Characters
The name of Hamlet's father.
Who is Hamlet Sr. or Old Hamlet?
The religion that believes that Ghosts are actually demons from hell to corrupt one's soul.
What is Protestant?
This person refers to Hamlet's mother as "our sometime sister, now our queen" (1.2)
Who is Claudius/King?
Hamlet comparing his uncle to a satyr and his father to Hyperion is an example of this.
What is am allusion?
The religion that believes that Ghosts are souls trapped on Earth paying for the past sins while awaiting entrance into heaven.
What is Catholic?
Hamlet says, "Frailty, thy name is woman!" about his mother because he believes that she is committing this.
What is incest?
“But look, the MORN, in russet mantle clad,
WALKS o’er the dew of yon high eastward hill.”
What is personification?
Hamlet's best friend who tried to speak to the Ghost.
Who is Horatio?
Hamlet says
" But come;
Here, as before, never, so help you mercy,
How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself,
As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
To put an antic disposition on,"
to reveal his plan which is
What is act crazy?
"a defeated joy,
With an auspicious and a dropping eye,"
What is oxymoron?
This character tells Ophelia to break up with Hamlet because he is simply using her for his own pleasure and doesn't care about her.
Who is Polonius?
While Hamlet is meeting with the Ghost, King Claudius is in the castle doing the King's Rouse which is best described as this.
What is party and drink?
The Ghost compares his murder to this.
What is a serpent?
"Think yourself a baby"
What is a metaphor?
This character hangs over the action of the play and serves as a foil to Hamlet; however, we have yet to see this character, only hear about him.
Who is Fortinbras?
The setting of the opening scene.
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
What is there is hidden corruption in Denmark?
Shakespeare uses the word green throughout like Claudius saying, "Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death/ The memory be green" and Polonius uses "green girl" in order to represent