19. When Shakespeare's Hamlet and his friend Horatio discuss the hasty marriage of Hamlet's mother to his Uncle Claudius soon after his father's funeral, what does Hamlet ironically propose as the reason?
From Quiz What Did Hamlet Say?
Answer:
thrift
Act 1, Scene 2, line 147. "Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral baked meats / Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables." In other words, they did it so they could use the leftovers. Drunkenness, revenge, and impending war all are discussed in the play, but in this scene Hamlet and Horatio are joking bitterly about the unseemliness of the hasty wedding, and Hamlet is being sarcastic.