What is Hamlet visiting her and acting very unbalanced?
100
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have been called in by Gertrude and Claudius for this reason.
What is because they have known him since childhood.
100
Old Norway does this when he discovers his nephew has raised an army against Denmark without his permission.
What is gives him 3000 crowns annually and permission to attack Poland instead.
100
When you hear someone say "pregnant replies," you know they are quoting this person and they mean this.
Who is Polonius and what is they are implying that you are saying more than appears on the surface.
200
This is what Reynaldo is supposed to do before he lets Laertes know he's in town.
What is inquire about his behavior.
200
This is what Polonius believes is the cause of Hamlet's madness
What is Ophelia's rejection of his love?
200
Although Hamlet is very depressed, he greets Rosencrantz and Guildenstern by making sophomoric jokes about this.
What is their relationship with Fortune (they live about the "middle of her favors...her very privates.")
200
This is what Polonius says when the King gets excited that Polonius claims to know the cause of Hamlet's madness
What is "wait and listen to the news from Norway first."
200
When you hear someone say there is a "method to their madness" you know they are quoting this person and they mean this.
Who is Polonius and what is they mean something that appears crazy is actually quite sane.
300
This is the person who Polonius wants accused of gambling, swearing, and hiring prostitutes.
Who is his son, Laertes?
300
This is what Gertrude believes is the reason for Hamlet's madness (double points for knowing the quote :)
What is "no other than the main: his father's death, and our o'erhasty marriage."
300
This is how Rosencrantz and Guildenstern react when the King and Queen ask them to manipulate and spy on their childhood best friend, Hamlet.
What is they fall all over themselves agreeing to help.
300
This is what Old Norway, on behalf of his nephew Fortinbras, asks of King Claudius.
What is to take his army through Denmark in order to get to Poland.
300
When you hear someone say "neither a borrower nor a lender be," you know they are quoting this person and they mean this.
Who is Polonius and what is borrowing and lending to friends often result in both lost money and friend.
400
This person says it is best "by indirection to find direction out," a phrase that operates as a major motif in the play.
Who is Polonius.
400
This is evidence that Hamlet isn't really mad
What is that he tells R & G that he "is but mad north-north-west" and that he calls Polonius a "tedious old fool" immediately after behaving insanely in his presence.
400
This is the only friend/family member who has been loyal to Hamlet thus far
Who is Horatio?
400
This is why it's so ironic that Polonius claims that "brevity is the soul of wit."
What is because he goes on and on so, that Gertrude is forced to say "more matter with less art."
400
When you hear someone say "to thine own self be true" you know they are quoting this person and they mean this.
Who is Polonius and what is that if you are true to yourself you cannot be untrue to anyone else.
500
These are the people who spy in Act II
Who is nearly every character?
500
When Polonius interrupts Hamlet's reading in the hallway, Hamlet acts crazy, but all the while he is doing this to Polonius.
What is insulting him?
500
When Hamlet asks Rosencrantz and Guildenstern why they are in Elsinore, they respond this way.
What is they lie?
500
Polonius is as irritating as this kind of teacher, because he criticizes this while reading Hamlet's love letter aloud to the King and Queen.
What is an English teacher who criticizes diction?
500
When you hear someone say "there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so," you know they are quoting this person and they mean this.
Who is Hamlet, and what is the idea that human thought can control reality?