Characters
The name of Hamlet's father.
Who is Hamlet Sr. or Old Hamlet?
The country that the play is set in.
What is Denmark?
The religion that believes that Ghosts are actually demons from hell to corrupt one's soul.
What is Protestant?
This person refers to Hamlet's mother as "our sometime sister, now our queen" (1.2)
Who is Claudius/King?
Hamlet comparing his uncle to a satyr and his father to Hyperion is an example of this.
What is am allusion?
The two countries that are at conflict with each other.
What is Norway and Denmark?
The religion that believes that Ghosts are souls trapped on Earth paying for the past sins while awaiting entrance into heaven.
What is Catholic?
Hamlet says, "Frailty, thy name is woman!" about his mother because he believes that she is committing this.
What is incest?
“But look, the MORN, in russet mantle clad,
WALKS o’er the dew of yon high eastward hill.”
What is personification?
Hamlet's best friend who tried to speak to the Ghost.
Who is Horatio?
What was happening in England when Shakespeare wrote his play?
What is the transition of leadership from Elizabeth to James?
What does Hamlet mean when he says
" But come;
Here, as before, never, so help you mercy,
How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself,
As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
To put an antic disposition on,"
to reveal his plan which is
What is act crazy?
"a defeated joy,
With an auspicious and a dropping eye,"
What is oxymoron?
This opinionated character will spend his time counseling the King as well as his own children.
Who is Polonius?
While Hamlet is meeting with the Ghost, King Claudius is in the castle doing the King's Rouse which is best described as this.
What is party and drink?
The Ghost compares his murder to this.
What is a serpent?
"Think yourself a baby"
What is a metaphor?
This character hangs over the action of the play and serves as a foil to Hamlet; however, we have yet to see this character, only hear about him.
Who is Fortinbras?
The setting of the opening scene.
What is the guard's watch outside of the castle?
The ghost tells Hamlet to leave this person alone.
Who is Queen Gertrude
This person believes that Hamlet will not marry Ophelia because "his will is not his own."
Who is Laertes?
Shakespeare uses the word green throughout like Claudius saying, "Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death/ The memory be green" and Polonius uses "green girl" in order to represent