Who Said It?
"Hamlet, thou art slain./ No medicine in the world can do thee good./ In thee there is not half an hour of life."
Who is Laertes.
How did Ophelia die?
What is she drowned.
What does Yorick's skull symbolize for Hamlet?
What is that everyone, no matter how happy they are in life, will have to meet death one day.
What does Horatio tell Hamlet before the duel between Laertes and Hamlet begins?
What is Hamlet should listen to his gut feeling if he feels like he shouldn't go through with the fight.
Who did Gertrude want to marry Hamlet?
Who is Ophelia.
"Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage./ For he was likely, had he been put on, To have proved most royally."
Who is Fortinbras.
What two people jumped into Ophelia's grave?
Who are Laertes and Hamlet.
Why do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern die?
What is that Hamlet changed the content of Claudius's letter to the authorities of England to have them executed instead of Hamlet.
Who supposedly "faints" at the sight of blood?
Who is Gertrude.
What type of story will Horatio tell after everyone has died?
What is a story of woe, destruction, and the negative effects of revenge, lies, and greed.
"Her death was doubtful,/ And, but that great command o'ersways the order,/ She should in ground unsanctified have lodges/ Till the last trumpet."
Who is the priest.
Why did the priest try to resist giving Ophelia a Christian burial?
What does Laertes mean when he tells Osric, "I am justly killed with mine own treachery"?
What is that Laertes knows his own bad deeds have lead to his demise.
What does Hamlet want Horatio to do after Hamlet is dead?
What is tell Hamlet's story.
Why do the gravediggers sing and make jokes while they dig their graves?
What is they are satiated to the morbidity of their work, and it no longer makes them sad to think about it.
"You will lose this wager, my lord."
Who is Horatio.
Ophelia's outbursts due to the loss of her father, her innocence, and Hamlet suggest that she developed mental health issues. Her unchristian burial suggests what about society at this time?
What is society discriminated against mental illnesses instead of trying to help people with them.
How many people die in this play (including King Hamlet)?
What is nine.
What does Laertes ask of Hamlet when they are both dying?
What is Laertes asks for forgiveness from Hamlet.
Who was Yorick?
Who is the king's jester who used to entertain Hamlet as a young boy.
"And the more pity that great folk should/ have countenance in this world to drown or hang themselves/ more than their even Christian."
Who is the gravedigger.
Two people jump into Ophelia's grave when she is buried. Why?
What is a memento mori?
What is a reminder of death (such as a skull) so that people will remember that there is life after death, and it is each person's choice to see the afterlife as a place of peace or a place of pain based on who they were in their natural life.
How does Fortinbras treat Hamlet's death?
What is Fortinbras decides to allow Hamlet a soldier's burial for an honorable man.
Who gets the last word in the play?
Who is Fortinbras.