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illusion vs. reality
family ideals
sanity vs. insanity
passionate acts & consequences
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I’ll have grounds More relative than this. The play’s the thing Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king. (2.2.565-567)
What is Mouse Trap, the play that will give Hamlet more evidence of what his ghost father says?
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Marry, sir, here’s my drift: (And I believe it is a fetch of wit) You, laying these slight sullies on my son As ’twere a thing a little soiled i' th' working— Mark you, your party in converse… 2.1. 39-43).
What does Polonius want Reynaldo to do for him?
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(aside) How pregnant sometimes his replies are. A happiness that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of( 2.2 199-201).
How does hamlet’s speech suggest madness?
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...as you did command I did repel his fetters and denied His access to me (1.2. 108-110).
What is the source of Hamlet’s “transformation,” according to Polonius?
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Why, then, ‘tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. To me, it is a prison.” (2.2. 268-270)
What is Hamlet's comparison of Denmark to prison because he is so depressed about his fathers murder?
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That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court Some little time so by your companies To draw him on to pleasures and to gather, So much as from occasion you may glean, Whether aught, to us unknown, afflicts him thus That, opened, lies within our remedy. (2.2. 13-18)
What will Rosencrantz and Guildenstern do for King Claudius, Queen Gertrude and Hamlet?
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Though this be madness, yet there is method in ’t- (2.2.195-196).
What is ignored proof that Hamlet is not truly crazy but may be pretending?
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At such a time I’ll loose my daughter to him. (to CLAUDIUS) Be you and I behind an arras then, Mark the encounter. If he love her not And be not from his reason fall'n thereon, Let me be no assistant for a state But keep a farm and carters(2.2. 154-158.
What trap does Polonius set to get Hamlet to reveal what may be on the young man’s mind?
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To visit you, my lord, no other occasion.
How do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hide that they were sent for by the king and queen?
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But look where sadly the poor wretch comes reading(2.2.160).
How does Gertrude no pity Hamlet's condition?
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He took me by the wrist and held me hard. Then goes he to the length of all his arm, And, with his other hand thus o'er his brow, He falls to such perusal of my face As he would draw it. Long stayed he so(2,1,89-91.
What does Ophelia report to her father concerning Hamlet’s “antic disposition”?
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Come, go with me. I will go seek the king. This is the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property fordoes itself And leads the will to desperate undertakings As oft as any passion under heaven That does afflict our natures( 2.1.201-6).
What does Polonius plan to do about Ophelia’s report of Hamlet?
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The spirit I have seen may be a devil, and the devil hath power t’assume a pleasing shape” (2.2. 627-629).
What is Hamlet's concern that what he thinks is the ghost of King Hamlet may actually be the devil?
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Oh What a rogue and peasant slave am I (2.2.509)
How has Hamlet changed how he views himself?
400
Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.(2.2.166)
How does Hamlet pretend not to recognize Polonius to feign madness.
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Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love"(2.2.116-119).
What is Hamlet's passionate letter to Ophelia?
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What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?(2.2.286-290)
What is Hamlet's changing perception of man?
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What’s Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have (2.2.518-21).
What is Hamlet's criticism that he is not stirred to act quickly on his father's behalf , while the actor is so passionate about fiction?
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“I have of late, but wherefore I do not know, lost all my mirth, forgone all costum of exercises, and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory…” (2.2. 318-322)
How is avenging the death of Hamlet Sr. affected Hamlet's death?