Hamlet's family
When a character has a contrasting quality to the protagonist.
What is a Foil?
What happens to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
Hamlet has the King of England kill them.
He says "O that this too too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His cannon 'gainst self slaughter."
Who is Hamlet?
She says "And with a look so piteous in purport/ As if he had been loosed out of hell/ To speak of horrors, -- he comes before me."
Who is Ophelia?
One reason Hamlet hasn't killed himself so far that he reveals through his famous soliloquy.
What is it's a sin, or he doesn't know what will come next.
The reason, according to the gravediggers, that Ophelia is given a Christian burial even though her death is suspicious.
What is because she is a gentlewoman(high class)?
A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word. ....rhymes with "fun"
What is a pun?
One reason that Claudius doesn't simply kill Hamlet himself.
What are 1) he is loved by the people or 2) he is loved by Gertrude.
Hamlet's tragic flaw.
What is inaction?
A reference in literature to another story that the audience would typically have prior knowledge of (such as Claudius comparing his story to that of Cain and Abel).
What is an allusion?
He says "I am justly killed with my own treachery."
Who is Laertes?
This is what Hamlet places the blame on in his apology to Laertes.
What is madness?
Polonius' job.
What is a councilor or advisor to King Claudius?
"But I am very sorry, good Horatio,/That to Laertes I forgot myself,/ For, by the image of my cause I see/ The very portraiture of his."
Who is Hamlet?