Show:
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
ACT V
100
The country in which the play takes place.
What is Denmark?
100
These two childhood friends of Hamlet spy on him under the order of Claudius.
What is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
100
This is why Hamlet doesn't kill King Claudius after he reacts to the play.
What is King Claudius was praying?
100
This is where Hamlet is banished by King Claudius.
What is England?
100
This is who Hamlet duels during this act.
What is Laertes?
200
Denmark is preparing for a possible war with this country.
What is Norway?
200
This is Hamlet's concluded plan after his soliloquy at the end of the act.
What is Hamlet decides to have players come put on a play at the palace for King Claudius in which they act out the scene of King Hamlet's death. Then, if King Claudius reacts, Hamlet will know he is guilty?
200
This is how Polonius is killed during this act.
What is Hamlet stabs him through the curtain, thinking he is King Claudius, while he is arguing with his mother?
200
This is how Ophelia dies in this act.
What is Ophelia drowns herself?
200
These are the people who die in this act.
What is Hamlet, Laertes, King Claudius, and Queen Gertrude.
300
This is what Laertes says is the problem with Hamlet's love for Ophelia.
What is Hamlet is too old for Ophelia to love her and his love is said to be insincere?
300
This is why Hamlet is going crazy/mad.
What is Hamlet saw a ghost, he has an odd situation with his mother, and doing crazy things is making him crazier?
300
This is the most important soliloquy in the play, discussing whether life is worth living.
What is "To be or not to be..."?
300
This is why Hamlet hasn't avenged his father's death.
What is Hamlet overthinks every situation that he is placed in?
300
This is what Fortinbras tells Horatio at the end of the act.
What is Fortinbras tells Horatio that he will give Hamlet a military funeral?
400
This is why Hamlet is upset about King Claudius' drinking and toasting at the party.
What is it lessens Denmark's great achievements and makes their leaders look bad?
400
These are some of the common themes and motifs in this act.
What is deception, betrayal, and appearance vs. reality?
400
This is what happens while the actors are performing the play within the play.
What is King Claudius' reaction shows that he did kill King Hamlet, which means that Hamlet knows he has to kill King Claudius?
400
These are some of the common themes and motifs in this act.
What is death and scheming?
400
This is the meaning of the quote,"For by the image of my cause I see/The portraiture of his."
What is Hamlet is very aware of the impending duel with Laertes?
500
This is why the ghost is Hamlet's father, not the devil or someone other than he says he is.
What is the ghost didn't try to hurt or mislead Hamlet and he was also wearing his armor?
500
This is the meaning of the quote,"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
What is Polonius thinks that Hamlet is in love with Ophelia?
500
This is the meaning of the line,"And am I then revenged/To take him in the purging of his soul..."
What is Hamlet decides at this point to not kill King Claudius because he is praying and makes plans to do it at another time?
500
This is the meaning of the soliloquy,"How all occasions do inform against me..."
What is Hamlet realizes that he is in a situation and that he should really take action and do something about it?
500
This is why life vs. death is an important theme/motif in this act.
What is Hamlet talks about this in his soliloquies, he picks up a skull which symbolizes death, and everybody dies in this act.