Scene 1
Scene 2
Soliloquy
Analyzing Soliloquy
Vocabulary
100
The thing that the guards and Horatio see at midnight.
The ghost of Hamlet Sr.
100
The first lines of scene 2 are spoken by...
Claudius
100
The character who gives the first soliloquy.
Hamlet
100
What is the speaker talking about in the following lines: "O that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self - slaughter..." (lns 131 - 134, pg 42)
Suicide. The speaker cannot commit it because it is against their religion.
100
A sentry is ____.
A guard
200
When the ghost appears, Horatio and the guards try to get it to talk by...
Trying to strike it out with their swords/spears.
200
"We did so with a downhearted sort of happiness; with one eye cheerful, the other sad: bringing joy to the funeral and sorrow to the marriage." Here the speaker, Claudius is...
Feeling bittersweet. He is sad that his brother has died but happy that he has just married Gertrude, his brother's former wife.
200
True or False: Characters reveal their true feelings when they are giving a soliloquy
True.
200
"How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't, ah fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature..." (lns 135 - 138; pg 42) What is the modern day translation for these lines? (pg 43)
"How weary, stale and purposeless everything on this earth seems to be! A blight upon it! It's a neglected garden that's gone to seed; it's overwhelmed with repulsive weeds."
200
After seeing the ghost but being unable to speak to it, Horatio _____________, it will speak to Hamlet Jr.
Wagers
300
Horatio joins the guards on duty because...
He did not believe the guards when they told him about the ghost. He wants to see the ghost for himself.
300
Hamlet is surprised to see this person because he is supposed to be in Wittenberg. This person came down for Hamlet Sr.'s funeral.
Horatio
300
A Soliloquy is...
When a character is speaking their thoughts aloud. They must be alone on stage, think they are alone on stage. Typically the listener is the audience.
300
"So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he may not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly." (lns 141 - 144) Here the speaker is comparing _______ to a Hyperion and ___________ to a satyr.
Hamlet Sr. and Claudius
300
A number of characters were doubtful about the existence of the ghost of Hamlet Sr. Another word for doubtful is ________
Skeptical
400
"This was exactly the armor he was wearing when he fought old Fortinbras of Norway. He wore that very frown when, after a fierce fighting, he defeated the Polish soldiers on their sledges as they crossed the ice." This passage is describing...
How the ghost's clothing and facial expression resemble King Hamlet Sr.
400
Laertes does this in Act 1, Scene 2 in the play.... *hint lns 50 - 57; pg 37*
Laertes asks for Claudius' permission to leave to France.
400
In the first soliloquy the themes being discussed are
Suicide, Betrayal and Family
400
"She married. O most wicked speed! To post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not, nor it cannot come to good. But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue" (lns 158 - 161, pg 44) What is one thing we learn about the speaker from this excerpt?
Thinks the new marriage is incestuous and happened too quickly. Predicts that nothing good will happen. The speaker will not say anything about the new marriage even though he is against it.
400
"Why, she would cling to him as if she had a _____________ appetite for him" (lns 145 - 146, pg 43)
Insatiable
500
According to Horatio, the reason the men are on 24/7 castle watch is because...
Young Fortinbras wants to take the land that his father lost back from Denmark. He believes that since the king is dead, the state of the country is weak.
500
Claudius responds to Hamlet's mourning and sadness by saying that... *hint 91 - 96; pg 41*
Mourning his father's death is disrespectful to his father's legacy. He says it is weak to mourn. He says that death is natural, everyone will or has lost a father or someone they loved.
500
_________ and __________ leave when he gives his soliloquy and ______________ comes and ends his soliloquy. *hint: these are 3 different names*
Queen/Gertrude, King/Claudius, Horatio
500
"A mere month: even before the shoes were old in which she followed my poor father's corpse, sobbing inconsolably, like Niobe -- why, she, she of all women! " (lns, 149 - 151, pg 43) In these lines the speaker compares Gertrude to a Greek character, Queen Niobe of Thebes. Who is Niobe?
Niobe represents a mothers grief. She was turned into stone by Zeus because of her pride; her tears still flowed from her even though her body was stone.
500
Horatio hopes that Hamlet and everyone else pays attention to the dire warnings given by the ghost's appearance. Dire means...
Extreme, urgent, important or serious
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