poisoned by Clausius against their friend, used as tools to achieve Claudius’ goals.

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Q: “O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth” (4.4.67-68).

S: Moved by the soldiers from Norway, Hamlet vows to cast off the poison of his indecision and move to kill Claudius, spiraling the characters faster towards death.

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"To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest evil!.... Let come what comes; only I'll be revenged Most throughly for my father." (4.5.145)