Kennings
Plot Overview
Quotes
Hamlet related
Themes
100
Transparent teller
Who is ghost
100
True or false: the ghost speaks to horatio.
What is false. Only speaks to hamlet.
100
What is "the serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown" saying?
Who killed your father is now king.
100
True or false: The stories of "Grendel" and "Hamlet" are not set in the same country
False
100
How is death a theme in the first act?
The ghost and the death of the king
200
Compassionate comrade
Horatio
200
Who tells Ophelia to stay away from hamlet?
What is laertes and polonius
200
"I shall the effect of this good lesson keep as a watchmen to my heart" who says this?
What is Ophelia
200
Horatio can best be related to which "Beowulf" character?
Wiglaf
200
Explain how incest is a theme in the first act.
Claudius married Gertrude.
300
fraternal foe
Claudius
300
Name two things that ghost tells hamlet.
What is he was murdered, Claudius killed him, to seek revenge, to leave his mother alone.
300
"Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder" who says this quote?
The ghost
300
What is a main difference in Hamlet's character in the movie and in the book?
In the movie he is more upbeat and bright, while in the book he is portrayed as depressed and dark
300
How is control demonstrated in act one?
Claudius won't let hamlet return to school.
400
Articulate avenger
Hamlet
400
True or false: hamlet tells the other men what the ghost told him
What is false
400
What is the quote, "With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage" saying?
He is sad the king died but it is time to be happy because of the wedding.
400
What do the character Grendel and the character Hamlet have in common?
Both feel alone in grief
400
Who makes the reader question what is reality in act one?
The ghost
500
Observant trio
Marcellus, Bernardo, horatio
500
What does the ghost say over and over when the other men catch up to hamlet?
What is "swear"
500
"I say away! Go on; I'll follow thee" who does hamlet say this quote to?
What is the ghost
500
Hamlet shares at least two themes with 1984: what are they?
Surveillance and language importance.
500
How is action vs inaction represented in the first act
Hamlet doesn't know whether to listen to the ghost or not. (Other answers accepted)
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