Crazy Characters
Who is King Claudius?
Moor
What is barren land?
Where Polonius hides to listen in on Hamlet's conversation with Gertrude
What is behind a tapestry?
In this scene, a character is killed as a result of spying, a private confrontation between Hamlet and Gertrude reveals moral corruption, and a supernatural figure appears to remind Hamlet of his larger mission of revenge.
What is Act 3, Scene 4 of Hamlet?
"Heaven’s face does glow/O’er this solidity and compound mass/With heated visage, as against the doom/Is thought-sick at the act."
Instructs his daughter to follow a very important rule that eventually will have influence on Hamlet's actions
Who is Polonius?
Rhapsody
What is jumble?
Why Claudius sends Hamlet to England, along with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
What is Claudius was disturbed by Hamlet's madness and didn't think it was safe to keep him in Denmark?
Hamlet attempts to show his mother the corruption of her marriage by holding up this metaphorical object, telling her she can see her innermost guilt reflected in it.
What is a glass? (mirror)
"These words like daggers enter in mine ears"
What is Simili?
Revulsion towards Gertrude's remarriage reveals less about her actions and more about how his unresolved dependency and ego-wounded grief
Who is Hamlet?
Enseamed
What is greasy?
The reason Hamlet did not kill Claudius
What is going on in this scene when Hamlet, hearing a noise behind the arras, says “How now, a rat? Dead for a ducat, dead,"?
What is Hamlet mistakenly kills Polonius, thinking he is Claudius?
"Forgive me this my virtue/For, in the fatness of these pursy times/Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg/Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good."
What is Metaphor?
Depends on the counsel of Polonius and Claudius when dealing with Hamlet, showing that they often act through advice rather than independently
Who is Queen Gerturde?
Ectasy
What is a madness?
"Up sword, and know thou a more horrid hent."
What is go away sword, wait for a more horrid moment to kill him?
Hamlet means this when telling Gertrude, “I must be their scourge and minister” after killing Polonius.
What is Hamlet says he must act as both punisher and moral guide toward Polonius and Gertrude?
"See what a grace was seated on this brow/Hyperion’s curls, the front of Jove himself/An eye like Mars’ to threaten and command/A station like the herald Mercury"
What is Mythological Allusion and/or Similie?
This character's first major decision in the play is actually not their decision at all
Who is Ophelia?
Gib
What is tomcat?
"Whereto serves mercy but to confront the visage of offence"
(What is) What is the purpose of God's mercy if not to forgive the sinner?
“Such an act / That blurs the grace and blush of modesty, / Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose / From the fair forehead of an innocent love.”
What is Hamlet saying that Gertrude’s marriage to Claudius corrupts virtue and destroys the natural goodness of her previous love for his father?
"heart with strings of steel/Be soft as sinews of the newborn babe"
What is Alliteration?