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What's My Motivation?
I Am Slain!
There's Your Problem...
Who Said That?
A Brief Description
100
Claudius wants to kill Hamlet because of this.
Because Hamlet is dangerous and probably knows something.
100
This person reported the death of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
English Ambassador
100
The problem with which Hamlet wrestles in his "To be or not to be" soliloquy.
Whether the unknowns of death are a better alternative than the known pains of living.
100
Oh, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth.
Hamlet
100
Bloody, bawdy villain! Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless, villain!
Claudius
200
Laertes wants to kill Hamlet for this reason.
Because Hamlet killed his father (Polonius).
200
The two members of the Danish court who died by some means other than poison.
Ophelia and Polonius
200
The reason Laertes was having a problem hitting Hamlet with the rapier.
Hamlet had been practicing since Laertes went to France OR his growing sense of guilt.
200
I am justly killed with mine own treachery.
Laertes
200
How is it that the clouds still hang on you?
Hamlet
300
Claudius sends Hamlet away instead of arresting him for Polonius' murder because of this.
The people (and Gertrude) love him OR because he has a plan to have Hamlet killed in England.
300
The first character to die in Act V.
Gertrude
300
The 2 major problems Claudius has to deal with when Laertes returned to Denmark. (They relate specifically to Laertes.)
He wants to kill Claudius and the people want to make Laertes king.
300
Thou turnst my eyes into my very soul, And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct.
Gertrude
300
He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorred in my imagination it is.
Yorick
400
This is the reason Hamlet is upset with Laertes.
He feels Laertes is being overly showy in his signs of grief and will not be outdone.
400
The total number of characters who died or whose deaths were reported in Act V.
6: Claudius, Gertrude, Hamlet, Laertes, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern
400
The similar problem discussed in the "O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I" and "How all occasions do inform against me" soliloquies.
Action vs. inaction; Hamlet's lack of action taken thus far because of his doubts
400
No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.
Claudius
400
How absolute the knave is! We must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.
Gravedigger
500
Claudius says he does not feel threatened by Laertes for this reason.
God protects His chosen monarchs.
500
The total number of characters who died or whose deaths were described or reported(If you know how they died, they count).
10: King Fortinbras, King Hamlet, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, Prince Hamlet
500
The first problem discussed by the Gravedigger and his friend.
How Ophelia's drowning could be other than suicide.
500
They say the owl was a baker's daughter. Lord, we know what we are but know not what we may be.
Ophelia
500
This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.
Osric