Denmark, Elsinore castle | Where does it take place? |
1 am- North Star | What time is it when they see Old Hamlet’s ghost?How is time told? |
Marcellus, Barnardo, Francisco | Danish guard |
Dead Old Danish King Hamlet | Ghost of who? |
Horatio, Hamlet | Who are scholars? |
Norway | Who has Denmark been in conflict with lately? |
2 | How many times does the ghost enter? |
dead fathers | similarity between Young Fortinbras and Young Hamlet |
Hamlet | Horatio and Marcellus want to tell who about the ghost? |
no | Does the ghost speak? |
-personal issues (grieving death/marriage)-Official business of Norway and dealing with Young Fortinbras | 2 topics Claudius takes up in his long speech |
Old Norway (Uncle of Young Fortinbras) | present ruler of Norway |
H/H: Laertes wants to return to France because duty is done, but not the right time to askP/K: aspects of good and bad kingship shown in Claudius | Themes shown on pg. 11-12Laertes asking Claudius about leaving |
Because Laertes is almost higher in power than Queen Gertrude | Why does Claudius say Laertes should not hesitate to ask him anything? |
Polonius | Lord Chamberlain’s right hand man |
yes | Claudius grants Laertes request? |
Oxymoron | “defeated joy””with mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage” |
stop mourning, too long | Gertrude says to Hamlet about father |
A/R: just seems like grieving or actually | Hamlet to Gertrude about “Seems madam? Nay it is. I know not seems” What theme? |
-unmanly grief-impatient mind-stubborn | Claudius to Hamlet about grief |
Hamlet | Claudius says who will inherit throne |
return to school | Claudius and Gertrude tell Hamlet to not do what |
suicide | what does Hamlet’s first soliloquy say |
unweeded garden | two word metaphor in 1st soliloquy |
Claudius/Gertrude | who does hamlet hold responsible for horribleness of his world |
… | what does Hamlet mean about not being like Hercules |
yes | does hamlet suspect foul play with seeing his dad’s ghost |
Hamlet Act 1
August 10, 2019