Name that Character
A nightly visitor to Denmark who wears battle armor with his beaver raised to show his silver beard.
Who is the Ghost of Hamlet?
Now, sir, young Fortinbras,
Of unimproved mettle hot and full,
Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there
Shark'd up a list of lawless resolutes,
For food and diet, to some enterprise
That hath a stomach in't; which is no other--
As it doth well appear unto our state--
But to recover of us, by strong hand
And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands
So by his father lost: and this, I take it,
Is the main motive of our preparations,
The source of this our watch and the chief head
Of this post-haste and romage in the land.
Who is Horatio?
What art thou that usurp'st this time of night,
What is alliteration?
Who is Fortinbras?
The animal that Claudius is compared to for killing his brother.
What is a serpent?
Hamlet's love interest is discouraged from dating him by both her father and brother.
Who is Ophelia?
Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
The imperial jointress to this warlike state,
Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,--
With an auspicious and a dropping eye,
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
In equal scale weighing delight and dole,--
Taken to wife: nor have we herein barr'd
Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone
With this affair along.
Who is King Claudius?
This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
What is foreshadowing?
It is the sin that Hamlet believes his mother is committing.
What is incest?
The figure that Hamlet compares to his mother in regards to the mourning of her lost husband.
Who is Niobe?
A deceptive character who ironically tells Hamlet to stop mourning his father because it is "'tis unmanly grief;/ It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,/ A heart unfortified, a mind impatient,/ An understanding simple and unschool'd."
Who is King Claudius?
so loving to my mother
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on: and yet, within a month--
Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman!--
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she follow'd my poor father's body,
Who is Hamlet?
KING CLAUDIUS
Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine,
And thy best graces spend it at thy will!
But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,--
HAMLET
[Aside] A little more than kin, and less than kind.
What is a pun?
The color used throughout the play to show that something is new and sometimes sick.
What is green?
Hyperion is compared to this character.
Who is Old Hamlet/the Ghost?
Claudius says that "The head is not more native to the heart,/ The hand more instrumental to the mouth,/ Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father."
Who is Polonius?
Perhaps he loves you now,
And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch
The virtue of his will: but you must fear,
His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own;
For he himself is subject to his birth:
He may not, as unvalued persons do,
Carve for himself; for on his choice depends
The safety and health of this whole state;
And therefore must his choice be circumscribed
Unto the voice and yielding of that body
Whereof he is the head.
Who is Laertes?
Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,--
With an auspicious and a dropping eye,
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
In equal scale weighing delight and dole,
What is Oxymoron?
This is what Hamlet pretends to be catch the King.
What is insane or mad?
What is a satyr?
Hamlet's friend who fears that the Ghost may "tempt you toward the flood, my lord/
Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff/...
Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason
And draw you into madness?"
Who is Horatio?
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Who is Polonius?
When he the ambitious Norway combated
What is Metonymy?
Is what Protestants believe of the Ghost.
What is a demon?
Who is Hercules?