instances of deception
just hamlet
all-too-unfortunate deaths
obscure characters
death and figurative language
100

Hamlet's name for the Murder of Gonzago play

The Mousetrap
100

Hamlet's fatal flaw

Overthinking

100

Type of tree Ophelia fell out of

Willow

100

Who was Yorick?

The court jester

100

In which soliloquy is this found?: "The undiscovered country from whose bourn / No traveler returns"

"To be or not to be"

200

Polonius' fishing metaphor to Reynaldo about his method of spying on Laertes

"Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth."

200

The grave Hamlet was standing near when he held Yorick's skull.

Ophelia's grave

200

Character Hamlet mistook Polonius for behind the tapestry

Claudius

200

Prince Fortinbras wants this from Denmark

Land that used to belong to Norway

200

Speaker of this quote: "Had I but time (as this fell sergeant, Death, / Is strict in his arrest)"

Hamlet

300

The two characters Polonius was spying on when he was killed

Hamlet and Gertrude

300

Biblical figure Hamlet compares Polonius to

Jephthah

300

Hamlet died before hearing of their execution in England

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

300

Ophelia pretends to read this before interacting with Hamlet

A prayer book

300

Who is Hamlet referring to? "tell / Why thy canonized bones, hearsèd in death, Have burst their cerements"

the Ghost
400

The item Claudius put in Hamlet's cup containing poison

a pearl

400

Act and scene where Hamlet was wounded

Act 5 Scene 2

400

"The treacherous instrument is in thy hand..."

"...unbated and envenomed."

400

Identifies himself as 'liegeman to the Dane'

Marcellus

400

Speaker of this quote: "O proud Death, / What feast is toward in thine eternal cell / That thou so many princes at a shot / So bloodily hast struck?"

Fortinbras

500

"The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art, ..."

"...Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it."

500

Flower Hamlet should receive from Ophelia

Daisies (symbolizing false promises of love)

500
Three characters killed by their own schemes

Claudius, Laertes, Polonius

500

Hamlet insults this character, saying that Laertes' reputation didn't suffer from his account of it

Osric

500

What is Hamlet contemplating?: "For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, / When we have shuffled off this mortal coil"

the afterlife

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