Plot Points
This character was invited to witness the ghost on the battlements.
Who is Horatio?
"Good Hamlet, cast they nighted color off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark."
Who is Gertrude?
What is his grief or life?
Prior to their marriage, Claudius and Gertrude shared this relationship.
What are in-laws?
Hamlet wishes this wasn't a forbidden act in his soliloquy.
What is suicide?
King Claudius sends ambassadors to this country to prevent war.
What is Norway?
"The serpent that did sting they father's life / Now wears his crown."
"O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourn'd longer" is Hamlet criticizing this character.
Who is Gertrude?
Hamlet and Ophelia's relationship is complicated by Polonius, who gives Ophelia this instruction.
What is "avoid Hamlet and reject his advances?"
Hamlet compares Gertrude to this weeping mythological figure.
Who is Niobe?
The ghost reveals that this character murdered King Hamlet.
Who is Claudius?
"A Little more than kin and less than kind."
Who is Hamlet?
"The Everlasting had not fix'd / His canon 'gainst self-slaughter" refers to this belief in Hamlet's time.
What is religious prohibition against suicide?
Laertes warns Ophelia about Hamlet because Hamlet must do this as a prince.
What is marry for political reasons?
In his soliloquy, Hamlet compares his father, King Hamlet, to this Greek sun god.
Who is Hyperion?
Hamlet plans to pretend this way after meeting the ghost.
What is mad/crazy/antic?
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
Who is Marcellus?
"Hyperion to a satyr" is a comparison that emphasizes this difference.
What is King Hamlet's superiority to Claudius?
Claudius refers to Hamlet as his "cousin" and this.
What is son?
Hamlet refers to Gertrude and Claudius' marriage as these two kinds of "sheets."
What is incestuous and wicked?
This is what the ghost asks Hamlet to do about Gertrude.
What is "leave her judgment to Heaven"?
"Do not believe his lies, for they are brokers."
Who is Polonius?
"The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!" reflecs Hamlet's feelings about this.
What is his duty to seek revenge?
Hamlet accuses Gertrude of having what trait?
What is frailty?
What is the wind?