Symbolism
This famed symbol is used to kill Hamlet Sr. in the ear because it reveals how thoughts and words can be deadly (as they are heard).
What is poison?
Who is Hamlet speaking to when he says: "You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal - except my life, except my life, except my life.
Who is Polonius?
What fueled Hamlet's madness and drove him to seek revenge on the man who killed him?
What is his fathers death?
How many scenes are in Act 4?
What is 7 scenes?
Where Hamlet disappears to for a couple scenes.
What is England?
In the final act what represents decay and the eventual end of life.
What is a skull?
Who is Ophelia talking about when she says: "O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!"
Who is Hamlet?
What does Polonius suggest Hamlet's madness results from?
What is Ophelia's rejection of him?
who did Hamlet kill behind the curtain in act 3?
who is Polonius?
What was Hamlet reading?
What is "word, words, words."
The gravediggers conversation with Hamlet is meant to reveal insight on this.
What is mortality?
Who is Hamlet talking to when he says: "Dost thou come here to whine? To outface me with leaping in her grave? Be buried quick with her, and so will I.
Who is Laertes?
Who in the play had displayed some type of madness by marrying her dead husband's brother?
Who is Gertrude?
what does hamlet see in act 1 scene 5?
what is his fathers ghost?
What specific phrase does Hamlet use to describe his "madness"
What is an antic disposition?
The thing that comes when the ghost leaves a scene, but also the word that describes Hamlet's relationship to the ghost.
What is the sun/son?
Who says the quote: "It was the very day that Hamlet was born - he that is mad, and sent into England."
Who is the Gravedigger?
Whether in madness or grief, who killed hamlet?
Who is Laertes?
Who dies in the last act?
Who is Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, and Hamlet?
Did Ophelia commit suicide? If so, why? (open response)
What do Ophelia's flowers symbolize?
What is lost innocence and fragility
Who said this quote: "By heaven, they madness shall be paid with weight till our scale turn the beam!"
Who is Opehlia?
While grieving and singing, who drowned as a result of their own madness?
Who is Ophelia?
What is said in the first line of Act 1 Scene 1
What is "Who's there?"
Was Hamlet really mad? (open response)
open response