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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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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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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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Q: wants not buzzers to infect his ear With pestilent speeches of his father's death (4.5.92-93)
S: Claudius is worried that Laertes will be poisoned by gossip in the street about his father's death.

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Q: "Behind the arras hearing something stir,/ Whips out his rapier, cries 'A rat, a rat!" (4.1.8-9).
S: Shakespeare draws comparison between Polonius and rats. He does this, given in the context of the age in which the play was written, in order to allude to the Bubonic plague ravaging Great Britain in the 16th-17th centuries. Rats happened to be the prime conduit of the spread of disease, and with the comparison of Polonius and the rat, the playwright implies Polonius has assisted the spread of poison among the citizens and royalty of Denmark.

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Q: “Her speech is nothing, Yet the unshapèd use of it doth move The hearers to collection. They yawn at it And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts, Which, as her winks and nods and gestures yield them, Indeed would make one think there might be thought, Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily” (IV.5.8-14).

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Q: “Her speech is nothing, Yet the unshapèd use of it doth move The hearers to collection. They yawn at it And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts, Which, as her winks and nods and gestures yield them, Indeed would make one think there might be thought, Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily” (IV.5.8-14).

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S: Ophelia is losing her mind from all the poison spread through the kingdom. No one has made sense of what she’s saying and can’t make sense why she went crazy. She has been poisoned.

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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: His own fright of Hamlet knowing the truth has poisoned his brain to create a plot to poison Hamlet.

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Q: "Now, whether it's animal-like mindlessness, or the cowardly hesitation that comes from thinking too much... fight over nothing if your honor was at stake" (4.4. 38-40; 52-53)
S: Hamlet has been fully poisoned with bloody thoughts and no remorse. He only cares about avenging his father's death, and no longer cares about being humane.

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Ophelia: “How should I your true love know From another one? By his cockle bat and staff And his sandal shoon” (IV.5.25-8).

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Ophelia: “How should I your true love know From another one? By his cockle bat and staff And his sandal shoon” (IV.5.25-8).

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This is the first demonstration of the effects of the poison inside the book. As Ophelia says, how do I tell true love from untrue love, which was a poison that Hamlet had spread to Ophelia.

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Q: O, this is the poison of deep grief. It springs all from her father’s death, and now behold! (v. 80- 81)

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Q: O, this is the poison of deep grief. It springs all from her father’s death, and now behold! (v. 80- 81)

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S: The grief going through Ophelia, after her father's death, is like poison seeping through her mind. Poison to the heart and mind.

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Q: "A sister driven into desperate terms" (4.7.28)
S: Ophelia is so poisoned from Hamlet and Polonius that she has gone crazy as well.

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Q: “O, from this time forth,/My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!” (IV.IV.67)
S: As Hamlet watches Fortinbras and his army march across Denmark, he thinks about all the lives that will be lost in spite of such an insignificant purpose. In addition, he is ashamed that he did not avenge his father’s death and poisoned mother. At this point, his thoughts are clear and his mind has been made; revenge.

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Q: "For like the hectic in my blood he rages, and thou must cure me."
S: Claudius has poisoned himself with his own poison and he is trying to heal himself by killing Hamlet.

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Q: "Leave her to heaven and to those thorns in her bosom that lodge to prick and sting her" (1.5.86-88) 

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Q: "Leave her to heaven and to those thorns in her bosom that lodge to prick and sting her" (1.5.86-88) 

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S: The Ghost is telling Hamlet not to harm her. That she will get what she is coming and to let her fate be sealed eventually. Gertrude has been poisoned from the marriage to Claudius, which shows that she never really loved King Hamlet.

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Q: “That I can keep your counsel, and not mine own. Besides, to/ be demanded of a sponge, what replication should be made by/ the son of a king?” (IV.I.11)

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Q: “That I can keep your counsel, and not mine own. Besides, to/ be demanded of a sponge, what replication should be made by/ the son of a king?” (IV.I.11)

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S: Rosencrantz, a supposed childhood friend of Hamlet’s, is poisoned by Claudius and reports Hamlet’s whereabouts to him. Hamlet sees right through the deception, and compares him to a sponge; he soaks up information about Hamlet until Claudius squeezes it out of him.

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Q: “O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!” (IV.4.67-8)

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Q: “O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!” (IV.4.67-8)

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S: Hamlet is poisoning his own mind with the focus on revenge. He is poisoning his mind with his own “moral high ground” and “the savior of his father”.

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Q: "The potent poison quite o’er-crows my spirit” (V.ii.343)."

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Q: "The potent poison quite o’er-crows my spirit” (V.ii.343)."

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S: during the duel with Laertes, Hamlet realizes he has been poisoned both physically and mentally. With the poison in his body, and the poison from Claudius's corruption.

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Q: "These words like daggers enter in mine ears" (3.4.104)

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Q: "These words like daggers enter in mine ears" (3.4.104)

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S: Gertrude is trying not to be poisoned by hamlet words

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Q: “How should I your true love know From another one? By his cockle bat and staff And his sandal shoon” (IV.5.25-8). 

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Q: “How should I your true love know From another one? By his cockle bat and staff And his sandal shoon” (IV.5.25-8). 

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S: This is the first demonstration of the effects of the poison inside the book. As Ophelia says, how do I tell true love from untrue love, which was a poison that Hamlet had spread to Ophelia.

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Q: “Ay, sir; that soaks up the King’s countenance, his rewards, his authorities” (IV.2.15-6).

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Q: “Ay, sir; that soaks up the King’s countenance, his rewards, his authorities” (IV.2.15-6).

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S: Hamlet has been soaking up all of the King’s favors and rewards. Hamlet has been putting up with the King and soaking up the poison he has been spewing.

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Q: “The terms of our estate may not endure Hazard so near us as doth hourly grow Out of his brows.” (3.3.5-7)

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Q: “The terms of our estate may not endure Hazard so near us as doth hourly grow Out of his brows.” (3.3.5-7)

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S: Hamlet’s uncle has poisoned almost everyone but now Hamlet may ruin his rule over Denmark.

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Q: “The body is with the King, but the King is not with the body” (IV.2.25).

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Q: “The body is with the King, but the King is not with the body” (IV.2.25).

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S: The King may be not human. He acts without humanity and as if he is not human. He is in himself poison, as a creature and poisonous to his surroundings.

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Q: “You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal—except my life, except my life, except my life” (II.ii.205-207). 

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Q: “You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal—except my life, except my life, except my life” (II.ii.205-207). 

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S: Hamlet's all consuming desire to kill Claudius is a poison which even makes him dull to his own life.