Who was the character/characters Claudius invites them to court in order to spy on Hamlet.
100
Innocence, and purity
What does Ophelia's death represent?
100
Polonius
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
100
Hamlet considers if it might not be better to kill oneself and end all our misfortunes once and for all.
Why is "To be, or not to be" such a memorable line?
200
Mistakenly drinks the poison.
How does Gertrude die?
200
Fortinbras
Who is The Prince of Norway and in many ways has a story that is parallel to Hamlet's: he too has lost his father by violence
200
It symbolizes the inevitability of death.
What does Yorick's skull represent?
200
Hamlet
I'll speak to it though Hell itself should gape
And bid me hold my peace.
200
Hamlet persuades the characters that he had gone mad when the audience knew that he faked it.
Hamlet acts like he is mad.
300
Polonius is killed by Hamlet when he is hiding behind the curtain in Hamlet's mother's bedroom.
How was Polonius killed?
300
Reynaldo
Who is Polonius' servant, sent to check on Laertes in Paris?
300
It is a symbol of betrayal, corruption, deceit, revenge and death.
What does poison symbolize?
300
Ophelia
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads.
And recks not his own rede.
300
Dramatic irony results because only Hamlet and the readers know the truth that Claudius murdered Hamlet's father.
the Ghost reveals to Hamlet that he was poisoned to death by Claudius who spread the rumor that he died of snake bite which is believed to be true by everyone in Denmark.
400
Killed by his own poisoned sword when Hamlet gets a hold of his sword and wounds him.
How was Polonius killed?
400
Horatio
Who is Hamlet's closest friend knowing each other from the University of Wittenberg?
400
Laertes
For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favours,
Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood;
A violet in the youth of primy nature,
Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,
The perfume and suppliance of a minute —
No more.
400
Horatio
Who is a FOIL to Hamlet?
500
Killed by a poison glass of wine that was intended for Hamlet from Claudius.
What caused the death of Queen Gertrude?
500
Osric
Who is the foolish courtier who summons Hamlet to his duel with Laertes?
500
In descriptions of Claudius, in Marcellus' famous claim that something is rotten in the state of Denmark, and repeated throughout the play, vegetative decay symbolizes evil and the irreducible fact of death.
How is decay and decadence a motif in the play?
500
The ghost.
Murder most foul, as in the best it is;
But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.
500
They provided a comedy relief.
Explain the function of the Gravediggers at the beginning of Act V.