Something is Rotten…
This is the revelation that the Ghost reveals to Hamlet, launching him toward his revenge.
What is that Claudius Murdered King Hamlet?
The purpose behind the play-within-a-play.
What is to test Claudius’ guilt? Or What is to force Claudius to respond?
The person who Hamlet believes that he is stabbing when he strikes through the curtain.
Who is Claudius?
The fate Ophelia meets after her father is killed.
What is drowning?
The reason Hamlet pretends to act confused and erratic around the court.
What is to throw others off/cast blame away from him?
The moment during the performance that exposes Claudius.
What is him standing and stopping the play?
The reason Polonius’s death is more often considered the true climax of the play.
What is that it’s an irreversible action and/or changes everything?
The reason Laertes storms back into Denmark ready for revenge.
What is the value of life and/or the purpose of action?
The famous line where Hamlet reveals why he created the play.
What is “The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king”?
Claudius’s response to discovering Hamlet murdered Polonius.
What is sending Hamlet to England to be executed?
The way Gertrude dies in the final scene.
What is by drinking the poison originally meant for Hamlet?
Who are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
The reason “The Mousetrap” marks a major breakthrough toward the climax
What is that it proves Claudius’s guilt and/or rids Hamlet of his doubt?
The shift in Hamlet’s behavior after killing Polonius.
What is acting impulsively and irrationally?
The deadly plan Claudius and Laertes create to ensure Hamlet’s death.
What is the poisoned wine and poisoned sword?
The act in which Claudius first becomes suspicious of Hamlet due to his strange and evasive responses.
What is Act II?
The action that shows Claudius’s immediate shift in behavior after the play reveals his guilt.
What is plotting Hamlet’s death by sending him to England?
The tragic chain reaction triggered by Polonius’s death.
What is Ophelia’s madness, Laertes’s revenge, and the road to the final tragedy?
Forgiving Hamlet was this characters final act before dying, ending the seemingly endless cycle of revenge.
Who is Laertes?