What is Claudius poured poison in his ear as he slept.
100
"To die-to sleep-to sleep perchance to dream"
Who is Hamlet?
100
"One may smile and still be a villain" furthers this theme.
What is appearance vs. reality?
100
"God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another."
What is makeup?
200
Reason Hamlet doesn't get the throne of Denmark
What kings in Denmark are elected
200
Reason Hamlet wants Horatio to stay alive.
What is to tell the whole story. (He's the only one who knows the whole thing.
200
"O Hamlet, speak no more; thou turns't mine eyes into my very sould; and there I see such black and grained spots as will not leave their tinct."
Who is Gertrude?
200
"What woulds't you undertake to show yourself in deed your father's son/more than in words."
What is appearance vs. reality?
200
"For they are actions that a man might play,/But I have that within that passes show."
What is acting?
300
She is a typical Renaissance daughter who minds her father.
Who is Ophelia?
300
The scene with this character provides comic relief.
Who is Osric?
300
"My lord, we were sent for.
Who are Rosencranz and Guildenstern?
300
"Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay/might stop a hole to keep the wind away."
What is mortality of mad/death as a great equalizer?
300
"'tis and unweeded garden/ That grows to seed."
What is sickness and decay?
400
Reason Polonius and Laertes don't want Ophelia involved with Hamlet.
What is he is not free to choose the person he marries.
400
The ghost tells Hamlet these 2 things.
What is Claudius killed me by pouring poison in my ear.
and that Hamlet must avenge my death.
400
"I sat me down, devised a new commission, wrote it fair".."and stated that "he sould the bearers put to sudden death."
Who is Hamlet?
400
"It will but skin and film the ulcerous place/whiles rank corruption, mining all within, infects unseen."
What is corruption- the physical as a symbol of the mental.
400
The motif this theme represents: Physical and moral corruption
What is sickness and decay?
500
The meaning of King Hamlet's ghost if Claudius is not guilty of killing him.
What is a spirit luring Hamlet to his damnation.
500
When Hamlet wishes that "this too too sullied flesh would melt and resolve itself into a dew...or that the everlasting had not fixed his hand against self slaughter. he is referring to his wish for this.
What is suicide to be rid of his problem of avenging his father's death?
500
"I fear'd he did but trifle and meant to wreck thee."
Who is Polonius?
500
"There's divinity that shapes our ends."
What is fate?
500
"Now I see that noble and most sovereign reason/Like sweet bells jangled, out of time and harsh."