Dead
King Hamlet Senior is ______ before the play begins
Horatio. He's not fully there, he doesn't trust the guards. Half heartedly
Here physically but not mentally or emotionally. Doesn't take long to change his mind
A piece of him" is said by who
Said by Horatio. Short for forbode. If the dead is being seen something bad is going to happen. A ghost just doesn't show up unless it has a reason.
This bodes some strange eruption to our state
King Claudius said it.
Mirth=Happy
Dirge=deep sadness
Making a point that the circumstances that caused him to marry his brothers wife it's sadness because of reason why. Mirth in funeral-hamlet is in a better place, celebrate his life, (maybe happy about
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.
King Claudius -cousin :family member and now step son. Family
But now, my cousin Hamlet and my son
Said by Hamlet. He says it in an aside (something that only audience hears, other characters don't hear it) Hamlet is not happy. He is a little more than distant family and more family to him than he would like. More than uncle and nephew. Kind is short f
A little more than kin and less than kind.
Said by Hamlet, being wise that he is in the sun and is saying he's happy. I'm too close to Claudius, too much your son.
I am too much in the sun
Said by Hamlet. He emphasizes that he will not go to school to respect his mother wishes not for Claudius purposes.
I shall in all my best obey you, madam.
Hamlet, weakness is women the most important women in his life is so weak that she didn't even mourn his father and moved on. That she is unfaithful
Frailty, thy name is woman.
Hamlet. He is sarcastic the events so cold you can take left over food and serve it at the funeral
The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage
tables.
Polonius
this above all: to thine own self be true
Ophelia
I shall obey my lord
Marcellus
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
Laertes in France
Polonius asks renaldo to spy on who
Polonius, lie about laertes to find the truth
By indirections find directions out
Hamlet, he doesn't care if he dies.
I do not set my life at a pins fee
Ophelia
Laertes sister is
Polonius
Laertes father is
Claudius trusted advisor
Who is polonius
-king hamlet won and gained the land
- the old King Fortinbras is bedridden
-Fortinbras son is prince and wants to assemble an army to get land that was lost to Denmark without his uncle, The now king, knowledge.
King Hamlet fought with King Fratinbras of Norway and what happened
Hamlets friend and confidant
Who is Horatio
Gertrude
What is Hamlets mother's name
France
Where does Laertes go to school
Germany
Where does Horatio go to school
-the guards see a ghost who they thing is king Hamlet and try to speak to it
-it does no speak and appears in armor
-the guards seek out Horatio
-Horatio doesn't believe at first but then witness it
- the scene ends with the decision to talk to hamlet and
In act 1 scene 1 what happens
Claudius wants peace with Norway, and the king of Norway is unaware that his nephew is trying to wage war
In act 1 scene 2 Claudius sends two messengers Cornelius and voltemand and what is the message
Yes because he is aware that polonius have his son permission to go
Laertes wants the kings blessing to go back to France does he receive is
Queen Gertrude, she tells her son to get over it, it's the natural progression of life
Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off,
And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
Do not forever with thy vail�d lids
Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.
Said by Hamlet and he is telling his mother that even without the outward appearance he really is sad and not easy to deal with and that she is focusing on his outward appearance too much
These indeed "seem,"
For they are actions that a man might play; But I have that within which passes show, These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
For your intent In going back to school in Wittenberg, It is most retrograde to our desire,
And we beseech you, bend you to remain Here in the cheer and comfort of our eye, Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son.
King Claudius tells hamlet to get over his fathers passing and what does he say about Hamlets wishes to go back to school in Wittenberg
Hamlet emphasizes that he will only remain because of his mother's wishes alone
I shall in all my best obey you, madam
Said by Hamlet and he is contemplating suicide but because the Bible says it's wrong he won't, it's the one sin you can't be forgiven for
O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God, God, How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Hyperion to a satyr"
A Hyperion is a Saturn god and a satyr is a man with horse/ gats body
What analogy does hamlet use to compare his father and uncle
Yes
Does hamlet believe Horatio when he speaks of the ghost
Said by Hamlet and it could be something else he wonders if he could be sure it is his father
If it assume my noble father's person,
Ophelia
Who is the love interest of hamlet
-his brother Claudius killed him. It was given out that a serpent stung him,but that sergeant wears a crown, Claudius put poison in his ear that made his blood curtle
-ghost asks hamlet to get revenge for the murder. He interprets it as to kill his uncle
What does Hamlets fathers ghost tell us
No but he makes them swear on a sword to not say a word about the ghost
Does hamlet tell Horatio and Marcellus what the ghost said
Before Laertes leaves for France, he warns Ophelia not. To fall for hamlet because his passions will change
-Ophelia promises but tells him to listen to his own advice
-Polonius enters, scolds his son for taking so long, then immediately starts giving him
In act 1 scene 3 What is the summary
-bitter cold ramparts, Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus keep watch. Meanwhile, from inside the castle they hear the roar of revelry. Hamlet condemns Claudius's constant merry-making, saying that it makes the noble Danes look "swinish" and corrupt.
-the ghos
What is the summary of a t 1 scene 4
Said by the ghost of hamlet, Things eliminated from the King Hamlets life. This was taken away with the poison. This particular murder is heinous. Brother killing brother. The act of murder not only took his life, but the brother got his crown and his wif
Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatched.
Said by ghost
The ghost is there during the night and during the day goes to a place during the day. He can't describe it it's not for human ears. It's terrible. He is in purgatory, which is a painful place. Reason in purgatory because he died with sins o
Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled
Said by ghost. Ghost will not see him for a while. This is a goodbye. The ghost wants to leave hamlet with the need to avenge his death. The last line the ghost uses.
Adieu adieu adieu. Remember me
Said by Hamlet. This man his uncle can pretend to love him and pretend to care for him and wants to be accepted as his new father. The deception the smiling hamlet is emphasizing that his uncle is a villain and villainy comes in different forms and this i
That one may smile and smile and be a villain
Said by Hamlet Tables is short for tablet. Symbolically he is writing it. Globe= brains. He is repeating what the ghost and imprinting what he said and writing it on his brain.
My tables my tables this is my meat I set it down.
They are swearing two things. 1.) to not tell anyone about the ghost. 2.) "antic disposition" he is going to put on a crazy unstable position. He is going to pretend to be crazy and they have to swear that they think he is actually crazy that they don't k
What are the two things Marcellus and Horatio are swearing to when they swear on the sword
sooner die than break the promise
- swearing in presence of God.
A mans word was his bond ins Shakespeare's time
At first Horatio and Marcellus did not want to swear on the sword why?
� She is upset because Hs tells him Hamlet came to see her and he was acting strangely didn't speak , but he was very off-putting . He was discombobulated with his dress. "He took me by the wrist" he went out of the doors without help. He just stares at h
� what information does Ophelia share with her father. How does polonius react ?
Hamlets old friends and the king and queen thought they could bring him out of his depression. They want them to bring him back. The king wonders what else is making Hamlet act mad. See if not only you can cheer Hamlet up but figure out why Hamlet is acti
� scene 2 the focus shifts back to Claudius. The king makes it clear that Hamlets behavior has been most disturbing. He is referring tot he mourning, which also is the implication that he is acting unstable. Rosencratz and Guildenstern were
to spy and get information, but the king cloaks it with we care about Hamlet. The queen asks them to spend time with them for a while and they will be rewarded for the time. Pretend concerned for hamlet by Claudius.
� The theme of spying by underhanded wa
Why are rosencrantz and Guildenstern here
� Voltemand says he spoke tot he king and he was apologetic and stopped his nephew from attacking Denmark and out their resources to the real war which between Norway and Poland. The king of Norway is asking Claudius if he would give permission to allow t
what information is shared with the king regarding the Norway situation?
Said by polonius ironic said as he is babbling on and going in circles. The queen asks him to be brief. He starts reading a love letter from Hamlet to Ophelia. Even reading the letter he can't get through the letter without interrupting. The queen asks if
brevity is the soul of wit
Said by Gertrude
More matter, with less art.
Said by Polonius if he is wrong then Claudius can take his head. He 100% believes he is right for why hamlet is acting mad.
Is polonius right ? - no he is wrong
This shows polonius to not only devious and over bearing but foolish.
Take this from this, if this be otherwise.
Said by Hamlet. Hamlet says he is a fisherman who sells fish. Monger means obsessed with it.
1.) Hamlet is just spewing nonsense
2.) hamlet's madness always has a purpose. It is insulting to put him in the same category as a slippery cold fish. Hamlet is
You are a fishmonger
Uses word the conception to that. Said by Hamlet. He is telling polonius that if he lets his daughter out hamlet will get her pregnant. Hamlet has fun.
Let her not walk in the sun.
Said by polonius. Polonius recognizes to some degree Hamlets purpose.
Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.
Said by Hamlet. How this is true for just about every character in this play? For Ophelia it's literal, for Hamlet it's his own mind, Claudius becomes paranoid, Gertrude is a victim. This line is filled with meaning.
Denmark's a prison.
Hamlet sees right through them. Hamlet tells them he knows they were sent. It didn't take long for hamlet to get them to confess they were sent. We are introduced to the players. The players are coming to Elsinore (name of castle). They want to cheer him
Page 101 What does Hamlet get Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to do here?
Hamlet is genuinely concerned about the children. He wonders what happens to the kids. Hamlet is extremely coherent here and much like himself, he broke out of the madness. (It's like Shakespeare is speaking to us because Shakespeare had concern for child
What concern about the players does Hamlet express to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
Said by Hamlet to rosencrantz and Guildenstern. I'm a crazy depending on the way the wind blows the wind determines which way he will be. He is saying that he can turn on and off his madness. Telling rosencrantz and Guildenstern through use of windmill me
I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
The prince cares about the actors and cares about the plays and can recite the speech. The power of the play is a theme here. The speech is that or mythology
Priam- king of Troy
Hecuba- queen of Troy
Pyrrhus- son of Achilles
Pyrrhus tried to push himself
What is the subject of the speech Hamlet begins to recite and asks the player to finish?
Dost thou hear me, old friend? Can you play "The Murder of Gonzago"? The player says yes and Hamlet asks if he gives a 16 line speech would they perform the play with the added speech in the ends night, the player says yes.
As the players leave, what request does Hamlet make of the first player?
Said by Hamlet , Hecuba was nothing to this actor yet in describing her pain he gets so into it he starts to react and cry. Hecuba can also represent the contrast to Gertrude, who didn't seem upset at it by all, yet Hecuba was upset. Crying parallels acti
What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, that he should weep for her?
The play's the thing/Wherein I'll
catch the conscience of the king."
Hamlet will have a play performed that is so realistic, Murder of Gozango and the play will enact how the ghosts aid his father was killed. Hamlet will watch Claudius and if he reacts in
How does Hamlet plan to use the players to his advantage?